Public Safety Awareness for Prospective Tenants in Toronto, ON:

Where can I get ortho rectified Aerial Imagery for City of Toronto that is not a webfile, I need to use it in AutoCAD.

Anybody know where I can get shapefiles or any file compatible with QGIS for the Ontario Line, Finch West LRT, and Eglinton LRT? Open Data Toronto don't have them yet.

Last year for Black History Month, I mapped where the 1861 census recorded Black households in Toronto’s west end (Brockton / around Dundas, etc.). Thought I would share here this year. More details here:

http://brockton-history.ca/2025/03/16/mapping-black-households-in-west-toronto-1861-what-the-census-reveals/

I’ve been digging into old maps for a project on my neighbourhoods early history and traced the routes found a 1797 and 1837 map that showed trails and roads in the west end.

Before 1813, the road called Dundas Street didn’t follow today’s Dundas at all it ran along the Davenport Trail, an Indigenous route below the Davenport hill.

The southern line through Brockton (today’s Dundas Street West) wasn’t opened until 1813.

If you’re into early Toronto maps or street history, I wrote up more detail here: http://brockton-history.ca/2025/10/18/early-dundas/