8.     Damiani, Roberto, and Adrian Piper. “Toronto 1788–1978.” Scapegoat Journal 12/13 (2020): 90–107. Accessed September 18, 2024. http://www.scapegoatjournal.org/docs/12-13/SG12-13_90_Damiani_Piper_Toronto1788-1978.pdf.

Historic drawings showing the “Toronto Purchase” & “Toronto Carrying Place” relevant, as well as analysis of how lot lines being drawn up as a rigid grid leading to land speculation (land as commodity), as well as the role of private property in the enforcement of empire. 

9. Ibid. 

Figure 6 shows a drawing of a proposal for a grid system for Toronto in 1788. 

10.    Toronto  Purchase  Treaty Boundaries (1805)
https://mncfn.ca/the-toronto-purchase-treaty-no-13-1805/

Diagram shows the Toronto Purchase Treaty along with Rouge Tract Claim (unceded land)

11.     Painting of Locust Lodge Farm, 1937 &  Section of the Tremaine Map of York County, 1860  (Boake lot highlighted). https://www.id8downsview.ca/post/lot-14-and-the-boake-family

Example of colonizers that settled one of the grid lots, and farmed there for 4 generations, until the military gradually appropriated the farmland completely in 1950.

12.   Plan of York (1815) Series 725 item 83  https://www.toronto.ca/ext/archives/s0725/s0725_it0090.jpg

Map shows the gradually developing urban center encroaching on the surrounding forest and farms. 

13., 14.     1914, Toronto Star Archive.

Anecdotes about local goings on in 1914 around the Downsview area. 

15.     Irish Settlement at Downsview, Dublin House of William Duncan. https://www.toronto.com/opinion/north-york-pioneer-william-duncans-legacy-lives-on-in-restaurant/article_60533b9a-c052-59e8-941f-a00c4932ad6e.html?

16.    Boakes Grove in Downsview Park. https://www.id8downsview.ca/post/early-irish-settlement