Plan of York Harbour

Description

Printed map. "By Josh. Bouchette." "J. Walker Sculpt." "Augst. 12th 1815." Visual scale, [60 mm=100 chains]. Described in Winearls, Mapping Upper Canada 1780-1867, entry 2013(4), p. 414: "In Joseph Bouchette, Topographical Description of the Province of Lower Canada (London: W. Faden 1815), opp 605..., and in the French ed (Londres: W. Faden 1815), opp 627...; and in his The British Dominions in North America (London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley 1831), I:opp 88.., and in another ed (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman 1832), I:opp 88...; the outline of the shoreline and peninsula are similar to the Toronto inset on Bouchette's plan of L Ontario...; shows location of the schooner 'Anandaga' [Onondaga] as raised in late 1793; the stylized block outline for the town shows development to about 1797 and the garrison blockhouse on the east side of the creek (built 1797) is shown." Donated by Dr. Karl Freeman, Hamilton, March 1995.