Ontario Road Maps - 1959 Map Details
1959 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: Features colored drawing of the Burlington Bay Skyway.  A dark blue area across the top of the cover has the word 'Ontario' in red with white highlighting.  A brown area across the bottom has the minister's names in white.

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), 'Ontario Highway First Aid System' information, 'What to do in case of an Accident' information and 'District Engineers Addresses & Telephone numbers'.

Opposite Side Features: Close up maps of 40 communities, 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.

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: Fred M. Cass, Department of Highways

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

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

Note: The first Burlington Bay Skyway was opened in 1958 and tolls were collected until the early 1970's when traffic congestion which resulted from the toll booths lead to their removal.

Map Folding Pattern: Click on Cover Below

North Arrow Used on This Map.


Construction of steel framework for Burlington Skyway using cranes, view along span of bridge - 1955   (Ontario Archives)

A Department of Travel and Publicity, Publicity Branch photograph of the Skyway bridge from 1958.  (Ontario Archives)

 

A Department of Travel and Publicity, Publicity Branch photograph of the underside of the Skyway from 1958.  (Ontario Archives)

Construction of the new skyway is proclaimed on the large billboard in the foreground - 1955. (Ontario Archives)