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Surveyors Shaped our Landscape In due course this land along Dundas Street became more or less occupied and a further purchase was deemed expedient. Accordingly on October 17th, 1818, an agreement was made whereby a block of land reaching from the 2nd concession above Dundas Street to what is now Highway 9, and from the Etobicoke to the North West Line from Burlington was purchased. A new system of survey was instituted with the upper concession line above Dundas Street as the base line. The new concession lines paralleled the North West Line whereas the intersecting cross roads paralleled Dundas Street. A curious situation arises since Dundas Street actually runs 8 degrees to the south from a true south-west direction. Accordingly all road in Peel and Halton intersect at angles of 82 degrees and 98 degrees instead of right angles, and also all farm properties are laid out at these angles. For convenience these concession lines are spoken of as running north and south and the crossroads or sideroads as running east and west although actually the latter run more towards the south than west. However this has been the custom from earliest days since Dundas Street was always regarded as running east and west. Under this new survey the blocks between roads are about 266 rods wide and 600 rods north and south, or roughly 7/8 mile by1 7/8 miles instead of 380 rods by 420 rods as in the old survey, each block containing 1000 acres. This makes for farms more nearly square and hence more convenient for farm work. -Ben Case. A History and Atlas of the County of Halton, Halton District Women's Institute, c. 1962. p7