1880 Insurance Plan of the City of Toronto

Simple online access to the Atlas of the City of Toronto by the Chas. E. Goad Company.

Atlas Editions available: 1884, 1890, 1893, 1899, 1903, 1910, 1913, 1924.
Bonus Updates: 1880 Insurance Plan of the City of Toronto, 1889 Insurance Plan, The Great Toronto Fires of 1904 — and 1895
More Maps: Check out Historical Maps of Toronto — includes the 1858 WS Boulton Atlas and the 1842 Cane Topological Map of the City and Liberties of Toronto
See also: Toronto Historical Map Viewer; A Primer on Goad’s Atlases

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The Insurance Plan of 1880 provides maps which are even more detailed than those of the Atlases. It is well worth comparing to the Insurance Plan of 1889 to discern how quickly parts of the city can change over a decade.
Images for the 1880 Insurance Plan of the City of Toronto courtesy of City of Toronto Archives.

Click anywhere on the index maps to view the corresponding detail plate

Toronto Central City
Plate 4 Plate 5 Plate 6 Plate 7 Plate 8 Plate 12 Plate 13 Plate 14 Plate 15 Plate 16 Plate 27 Plate 28 Plate 29 Plate 30 Plate 35 Plate 36 Plate 37 Plate 38 Plate 41 Plate 42 Plate 43 Plate 44 Plate 46 Plate 47 Plate 48 Plate 49 Plate 50 Plate 52 Plate 51 Plate 53 Plate 45 Plate 39 Plate 31 Plate 17 Plate 32 Plate 33 Plate 17 Plate 18 Plate 19 Plate 9 Plate 10 Plate 11 Plate 10 Plate 17


Toronto - West of College Avenue (now known as University) & Plan Showing Building Districts

Plate 54 Plate 54 Plate 54 Plate 52 Plate 20 Plate 4 Plate 4 Plate 54 Plate 54 Plate 21 Plate 22 Plate 23 Plate 24 Plate 25 Plate 26 Plate 34 Plate 40


Regrettably, there do not appear to be scanned images for plates 5 or 54 at this time.


Title Page and General Plan showing Average Pressures (click to expand)



Large views of Index Plates 2 and 3.

Download all images: TBD (zip file, ~N mb)

To find out more about these maps, read: Goad’s Atlas of Toronto: Online!

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