1958 Map

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Folded Dimensions: 4.75" X 8.5"

Open Dimensions: 41 W X 25 H

Date Location: Front Cover & Legend

Cover Description: Green background with predominantly white lettering highlighted in red.  Colored drawing of bridges and vehicles - the upper half of the map portrays and modern bridge with a red sedan in a small circle.  The bottom half features the West Montrose, Ontario covered bridge with a horse drawn buggy in a small circle adjoining it.

Date Code: Non-Applicable

Southern Ontario Scale: 1" : 14 miles

Northern Ontario Scale: 1" : 28 miles

 

Main Legend Side Features: Map of Southern Ontario with legend, Index of Lakes, Index of Cities, Towns & Villages - (Southern Ontario).

Opposite Side Features: Close up maps of 40 communities (13 added over previous year), Map of Northern Ontario with legend, Mileage Tables, Illustrations of Regulatory Signs, Index of Cities, Towns and Villages - (Northern Ontario), Official Travel Information and Ontario Provincial Police Locations, St. John Ambulance First Aid Posts, What do to in case of an Accident.

 

Mileage Tables: Highways No.2  through to Highway No. 135 & Controlled Access Highways; QEW, 400, 401 & 402

Compiled By: C. P. Robins.

Prime Minister: Leslie M. Frost

Minister: Jas. N. Allan, Department of Highways

Deputy Minister: W. J. Fulton, Department of Highways

Other: Lithographed in Canada by Litho Print Ltd., Toronto

Map Folding Pattern: Click on Cover Below

North Arrow Used on This Map.

The West Montrose, Ontario covered bridge is in Waterloo

County on Woolwich Township Road 50, just south of

Regional Road 86 and is nicknamed the "Kissing Bridge" .

This 1959 Department of Highways photograph was the basis

for the illustration on the cover of the map.  Although the

bridge was shortened on the map cover - it is well

represented.

 

On Sunday, August 28, 1960 a provincial historical plaque

was unveiled commemorating this bridge - the last covered

bridge in Ontario.  (Ontario Archives)

The 401 is now completed or under construction from Port Hope in the east to Highway 25

 in the west in the Toronto portion.

Warning signs are now orange and black rather than yellow and black as in previous maps.

Highway 103 is under construction between Highways 12 and 69.

In an ongoing effort to promote safety on the roads - the Department of Highways

 inserted safety slogans for many years on their maps.  This is the collection from the

 1958 map.