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                                    1981X.231.1
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                                    Map
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                                    Title
                                
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                                    Map, Wellington County, 1861
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                                    1861
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                                    1861
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                                    Description
                                
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                                    Map of Wellington County, published by Guy Leslie and Charles J. Wheelack, in Orangeville, dated to 1861.    The map depicts the townships in Wellington County, with lots, street names and some businesses and homes of subscribers. The map was printed in black ink on paper by W.C. Chewett and Company in Toronto.
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                                    Notes
                                
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                                    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).
  Historic Context - Canada Company
  The Canada Company was chartered in 1825 as a land and colonization company based in London, England. In 1826, the company purchased from the British Crown about 2.5 million acres of land on the shores of Lake Huron in Upper Canada (modern-day Ontario). The Canada Company remained in operation until its last parcel of land was sold in the 1950s.
  Novelist and colonial promoter John Galt (1779-1839) was the first superintendent of the Canada Company. Galt arrived in Upper Canada in 1826 and founded Guelph on 23 April 1827. He was recalled to Britain in 1829 after conflicting with the Company's directors.
  Guelph was a planned town. Galt's original layout, with streets radiating from a single focal point, is still visible in Guelph's downtown core. Galt adopted the concept of a "planned town" in advance of general settlement in order to stimulate sales of agricultural land. He named Guelph after Britain's royal family, the Hanoverians, who were descended from the Guelfs. Guelph was first incorporated as a village in 1851, and then as a town in 1856.
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                                    People
                                
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Adams Allan, David (Sr.) (1808-1895) Allan, Michael Allan, William Amos, G. Amos, J. Amos, W. Anderson, T. Anderson, Thomas (Jr.) Anderson, Thomas (Sr.) Applegarth, William Arkell, Thomas Armstrong, George Armstrong, J. Armstrong, J.B. Armstrong, John Atcheson, William Atkinson Atkinson, George Atkinson, J. Atkinson, M. Atkinson, Thomas Baker, Richard Barber, S Barkley Bates Bates, A. Bates, James Benham, George Benham, William Best, Thomas Bilby, William Black, George Blythe, A.W. Bolton, Thomas Bolton, William Boulton, John Boyd, Robert Bright, H. Brodie, R.S. Brown, J. Brown, W.J. Bruce, George Bruce, John Brydon, Robert Buckham, George Budgeon, Benjamin Burns, Peter Caldwell, James Campbell, R. Caraher, Michael Card Card, John Card, Thomas Carroll, Bryan Carroll, Edward Carter, Henry Carter, James Carter, Joseph Carter, Thomas Carthew, Edward Cauldfield, John Chadwick, Frederick Jasper Chadwick, J. Chadwick, John Craven Chambers, James Champion, William Chipchase, William Clark, J. Clarke, William (Dr.) Cleghorn, James Cleghorn, Robert