Winnipeg Maps 1915, Streetcars, Interurbans

 

Above: A hand-coloured Valentine company postcard, no date.

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The two following images are different sizes of the same map of Winnipeg - from the Government of Canada Atlas of 1915. 

(Original size is about 12 inches by 17 inches)

Electric railways are shown in blue.

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The next images are from The Era of Streetcars and Interurbans in Winnipeg 1881-1955; Herbert W Blake; 1974; self-published.

Streetcar lines above. Interurban lines below.

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More details on the Winnipeg, Selkirk and Lake Winnipeg follow from: 

The Intercity Electric Railway Industry in Canada; John F Due; 1966; University of Toronto Press.

Postcard above by Bloom Brothers, Winnipeg, hand-coloured, no date.

Ontario, Grain Transportation, Industry, 1927 - 'People Like Maps'

 

Postcard mailed from Ottawa to Massachusetts on September 12, 1929.

Printed by Photogelatine Engraving [sic], Ottawa.

The postmark advocates buying a Dominion Annuity at the Post Office.

And the stock market crash was coming in a month or so.

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The following maps come from this textbook. 

It may have been used by LC Gagnon during his studies.

However, we've been known to 'collect' the odd textbook, so one never knows for certain.

Canada was (over)building a lot of 'infrastructure' at the beginning of that century ...

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The last map (below) illustrates distribution of the revolutionary technology of electricity.

... aka The People's Power in Ontario.

In addition to reducing farm drudgery (e.g. by replacing cow milking by hand with milking machines) 

'hydro' also extended a 'metropolitan corridor' into the countryside via interurban electric railways.