Collection 82-020 - Fire insurance plans collection

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Fire insurance plans collection

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    82-020

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    • 1890-1972 (Creation)
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      Charles E. Goad Company - Underwriters' Survey Bureau

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    179 maps : fire insurance plans

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    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.

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    Fonds was acquired from Edward Phelps, Librarian, D.W. Weldon Library, University of Western Ontario, and from the Archives of Ontario.

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        Photocopying allowed for research purposes only. Copyright is in the possession on the publishers of the plans.

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        For related records see: 76-002 to 76-009, 76-019 to 76-037, 78-010, 82-020 and 82-022.

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        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.

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        The fire insurance plans are located in 82-020 Boxes 1 - 5 and in Map Cabinet - Drawers 5, 6, and 7.

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        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

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