Cleghorn, William Clements, John Coghlin, Thomas Collins, Robert H. Cook, R. Cooper, T.W. Couling, L. Cowan Cowan, James Cowan, Walter S. Cowan, William A. Craig, Murdock Creighton, A. Creighton, William Cullen, Alfred Cullen, Patrick Cummins, Daniel Darby, William Dartnell, George Davidson, Charles Davis, Fred Davis, George Davis, John Day, J.W. Day, Thomas Dayman, P. Dean, Benjamin Decker, William Henry Devlin, Henry Diller, Joseph Dixon Dooly, Martin Drew, John Duggan, D. Dunbar, R. Dwyer Edwards, Silas Elliott, George Elliott, James Elliott, Robert Farrell, J. Ferguson, Adam Fergusson, Adam Johnston (A.J.) Fergusson, William Fife, George Fife, John (Sr.) Fife, William Fisher, Joseph Fisk, J. Fleming, G. Fletcher, Samuel Forbes, Frederick J.B. Foster, Henry Foster, John Fry, E.J. Fry, W.P. Fulton, James Fulton, W. Galbraith, Francis W. Gay, James George, Frederick Gibson, Thomas Gilles, John Gold, James Gordon, John Gow, Peter Graham Grange, George John (Sheriff) Green Green, J. Greet, Richard Grey, William Griffith, William Hamilton, Alex Hamilton, William Hans, John Hans, Thomas Harland, E.A. Harland, E.M. Harrod, John Hart, Michael Harvey, George Harvey, J. Harvey, John (Dr.) Hawes, Charles Hawes, George Hawes, John Hawsan, James Hawsan, Michael Hayes, George Heard, Henry Heard, J. Henry Heffernan, J. Heffernan, Thomas Hemming, E.F. Hemming, George Henderson, A. Henderson, T. Herbert, William Hern, William Hewatt, William Hewitt, M. Higinbotham, Nathaniel (Col.) Hinds, John Hinds, Ralph Hinds, Walter Hobson, Joseph Hodgkins, T. Hogg, John Hogge, Arthur Hood, George Hood, Gideon Hood, Thomas Hood, William Hook, John Hough, James Howitt, J. Howitt, John Hubbard, E. Hughes, Patrick Husband, James G. Hutchinson Hutchinson, Charles P.P. Iles, John Jackson, A.M. Jackson, Daniel Jackson, J. Jackson, Joseph Jackson, R. Jackson, T. Jackson, William Johnston, Robert Johnston, William Jones, Charles Jones, Robert Keating, Thomas Keeling, G.M. Keenan, Edward Keenan, Michael Keizer Keleher, D. Keleher, Patrick Kench, Thomas Kennedy, A.W. Kennedy, David Kennedy, J. Keough, James Kerr, F. Kerr, Francis Kerr, Robert Key, James Key, William King, Lewis King, Thomas Kingsmill, John Juchereau Kingsmill, Nicholas Knowles, Robert Laidlaw, James Laidlaw, John Laidlaw, Thomas Laird Leslie, John T. Lillie, George Lindsay, I. Lochrane, William Logan, John Logan, Thomas Logan, William Lowry, William Lynn Macdonald, Alexander Malloy, Phenton Manderson, James Manderson, John Marcon, F. Marriot, Henry Marsh, William Marshall, A. Marshall, James Martin, Anthony Martin, Edward R. Matthews, R. May, James Mayberry, F. Mayer, S. Mays, J. McBridge, Thomas McConnell McConochee McCorkindale, Archibald McCorkindale, John McCrae, John (not poet) McCuen, Sam McCuen, William McCullen, J. McCullouch, H. McDonald, Alexander McDonald, Evan McDonald, John Mcdonald, William McElderry, Charles A. McGarr, P. McGrogan, William McIntosh, Alex McIntosh, Angus McIntosh, John McIntosh, Robert McKenzie, Robert McNeil, John McWhort, J. Metcalf, G.B. Mickle, Charles J. Mickle, J. Mitchell, John Mitchell, Robert Monger, R. Moore, R.M. Moran, P. Morgan, J. Murphy, Patrick Murphy, William Neeve, John Neill, Joseph Neish, George Nesbit, T. Nesbitt, Hugh Nevills Newton, F. Nicholson, W. Norris, G. Norris, John (Sr.) O'Connor, T. O'Neil, Thomas Oliver, A. Oliver, John Oliver, Robert Orr, Robert Orton, Henry Sr. (Dr.) Owens, Samuel Owens, William Pallister, Richard Pallister, Thomas Palmer Palmer, Arthur (Rev.) Parker, Robert Parker, William Henry Parsons, Henry Paterson, John Paterson, William Patterson, George Patterson, R. Patterson, William Pearson, George Peterson, Henry W. Petty, John Pigot, Michael Pipe, John Piper, Stephen Porter, R. Porter, William