Archives Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1994.54.1 |
Object Name |
Survey, Land |
Title |
Land Survey, Guelph Carpet and Worsted Spinning Mills, Bowman, Black and Shoemaker, 1927 |
Date |
31 January 1927 |
Year Range from |
1927 |
Year Range to |
1927 |
Description |
Land survey of the Guelph Carpet and Worsted Spinning Mills property at the corner of Cross and Neeve Streets, surveyed and drawn by E.P, Bowman, dated to 1927. Map depicts the lots (62, 69-75, 83-87, 89-92, 175) owned by the Guelph Carpet Mills, and the surrounding streets and names. The map features Cross, Margaret, Ontario, Queen, Howitt, Crawford, and Neeve Streets, and a bridge that crosses the Speed River at Neeve Street. The Guelph Carpet Mill lots are outlined in red ink and the lots are individually numbered. The bottom right corner has "5A, 3" written in yellow pencil and on the back in pencil "Bowman 1927." |
Notes |
Mapmaking is an ancient, global, and subjective practice. Maps can help us to understand land relationships over time. It is important to understand why a specific map was made, whose interests it reflected, and how it was intended to be used. These understandings are shaped by knowledge of the land from diverse perspectives, past, present, and future. Historical Context: Early Indigenous navigational maps of the place we now call Canada were drawn on impermanent materials, accompanied by verbal descriptions and committed to memory. Landmarks were accentuated to aid travellers and scale was often measured by time (such as, a day's journey). In about 1502, European mapmakers depicted the east coast of Newfoundland as an island in the North Atlantic. World maps skewed the size and shape of continents and used colour to symbolize colonial powers. The first surveyors measured and marked plots of land - taken, traded, granted, or sold - often naming the landholders on the map. Today, the science and practice of mapmaking documents the topography of the landscape in fine detail, through aerial photography, sensors, satellites, and global positioning/information systems (GPS/GIS). |
People |
Bowman, E.P. |
Search Terms |
Bowman, Black and Shoemaker Crawford Street Cross Street Guelph Carpet and Worsted Spinning Mills Howitt Street Margaret Street Neeve Street Ontario Street Queen Street |
Subjects |
MAPS INDUSTRY & TRADE |
Dimensions |
27.17/17.13 - Length/Width |
Collection |
Archives |