Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Fire insurance plans collection
General material designation
- Cartographic material
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the collection.
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Reference code
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
-
1890-1972 (Creation)
- Creator
- Charles E. Goad Company - Underwriters' Survey Bureau
Physical description area
Physical description
179 maps : fire insurance plans
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Administrative history
The Charles E. Goad map making company was established in Montreal, Quebec, in 1875. In its business of creating fire insurance plans, the Charles E. Goad map making company was the most comprehensive company in its coverage of Canada. By 1885, the company was firmly established in Canada and by 1910, Goad and his surveyors had created fire insurance plans for more than 1300 Canadian communities. When Charles E. Goad died that same year, the company was taken over by his three sons, who continued to run the business under the name Chas. E. Goad Company. In 1911 an agreement was reached between the Chas. E. Goad Company and the Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association, by which the Goad Company was to create and revise plans for the Association exclusively. The Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association was founded in 1883 for the purpose of standardizing fire insurance rules. This agreement ended in 1917, and in 1918, the Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association established its own plan making department. It was named the Underwriters' Survey Bureau Limited. At the same time, the Bureau acquired the exclusive rights from the Chas. E. Goad Company to revise and reprint the Goad plans. The Goad Company, which continued to exist until 1930, stopped producing fire insurance plans. In March 1931, the Underwriters' Survey Bureau purchased all of the assets of the Chas. E. Goad Company, including copyright. The Underwriters' Survey Bureau continued to produce fire insurance plans for the cities and towns in Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. The Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association remained responsible for the production of plans in the western provinces and the B.C. Underwriters' Association was responsible for plans in British Columbia. In 1960, these regional operations were amalgamated with the production of plans under the centralized Plan Division of the Canadian Underwriters' Association. In 1975, the Association changed its name to the Insurer's Advisory Organization, and at the same time, decided to cease fire insurance plan production and sell all plan inventory. This was the end of 100 years of continuous fire insurance plan production in Canada. (Taken from: Hayward, Robert J. Fire Insurance Plans in the National Map Collection. Ottawa: Public Archives of Canada, 1977.)
Custodial history
The fire insurance plans were purchased from Edward Phelps of London, Ontario with the aid of funds from the Friends of the Bata Library.
Scope and content
This fonds consists of Fire insurance plans (mostly by Goad) for all of British Columbia, some from Alberta, Quebec, Ontario, Newfoundland and Yukon.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Fonds was acquired from Edward Phelps, Librarian, D.W. Weldon Library, University of Western Ontario, and from the Archives of Ontario.
Arrangement
Language of material
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
Photocopying allowed for research purposes only. Copyright is in the possession on the publishers of the plans.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
Associated materials
For related records see: 76-002 to 76-009, 76-019 to 76-037, 78-010, 82-020 and 82-022.
Accruals
General note
In March 1991, 19 fire insurance plans received from the Archives of Ontario were added to this accession.
General note
The Insurers' Advisory Organization (1989) Inc. holds copyright on all fire insurance plans created by Chas. E. Goad, Civil Engineer, and all successor companies. See memo in donor file (Fire Insurance Plans) for more details.
General note
The fire insurance plans are located in 82-020 Boxes 1 - 5 and in Map Cabinet - Drawers 5, 6, and 7.