Quarry, Andrew Quarry, George Quarry, William Racnemann, Theobald Reading, John Reading, Sam Reid, William Rennie, James Rennie, William Renny, John Richardson Richardson, G. Richardson, John Richardson, Robert Rife, Samuel Ritchie, Andrew Roths, Val Rudd, George Sallows, Benjamin Sallows, John Sanders, Henry Sandilands, Thomas Saunders, Thomas Willcocks Savage, David Schwendiman, C. Scott, James Scroggie, John Seifrid, John Seurr, R. Shone Shortreed, George Shortreed, John Shutt, Louis Shyne, T. Skae, E.E. Smith, John Snelling, George Spiers, John Spiers, Pringle Stewart, G.M. Stewart, John Stiffler, Casper Stiffler, Lewis Stone, Frederick William Suber, C.L. Sullivan, J. Summer, W.H. Sunley Sweetman, M. Taylor, James Taylor, John Thompson, E.V. Thompson, R.W. Thompson, William Thomson, John Thomson, R. Thorpe, James A. Thring, W. Thurtell Todd, George Tolton, Henry Tolton, John Traynor, J. Vale, Captain Valentine, T. Vance, Edward Vough Walker, Charles Walker, Ennis Walker, W. Walsh, Michael Walsh, Simon Watson, A. Watson, C.J. Watson, Charles Watson, Henry Watson, Thomas Webster, James (Sr.) Wellzer, George Wetherald, Thomas White, A. Whitelaw, Thomas Whitelaw, William Whiteside, George Willoughby, Charles Wilson Wilson, A. Wilson, George Wilson, H. Wilson, James Wilson, John Wilson, William Winstanley Worswick, Edward Wright, J. Wright, James G. Young, Henry Zimmerman, John 
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Albert Street Allan's Distillery Allan's Mill Alma Street American House Ann Street Armstrong (J.B.) Manufacturing Company Arnold Street Arthur Street Bank of Montreal Bay Street Bedford Street Berlin Road Birmingham Street Bridge Street Bristol Street British Hotel Brown (W.J.) and Company Grocers Budd Street Cambridge Street Canada Company Cardigan Street Charles Street Clarence Street Clarke Street Clinton Street Commercial Hotel Cork Street Court House Crawford Street Crimea Street Cross Street Day Street Derry Street Douglas Street Douglas Street Dublin Street Duke Street Dundas Road Durham Street Edinburgh Road Edwin Street Elgin Street Elora Street Eramosa Road Essex Street Fergus Street Ferguson and Kingsmill Barristers Fleet Street Foster Avenue Fountain Street Galt and Guelph Railway Galt and Guelph Railway Station Galt Street George Street Gladwin Street Glasgow Street Glasgow Street Gore Bank Grand Trunk Railway Grand Trunk Railway Grand Trunk Railway Station Grange Street Grant Street Guelph Grammar School Guelph Jail Guelph Mercury Hogg (John) Company Hood Grist and Saw Mill Hood Street Hooper Street Horsman Hardware Huskisson Street Inkerman Hotel Inkerman Street James Street John Street Kerr Street King Street Lemon and Peterson Barristers Liverpool Street London Road Macdonell Street Manchester Street Marcon Street Margaret Street Market Street Mary Street Mays (James) Fanning Mill Mercer Street Merion Street Metcalfe Street Mill Street Mitchell Street Mount Street Neeve Street Nelson Crescent Norfolk Street Northumberland Street Norwich Street Nottingham Street Omar Street Oxford Street Paisley Street Palmer and Winstanley Barristers Pearl Street Perth Street Pipe Street Powell Street Preston Street Princes Street Priory Street Quebec Street Queen Street Raglan Street Richardson Street Short Street Silver Creek Road Southhampton Street Spring Street St. Arnaud Street St. Bartholomew's Church St. George's Church Stevenson's Nursery Suffolk Street Sultan Street Surrey Street Sydenham Street Thorp Street Thurtell Street Tiffany Street Todd (George) and Sons Tinsmiths Toronto Street Waterloo Avenue Wellington County Wellington Street Woolwich Street Wyndham Street Yarmouth Street York Road Yorkshire Street 
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