Maps

The interest shown in the brief note on maps that appeared in the last Bulletin seems to call for some further mention of the subject. Government maps, in what is known as the National Topographic Series, may be purchased from the Hydrographic and Map Service, Labelle Building, Ottawa. This agency will also furnish indexes to the various sheets.

Ontario, of special interest to members of this Society, 1s rather well represented. Sheets are available in the following scales: 8, 4, 2 and 1 mile to 1 inch. Not all areas are available in all scales or anything like it; they are apportioned somewhat as follows. Nearly the whole province, with the exception of the most remote north, is available in the 8 inch map. Three sheets for example cover the entire area from Montrea1 to Windsor. The 1 inch to 1 mile series, which give very complete details, are published tor the all settled areas, the banks of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers, the shore of Lake Ontario and for the whole region between Lakes Erie and Huron. They indicate absolutely everything and the more up-to-date ones can be relied on completely.

Generally speaking the 4 and 2 inch sheets are used for the areas that are settled, but not important enough to merit the larger scale.

For those that are interested in tracing the routes of former lines and in having an exact knowledge at trackage, these maps are a necessity. Much of the railway mileage of Ontario has passed through many different hands and it is only by the use of maps in connection with suitable histories that a clear picture may be gained. To quote an example: The Port Hope-Lindsay line of the Canadian National has been under four different ownerships since it was built.

Some suggested books for use with maps in this sort of study:

• Breithaupt, W.H.—The Railways of Ontario (Report, Ontario Historical Society, 1925, Toronto, 1925);
• Glazebrook, G.P.—THistory of Transportation in Canada, Toronto, 1938;
• Lovell's Gazetteer of British North America (later, of the Dominion of Canada), Montréal, 1873, 1881, 1895, 1908;
• Thompson, N. & Edgar, J .H.,—Canadian Railway Development, Toronto, 1933; and
• Wilgus, W.J.—The Railway Interrelations of the United states and Canada, New Haven, 1937.

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