1904 Map of the County of Halton, Showing Proposed County Good Roads System, Marked in Red
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Type
- Maps
- Description
- This 1904 Map of Halton County was issued with compliments of the Milton based Higginbotham Drug Company. Heritage Services, Halton Region has provided this full scan of the map to replace and improve the Trafalgar Township map section originally shown in this record.
The large map shows the four Halton Townships: Nassagaweya, Esquesing, Nelson and Trafalgar. The "County Good Roads System, marked in red" appears to be: from east to west; what is now the Queen Elizabeth Way from Trafalgar Road west to Bronte Road, Dundas Street west right through to Wentworth County, and Steeles Avenue from Peel County west to Wentworth County. Going south to north, it looks like Trafalgar Road is coloured all the way north up through Esquesing Township as is Bronte Road. (These are the present day, year 2020, road names.)
The Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk rail lines are visibly marked. The map also shows the township Lot and Concession numbers. I do not know what the "X"'s on some lots refer to; some have numbers such as "X3" OR "X8", my guess is the houses at a location. Might the triangles mark a church?
Click on "Full Image" below the map for a larger image.
Milton Historical Society has provided information about the Higginbotham Drug Store in their internet records. The drug store was located in Milton. People in Trafalgar Township tended to also go to Milton for shopping, banking or medical services.
Alfred Higginbotham was the proprietor in 1904. Milton Historical Society has posted a photograph of young men including Alf, taken in 1890. He married Gertrude Robertson in Milton in July 1894. Alf was a Reeve of Milton in 1907. Another internet record of a 1913 Acton Free Press article explains that the switchboard had just been moved from the Higginbotham drug store.
Use Halton Images to find these Milton Historical internet records: http://images.halinet.on.ca/search - Notes
- Thank you to Halton Region, Heritage Services for this colour scan of the full map.
- Inscriptions
- Map of the County of Halton, showing proposed County Good Roads System, marked in red.
Compliments of Higginbotham Drug Co.
Map of Halton County, 1904. - Date of Original
- 1904
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Higginbotham, Alfred. Married Gertrude Robertson in Milton in July 1894.
- Local identifier
- TTRMW000766
- Collection
- Trafalgar Township Historical Society
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- 1904 Trafalgar Township Map
- Contact
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Trafalgar Township Historical Society Sponsor: Jeff Knoll, Local & Regional Councillor for Oakville Ward 5 – Town of Oakville/Regional Municipality of Halton
