 Hey everyone, Adam Shaw here from Bravera Media Company. Today we've got another vintage map for you guys. It is a map of Toronto, Canada that was originally produced in 1901. This map is really, really great as it displays historical building location. It shows ferry distance. It shows ferry routes across the harbor. You've got geographical aspects marked such as marshland and rivers. This map is really great. We're going to dive in, zoom in and explore and examine this map. Before we do, let's give a history and background to the city of Toronto. Toronto is currently the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It has a population of roughly 2,700,000 and is one of the most populous cities in North America after Mexico City, New York and Los Angeles. If we look at the history of Toronto, we can see that when Europeans arrived in the area, the vicinity was inhabited by Iroquois Indians who really had displaced the original settlers, the Huron, which had occupied the area for as long back as centuries before the 1500s. The name Toronto is likely derived from the Iroquois word tech caronto, meaning place where trees stand in the water. This refers to the northern end of what is now Lake Simcoe, where the Huron had planted tree saplings to corral the fish. However, the word Toronto, meaning plenty, also appears in French lexicon of the Huron language in 1632. In the 1660s, the Iroquois established two villages within the area we know today as Toronto. The villages were Ganatasekha Gwagon on the banks of the Rouge River and Tiaegonon on the banks of the Humbur River. By 1701, the Misagwaga Indian tribe had displaced the Iroquois who abandoned the Toronto area at the end of the Beaver Wars. During the American Revolutionary War, the region saw an influx of British settlers as United Empire loyalists fled for British-controlled lands north of Lake Ontario. The new province of Upper Canada was in the process of creation and needed a capital. In 1787, the British Lord Dorchester arranged for the Toronto purchase with the Misaguas, thereby securing more than a quarter of a million acres of land in the Toronto area. Dorchester intended the location to be named, obviously, Toronto. By 1813, as part of the War of 1812, the Battle of York ended in Toronto's capture by U.S. forces. The surrender of the area led to U.S. soldiers destroying much of the garrisons and setting fire to parliament buildings during the five-day occupation. The destruction of York, a.k.a. Toronto, was a primary motivation for British troops to set fire to Washington, D.C. later in the war. In the 1830s, Torontoans integrated people of color into their society. The city's population of 9,000 people included many that were African-American slaves that escaped to Canada. The city was one of the more integrated and progressive areas throughout North America. An example of this can be seen by an 1840s eating house owner at Frederick and King Street who operated a thriving merchantile business and was also a man of color. The equality in the city was a prominent factor in Toronto's growth in that slavery had been banned outright in 1834. Coupled with the mass migration of immigrants, it made it a suitable city for people of different backgrounds to find a new and comfortable home. One of the major ethnic groups that really migrated to the city were the Irish, largely because of the potato famine and just the timing of the growth of Toronto. Another important element to Toronto's history deals with booze. Toronto became the largest alcohol distillation center in North America. The Gooderham and Worth's distillery operations became the world's largest whiskey factory by the 1860s. The spirits business facilitated and accelerated by Toronto's harbor which allowed for access to grain and sugar imports used for processing. So that's kind of just a little bit of background of the history of Toronto. Let's dive into this map and kind of explore and we have other maps too. This is a 2D overhead map, I mean it's just loaded with information. We look at some of the other maps. This gives you a bird's eye perspective. It's a little bit haggard and old but we've got street views of, remember we talked about that distillery? Here's the Gooderham and Worth's distillery. Kind of like a street view access to that location. And certainly we get some good details, some three dimensional aspects but this map is just too much in rough shape to really give it, I mean we've got some details and we can see where the ports are and the railways but I don't know, and a lot of these locations aren't labeled on here so we don't really, we can kind of compare it to the other maps. So for example we'll go to the 2D map and we'll look for that distillery. So remember we talked about that the Gooderham, I hope I pronounced that right, Gooderham and Worth's distillery. We can see that it's right here, it's located on this end of Toronto where it kind of harbors off into the marshland. If we zoom out we can see that it's generally in this area. It's hard to pick out exactly where it is. Let's actually look on the street, actually that'll help us. It looks like Trinity Street, right around Trinity Street. Let's see if we can find that on this map. See it's hard to read, oh we found Trinity Street right here, right here. So the distillery, look this place is actually labeled. I didn't think these were labeled, I haven't looked at this map extensively but there are. The distillery 5 is labeled, that's definitely the distillery right there. Where are these numbered on the key? See this is weird because this map should have a key and I think it's from a different page. Yeah, it must be on a different page, that's not included in this map. So this is the distillery right here, we used the other map to kind of conclusively identify these locations. So this is the distillery illustrated right here. I mean, this is an older map and I wish that there was a key on this but we just have to look at the other map. And certainly we saw that, remember we talked about the War of 1812 where the US troops came in and started burning facilities. Well, here's a garrison military, you could see military burying ground, we could see obviously that the burning buildings in 1812 and garrisons were right around this area and remember we talked also about the parliament buildings, not too far away. Here's a provincial parliament building very, very close to the garrisons. So we know that during the War of 1812, massive, from here to here, massive military conflict right here. Metal detectors and if you're metal detecting and you're able to get on some grounds or to look in this area, you might find some artifacts right around here, very close to the waterway between the garrison and the provincial buildings. I mean, there was just a lot of historical activity between these two locations. So we can see Old Fort right there. So that was an interesting thing that I wanted to bring up in this video. But this map obviously displays also other characteristics. We've got City Hall right there. We've got various police centers, even skating rinks. We've got a provincial lunatic asylum located here right very close to King Street. I mean loaded with information. Here's Trinity College, not too far away from the lunatic asylum. We've got many Trinity Square Department of Education up there by even close to Carleton Street. We've got different colleges, Knox College. Very cool map. We look at the harbor. We talked about how important the harbor was for transporting goods and bringing in sugar and processing for the distillery. We can see one of the main ports right here. This is the Victoria Park Fair. We can see all the different fairies coming in. We see lighthouses. A lighthouse is illustrated right here. Bads. Pretty cool. And we see distance. I think distance is marked on these ferry routes. Maybe I'm not ... Yeah, I guess ... Yeah, I mean they're showing you one mile on this half moon. So it gives you an idea. So very cool map that we have. We've got a jail located. Look at this, a jail just outside the city by Broadview, Broadview Ave. Broadview Ave. Very close to the river right here. River Darrell Park. We can see this is Marshland illustrated throughout here. So very cool map that we have. I hope you've learned something about this video, about the city of Toronto. If you enjoyed this video, definitely subscribe to our YouTube channel. We do videos like this all the time where we look at the history of a city, whether it be Toronto, Halifax, we look at the history of Canada, of different wars. We like history and we like maps. So if you like that sort of thing, definitely subscribe to our YouTube channel. Give us a like on this video. Leave a comment if you have any questions about the history of Toronto or you like this map. Leave a comment below, share this video and I will see you guys soon. Okay, take care. All right, bye.