Plan of the town of Guelf, Upper Canada, founded by the Canada Company 1827

Description

Printed map. Visual scale, "16 Chains to an Inch." In lower margin, "Reduced by F. Cattlin. Engraved by J.&C. Walker." Described in Winearls, Mapping Upper Canada 1780-1867, entry 1395, p. 311: "In Joseph Bouchette, British Dominions in North America (London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley 1831), I:opp 118.., and in a later ed (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman 1832)...; appears to be a reduced and simplified version of the Ingrey plan...; shows market ground and bldg, St Patrick Square, 'general burying ground', three churches; Clarence Place; Woolwich and Waterloo Sts; Tiffany's plan of May 1827 appears not to have survived, but Bouchette's plan is referred to an as accurate version of it...." Donated by Dr. Karl Freeman, Hamilton, March 1995.