Ontario Illustrated (1867-1968)

The province of Ontario is the most illustrated province in Cananda, and I've collected 26 examples of cartographers and illustrators doing it right. Of special note: Stanley Turner's incredibly professional map of Ottawa, Kingston, and surroundings, and Helen G Kemp's fantastic "Nineteen (Toronto) Libraries" from 1933. Oh, and note that you can actually find a little version of Turner at his easel in his eastern Ontario map—he drew himself in.

In this collection:

1. “Number of Street Cars and Vehicles 

in the Downtown District of Toronto” print
by the Civic Transportation Committee (1915)


2. "Nineteen (Toronto) Libraries" 
by Helen G. Kemp (1933)

3. "Bird's Eye View of Hamilton" 
print
by Herman Brosius (1876)

4. “Pictorial and Tourist Map of the City of Ottawa” 
print
by Ottawa's Industrial & Publicity Bureau (1940)


5. “Map of Sudbury Mining District” 
print
by J. Walter Evans (1900)


6. “City of Hamilton” 
print
by the Toronto Lithographing Co. (1894)

7. “Brading's Vacation Map of
the Ottawa Valley & Eastern Ontario” 
print 
by Stanley Turner (1946)


8. “Clearview Map (of) Sudbury” 
print
by Vernon-Might (1931)



9. “Bird's Eye View of Brockville” 
print
by Herman Brosius (1874)

10. “City of London” 
print
by the Toronto Lithographing Co. (1893)


11. “City of Sarnia” 
print
by Graphic Publishers Canada (1955)


12. “Galt (Cambridge) Ontario” 
print
by Pathfinder Air Surveys Ltd. (1961)

13. “Clearview Map (of) Brantford” 
print
by Vernon-Might (1931)

14. "Bird's Eye View of London" 
print
by Eli Sheldon Glover (1872)

15. "Birds Eye View of the City of ... Sarnia" print
by Albert Ruger (1867)


16. "Birds-Eye View of Toronto" 
print
by Peter Alfred Gross (1876)


17. “Bird's Eye View of Belleville” 
print
by Herman Brosius (1874)

18. "Kingston Ontario Experimental Photo Map" 
print
by the Department of National Defence (1968)



19. "Guidal Landowners' Map 
of the Township of Guelph" print
by Alfred E. Guidal (1917)


20. “Port Arthur (Thunder Bay)” print
by J. C. Young & R. J. Edwards (1885)


21. “City of Ottawa” 
print
by the Toronto Lithographing Co. (1895)


22. “Stratford: the Festival City” 
print
by Pathfinder Air Surveys Ltd. (1964)


23. “East Whitby Centennial Map” 
print (1967)

24. “Bird's Eye View of the City of Ottawa” 
print
by Herman Brosius (1876)


25. “Street Map and Reference
Guide of St. Catharines” print (1950)



26. “York 1834 Now Incorporated
as the City of Toronto” 
print
by Esther G. A. Foster (1934)


27. “Bird's Eye View of Peterborough” 
print 
by Herman Brosius (1875)


Original sources include the Archives de Montréal, the Association of Canadian Map Libraries & Archives, the Brock University Map, Data, and GIS Library, the Hastings County Historical Society, Library & Archives Canada, the Library of Congress, the McMaster University Libraries Digital Archive, Natural Resources Canada, Pathfinder Maps, the University of Milwaukee Wisconsin Map Collection, the University of Toronto Libraries Map & Data Library, Western University Library, and the York University Digital Library.

Each reproduction is available in one or two different sizes on Epson Enhanced Matte 192 gsm paper printed with Epson UltraChrome XD2 archival ink. Sold in an open edition, unframed.