@ckoerner it's a very griddy city. I rotated it so the east-west roads were horizontal and Yonge Street runs "Toronto North"
You can even (sort of) make out the glitch at Victoria Park Ave, where the original survey teams from the east and west met and were nowhere close, so every street has a bump at Vic Park
@hertz I forget where I heard that, and it's become part of my doxa regarding general Toronto weirdness.
The eastern survey is almost definitely from this 1791 map: Historical Maps of Toronto: 1791 Jones: An accurate Plan of a Survey [...] of the River Trent (head) [North shore] of Lake Ontario to Toronto — https://oldtorontomaps.blogspot.com/2013... This defines the lines that are now Queen Street and Victoria Park
You can even (sort of) make out the glitch at Victoria Park Ave, where the original survey teams from the east and west met and were nowhere close, so every street has a bump at Vic Park
The eastern survey is almost definitely from this 1791 map: Historical Maps of Toronto: 1791 Jones: An accurate Plan of a Survey [...] of the River Trent (head) [North shore] of Lake Ontario to Toronto — https://oldtorontomaps.blogspot.com/2013...
This defines the lines that are now Queen Street and Victoria Park