In Upper and Lower Canada, concession roads were laid out by the colonial government through undeveloped land to define lots to be developed; the name comes from a Lower Canadian French term for a row of lots. The Province of Upper Canada (French Province du Haut-Canada) was a British colony located in what is now the southern portion of the Province of Ontario The Province of Lower Canada (French Province du Bas-Canada) was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people Concession roads are straight, and follow an approximately square grid, usually oriented to a local lakeshore. They are 100 chains or 1. A chain is a unit of Length; it measures 66 feet or 22 yards (20 25 miles (2. 0 km) apart, so that two consecutive north-south concession roads and two consecutive east-west roads enclose 1,000 acres (4 km²). The acre is a unit of Area in a number of different systems including the imperial and U These 1,000 acres (4 km²) were then divided into lots according to various plans.
Concession roads were sometimes numbered consecutively. For example, in the area which became Toronto, Ontario, the southernmost east-west concession was the 1st concession road (now Queen Street), the next concession to the north was the 2nd concession road (now Bloor Street), and so on. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec Queen Street Toronto, may refer to Queen Street East Queen Street West Bloor Street is a major east-west commercial thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The concessions are 100 chains, or 1. 25 miles (2. 01 km), apart. [1]
In some areas, each side of the road is a numbered concession. For example, townships in Bruce County considered each side of a road to be a concession: for example, traffic driving east could be on Concession 2 while traffic driving west would be driving on Concession 3. Bruce County is a County in western Ontario, Canada, and includes the Bruce Peninsula. In this system, for the purposes of road signage the odd numbers are ignored, so each concession is numbered 2, 4, 6, and so on. These roads were numbered in such a way to make the numbering of farm lots easier, especially along township boundary roads where both sides of the road were in a different township. Currently the "odd numbered" concession numbers are only used to identify exact address numbers for farm lots (for example: Lot 18, Concession 11, Brant Township, which would reside on the north side of Concession 10).
Roads which led away from a lake or river (i. e. : perpendicular to the concessions) were called sidelines or side roads and Line frequently appears in Ontario road names as the equivalent of Road, although confusingly, in some townships "line" has the same meaning as "concession". For example, Guelph Line, 12th Line, and Brown's Line are important thoroughfares in and west of Toronto. The sideroad name survives in Clarke Side Road (also known as Clarke Road) in London. London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada along the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor with a metropolitan area population of 457720 the city proper The first concession was often known as the baseline, such as Jones Baseline, and roads with that name survive in many municipalities, including Ottawa and Clarington. Ottawa (ˈɒtəwə or sometimes /ˈɒtəwɑː/ is the Capital of Canada and the country's fourth largest municipality. The Municipality of Clarington is a municipality in Ontario, Canada in the Regional Municipality of Durham The first concession was also frequently known as the front, or broken front (B. F. ) when it was on a lakeshore.
Side road or sideline numbering varies depending on the township. Many townships in Bruce County, for example, are numbered in multiples of 5: starting with the town line (township boundary), then numbered 5, 10, 15, and so on, according to the lot number of the abutting parcel in the original township survey.
Many of the concession roads retain their original names. Less developed areas are often referred to as the back concessions or back roads.
Since in most of Upper Canada this surveying preceded urban development, most Ontario municipalities have grid patterns of streets. In cities, the concession roads tended to evolve into the major streets.
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- ^ Mike Filey (2003). Range road is a term often used in the military for the Road that links weapons-testing ranges The Dominion Land Survey is the method used to divide most of Western Canada into one-square- Mile sections for agricultural and other purposes A county highway (also county road or county route; usually abbreviated CH or CR) is a road in the United States and in the Canadian Toronto Sketches 7. Dundurn Press, 153.
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