Title of Dataset: Toronto Sewer System 1835-1924
 
Date of Dataset: 1835-1924
 
Geography covered: Former cities of Toronto,York, North York, Scarborough, Etobicoke, and Borough of East York
 
Nominal Scale:  
 
Type of Data: Vector
 
Geographic Referencing: Grid System: 3 Degree and 6 Degree
Map projection: Decimal Degrees or Transverse mercator
Horizontal datum: NAD27
Vertical datum: unknown
Horizontal Accuracy: Linear features are within 2.5m of the centreline of construction.
Other features are relative to the linear features.
Vertical Accuracy: N/A
 
Format: Shapefile / geodatabase feature class
 
Formal Metadata:  Not yet available.
 
Description of Dataset: Original file :Toronto street centerline file geocoded by year according to Goad Atlas maps. Arcs are coded bysewer construction year. Shapefiles output by select year and ranges as well as those identified as trunk sewers.
Sewers_1835-1855.shp      Sewers_1884.shp
Sewers_1856-1884.shp      Sewers_1891.shp
Sewers_1885-1890.shp      Sewers_1901.shp
Sewers_1891-1900.shp      Sewers_1910.shp
Sewers_1901-1910.shp     
Sewers_1911-1920.shp
Trunk_Sewers_1910.shp
Trunk_Sewers_1909-1910.shp      Trunk_Sewers_1912_1913.shp
 
Creator of Dataset: GEORIA Toronto
Method of Creation | Sources:

Coded the above toronto streetfile by year of sewer construction
Field Name - SEWERS_YR.

Brace, C. (1993) One Hundred and Twenty Years of Sewage. The Provision of Sewers in Toronto 1793-1939. Master of Arts thesis, Dept of Geography, University of Toronto.

City of Toronto, City Engineer's reports
1880 - Appendix. Abstract of Sewers Constructed in the years 1875, '76, '77, '78, '79 and '80.
1859 -Appendix Schedule NO. 5 - Local Improvements
1861, 1870, 1876, 1877- (previous year Expenditure) - Local Improvement Account (ie Dale Street Sewer)
1878 - Appendix G. Table Shewing the Locality, Length, Size and Cost of all Sewers Constructed, 1878.
1879 - Appendix K. Table Shewing the Locality, Length, Size and Cost of all Sewers Constructed, 1879
1881 - Appendix E. Table Shewing the Locality, Length, Size and Cost of all Sewers Constructed, 1880.
1882 - Appendix E. Table Shewing the Locality, Length, Size and Cost of all Sewers Constructed, 1881.
1883 - Appendix . Schedule 3 - Table Shewing the Locality, Length, Size and Cost of all Sewers Constructed, 1882
1884 - Appendix K. Abstract of Sewers constructed during the year 1883
1885 - Appendix C . Total list of all dimensions constructed during the year ending December, 1884
1886 - Appendix C . Total list of all dimensions constructed during the year ending December, 1885. Appendix D . Total List of Sewers in Toronto to Date.
1887 - Appendix A . Total list of all dimensions constructed during the year ending December, 1886
1888 - Appendix B . List of sewers all dimensions constructed during the year ending December, 1887
1889 - Detail Statement of Receipts and Disbursements, year end. Local Improvememts - Sewers (ie - Admiral Road Sewer. Lowther Ave to Bernard Ave)
1890, 1895- Appendix - Sewers build by day labour (table fields: street, from, to, Size, Description, Length, Av Depth, Soil, Total Cost)
1891 - Works Dept Sewer Engineer's report - Sewers built by contract, 1890
1892 - Works Dept Sewer Engineer's report - Sewers built by contract, 1891
1893 - Works Dept Sewer Engineer's report - Sewers built by contract, 1893
1899, 1900- Appendix C - Detailed statement of Local Improvement Expenditures
1900 - Schedule "A" - Sewers Constructed During the Year 1900
1901 - Schedule "A" - Sewers Constructed During the Year 1901
1902 - Table No. 1 " - Sewers Constructed During the Year 1902
1903 - Table No. 1 " - Sewers Constructed During the Year 1903
1904 - Table No. 1 " - Sewers Constructed During the Year 1904
1905 - Table No. 1 " - Sewers Constructed During the Year 1905
1906 - Table No. 1 " - Sewers Constructed During the Year 1906
1907 - Table No. 1 " - Sewers Constructed During the Year 1907
1908 - Table No. 1 " - Sewers Constructed During the Year 1908
1909 - Table No. 1 " - Sewers Constructed During the Year 1909
1910 - Table No. 1 " - Sewers Constructed During the Year 1910
1911 - Table No. 1 " - Sewers Constructed During the Year 1911
1913 - 1918- Schedule "A" - Sewers Contructed
1919 - Appendix C - Sewer Section

Status: Complete.
Date of Completion/Revision: 11/06/2003
 
Original Sources for Dataset 

    Title of Original Source:

 Tor_centreline
Original Dataset Description Page http://mercator.geog.utoronto.ca/georia/datasum/dataset_centreline_ORIG.htm

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    Copyright Owner:

 GEORIA
 
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Interactive Mapping Page: http://mercator.geog.utoronto.ca/georia/toronto.html