General note
Box 1: Ontario
Ajax 1960
Aurora 1960
Barrie 1971
Brampton 1971
Burlington 1971
Collingwood 1955
Cornwall 1963
Deep River 1958
Georgetown 1960
Haileybury 1952
Hamilton V.1-5 1964
Hawkesbury 1960
Hearst 1957
Huntsville 1954
Kingston 1963
Kirkland Lake 1952
New Liskeard 1952
Newmarket 1959
North Bay & District 1959
Prescott 1963
Richmond Hill 1960
Sault Ste. Marie 1953
Smith Falls 1959
Windsor V.1-5 1952, 1953
Box 2: Yukon, Alberta, Newfoundland, Quebec, Ottawa
Whitehorse 1959
Alberta
Banff 1955
Newfoundland
Carbonear 1954
Grand Bank 1956
St. Lawrence 1956
Quebec
Beloeil 1953
Chambly 1962
Montreal
V.3 1954
4 1961
6 1959
8 1971
9 1953 rev. 1972
10 1962
11 1959 rev. 1964 & 1966
13 1953 rev. 1964
14 1953 rev. 1961 & 1964
15 1957
16 1966
17 1963
18 1972
19 1966
20 1967
21 1972
Ottawa
6 volumes 1956-1963
Box 3: Toronto
V.4 1969
5 1965
6 1965
7 (1) 1959
(2) 1959
(3) 1957
9 (1) 1956
(2) 1956
(3) 1956
10 1959
11 1959
12 1964
13 1962
14 1952 rev. 1962
15 1954
16 1953
17 1955 rev. 1961
18 1964
19 1952
20 1955 rev. 1961
21 1969
Box 4: British Columbia
Abbotsford 1957
Alberni 1957
Armstrong 1952
Burnaby (1) 1964
(2) 1964
Burns Lake 1954
Campbell River 1957
Castlegar 1959
Chilliwack 1953
Courtenay 1957
Cranbrook 1953
Creston 1959
Cumberland 1954
Dawson Creek 1959
Duncan 1954
Enderby 1955
Esquimalt 1968
Fernie 1956
Fort St. John 1960
Hope 1959
Kamloops 1968
Kelowna 1952 rev. 1970
Kimberley 1953
Ladysmith 1954
Merritt 1954
Mission 1957
Nanaimo 1957
Nelson 1959
New Westminster 1957
North Vancouver 1965
Oak Bay 1968
Oliver 1952
Osoyoos 1952
Penticton 1952
Prince George 1966
Powell River 1961
Revelstoke 1955
Richmond 1960
Rossland 1953
Saanich 1968
Salmon Arm 1970
Smithers 1954
Squamish 1957
Terrace 1959
Trail 1959
Vancouver (A) 1960
(1) 1954
(2) 1955
(3) 1956
(4) 1958
(5) 1959
(6) 1960
(7) 1962
Box 5: Vancouver and other B.C.
(8) 1953
(10) 1962
(11) 1962
(12) 1962
(13) 1962
(14) 1962
Vanderhoaf 1954
Vernon 1970
Victoria (1) 1957 rev. 1967
(2) 1959
West Vancouver 1966
White Rock 1959
Williams Lake 1959
Map Cabinet - Drawer 5: Peterborough
Peterborough 1929, repr. 1943 (Special Sheets 1-34, Mercantile Revision, Feb. Index USB 1948)
Map Cabinet - Drawer 6: Ontario
Alliston 1926
Arnprior 1950
Cannington 1910
Capreol 1950
Carleton Place 1926
Chapleau 1950
Cochrane 1950
Deseronto 1922
Dundas 1951
Gananoque 1947
Gravenhurst 1925
Manitowaning 1925
Maxville 1905 rev. 1925
Meaford 1925
Midland 1946
Napanee 1931
Orillia 1928 rev. 1941
Parry Sound 1949
Picton 1924
Renfrew 1950
Staynor 1924
Stouffville 1910
Sunderland 1910
Tottenham 1928
Map Cabinet - Drawer 7
(Additions received from the Archives of Ontario, March 1991)
Bowmanville 1911, rev. and repr. 1924 Sheets 1-10 USB
Brighton 1911, rev. to 1926 Sheets 1,4 USB
Campbellford 1926 Sheets 1-8 USB 1926, rev. to 1929 Sheets 1-8 USB
Cobourg 1919, rev. and repr. 1946 Sheets 1-16, Index USB
Colborne 1934 Sheets 1-4 USB
Gananoque 1947 Sheets 1,3,6-8 USB
Hastings [1911] Sheets 1-4 Goad
Lindsay 1949 Sheets 1-25, Index USB
Millbrook 1890 Sheets 1-2 Goad
Napanee 1931 Sheets 1-12 USB
Norwood 1900 Sheets 1-4 Goad
Oakwood 1910 Sheets 1-2 Goad
Picton 1924 Sheets 1A, 1-12 USB
Sturgeon Point 1938 Sheets 1-2 USB
Trenton 1949 Sheets 1-26, Index USB
Tweed 1932 Sheets 1-6 USB
Warkworth 1890 Sheets [1] Goad
Wooler 1904 Sheets 1 Goad