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Data Collections
These fields are in addition to Dublin Core fields to describe MDL's data collections, including microdata, statistical data, and GIS data.
Collection
Which type of resource this is
Geospatial
License
CC BY-SA 4.0
Production Date
2013
Geographic Keywords
Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Notes
Broad Topic
Arts and Humanities, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Other
Keywords
hydrography
rivers
lakes
geographic data
Links
<a href="https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/IYS0K9">doi:10.5683/SP2/IYS0K9</a>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Historical Hydrography of Toronto (1802 - 1886)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Fortin, Marcel
Description
An account of the resource
Shoreline, rivers (including lost rivers) and creeks in the City of Toronto digitized from georeferenced 19th century maps from the collections of the Map & Data Library, Toronto Public Library, the City of Toronto Archives, and from the book
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Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of Toronto. Cartographic material. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2008.
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For each source map there is: a .zip file containing a line shapefile for creeks, a polygon shapefile for rivers and the shoreline, and a world file for the georectified source map as well as a KMZ file showing the same informaton
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Projected Coordinate System: NAD 1983 UTM Zone 17N
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Data were created with the help of Jordan Hale, who coordinated the georeferencing and vectorization by Map and Data Library student assistants.</p>
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
doi:10.5683/SP2/IYS0K9