Goad's Fire Insurance Map 1912 (georectified)

This map shows the location, building materials and footprint of buildings; the original water line where it differs from the 1912 shoreline; some proposed developments; electoral wards; legal land descriptions; lot sizes; street and lane widths; and old street names that had been recently changed. In 1912, Vancouver, Point Grey and South Vancouver were three separate municipalities District Lot 301 and Hastings Townsite had both been annexed by the City of Vancouver in 1911. All three municipalities are included in the map, but Stanley Park was not included. The original paper map includes a third volume which covers New Westminster: this volume is not included in the dataset. Data Access The digitized maps are available in ECW and TIFF format. Links to individual tiles are available from the map view. Alternately you can download a single zipped ECW file of the entire mosaic map (1.07 GB) . Attributes Please see page Understanding Goad's fire insurance map. Coordinate system The map showing the location of individual tiles is in WGS84. The ECW and TIFF files are projected in UTM Zone 10, NAD83 (CSRS). Note This map is in the public domain. Fire insurance maps are created to…

Publisher

City of Vancouver

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2020-11-19