Plan of the Township of Howard, County of Kent - F 501-1-0-0-14
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives149085
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Archives of Ontario - Thomas Talbot fonds, F 501
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- cartographic material
- Date Range
- 1816
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Description Level
- Item
- Item Number
- F 501-1-0-0-14
- GMD
- cartographic material
- Date Range
- 1816
- Physical Description
- 1 plan ; 96 x 58.5 cm
- Scale
- 1 inch equals 40 chains
- Scan Resolution
- 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Digitized copy of an original survey plan of the Township of Howard, County of Kent, registered November 30, 1816, Port Talbot, Mahlon Burwell, Deputy Surveyor. Scale 1 inch equals 40 chains. Includes Talbot Road (north and south) Lots 77-102, with annotations showing names of grantees resident on these lots. Named geographic and cultural features shown in this plan include Lake Erie; Thames River; False River; "Old Beaver Dam"; footpaths marked "Indian Path", "Path to Chatham" (shown extending from Lake Erie northwest to the boundary between Howard and Harwich Townships) and "Path Travelled to Arnold's Mills" (shown extending from Lake Erie in a northeasterly direction). Talbot Road is shown but not named. The future site of the Town of Ridgetown is shown (as yet unnamed, and not separated or laid out). Two large tracts are outlined in gray ink and marked "Clergy" and in red ink and marked "Crown", indicating Clergy and Crown reserves respectively.
- Name Access
- Archives of Ontario
- Talbot, Thomas
- Kent (Ont. : County)
- Howard (Ont. : Township)
- Talbot Road
- Burwell, Mahlon, 1783-1846
- Subject Access
- Maps
- Surveying
- First Nations
- Repro Restriction
- The records digitized and made accessible through this site remain the exclusive property of the Archives of Ontario. Use of these records is for research and private study only. Requests for reproduction of the records presented on this site must be directed to the Archives of Ontario: reference@ontario.ca
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