Concession road
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In Upper and Lower Canada, concession roads were laid out by the colonial government through undeveloped Crown land to provide access to rows of newly surveyed lots intended for farming by new settler
Corner of 8th Concession and 18th Sideroad, King Township, Ontario
Single-front survey example (Ontario)
Double-front survey example (Ontario)
Sample survey size, Ontario Concession System
Eglinton Avenue
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Eglinton Avenue is a major east–west arterial thoroughfare in Toronto and Mississauga in Ontario, Canada. In the west, the street begins at Highway 407 at the western limits of Mississauga, as a conti
Concession road
…numbered East or West. In present-day Mississauga (which has two surveys – the 1,000-Acre Sectional and the 30 by 33+1⁄3 chain systems – divided by Eglinton Avenue) Kennedy Road is the former "First Line East" in the northern survey, and McLaughlin Road is the former "First Line West". The abbreviations "EHS" for…
Eglinton Avenue through Toronto and Mississauga (blue line)
Construction of Eglinton across the Don Valley gap in 1956, as seen from east of Brentcliffe Road
Eglinton Avenue East in Scarborough
Eglinton Avenue on a rainy day, with Canada Square and the Yonge Eglinton Centre