Item M430-1937 - Plan showing Branch Line, Lots 2-4 in the Township of Murray

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CA ON00156 M/M430-1937

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Plan showing Branch Line, Lots 2-4 in the Township of Murray

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  • 2 Jan 1886 (Creation)

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1 Mylar plan (45 x 55cm)

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(1843-1930)

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John D. Evans was born in Goderich, Ontario on 27 May 1843. He was educated at the Upper Canada College in Toronto. He trained as a land surveyor and moved to Belleville, Ontario, in 1867. He worked as a surveyor and architect, being responsible for a number of buildings in Belleville including what is now City Hall (built 1871-1873). He worked as the Chief Engineer of the Central Ontario Railway from 1881, retiring in 1925. Evans died in Toronto on 7 November 1930.

His son, John Walter Evans was a prominent engineer and surveyor in the City of Belleville.

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Donated by Walter I. Watson. Accession #2012-04.

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A certified reproduction of the "Plan shewing land required for a Branch Line through Lots # 2, 3 & 4, Concession 2, Murray Township, now Town of Trenton. To connect The Central Ontario Railway with the Gilmour Co. Mills.” Surveyed by John Dunlop Evans, P.L.S. & Cheif Engineer of the COR. Plan signed January 2, 1886.

This copy was made in 1972 of plan #247, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.

Donated by Walter I. Watson, P. L. S.

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Photographed and available online at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/48358688246/

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