Series 8 - Manuscripts and publications: Mapping Upper Canada, 1780-1867

1.35 m of textual and graphic records

By the time Mapping Upper Canada appeared in 1991, Ms Winearls had spent thousands of hours compiling information, checking and rechecking it, and supervising the evolution of the manuscript. This was a groundbreaking project, for it involved developing a standardized system of describing the maps that was not based on the exact titles, which had been the normal practice previously. It was also a project that saw the evolution of the manuscript from the traditional handwritten format to a computer generated one. A complicating factor was that the index, with its ‘names’, ‘subject’ and ‘titles’ divisions, had to be compiled separately.

This series begins with a publication proposal, a ‘work in progress’ file, and two files of correspondence, notes and minutes relating to editing policies and to indexing problems. There is also a folder of correspondence and notes relating to land registry records. These files are in B1996-0021/003(01) - (07). Further files on funding, correspondence with potential publishers, including the University of Toronto Press, an appeal to public libraries for support, publicity, awards, reviews and royalties, are in B1998-0013/002(25) - (28) and /003(01) - (13).

The remainder of the series consists of drafts of the manuscript. Not all the drafts – there were many – have been retained. This series contains the earliest extant version for each section, and subsequent versions where there is evidence of significant advancement in the evolution of the text. Particular attention has been paid to keeping those versions that were annotated by Ms Winearls. The standard arrangement is as follows. The first file(s) contain the earliest draft, usually described as the “original draft”, in typescript, followed by the “first draft” which was computer-generated. In the final stages the manuscript was typeset.

B1996-0021, box 003 and the beginning of box 016 contain the earliest extant draft (typescript) of Part I: General’ (undated but 1986) and subsequent drafts – largely computer-generated – with notations and additions to May, 1989. The remainder of box 016 contains the earliest drafts ofPart II: Regions’ (1985-1989).

The earliest drafts of ‘Part III: Towns’ (1988-1989) are continued in B1996-0021, boxes 016 and 017; the latter contains the first complete draft (September-October, 1989) of the whole text.
The appendices are located as follows:
-Appendix A, ‘Township surveys’. Drafts and notes: B1998-0013/007(11) and 011(07);
-Appendix B, ‘Registered sub-divisions and plans’. Handwritten notes: B1996-0021/017(08) and (09);
-Appendix C, ‘Nautical charts’. Notes and drafts: B1996-0021/017(11) - (12) and /018(01);
-Appendix D, ‘Boundary surveys’. Notes and drafts: B1996-0021/018(02) – (03);
-Appendix E is in B1996-0021/018, along with drafts of the ‘Introduction’, ‘Location symbols’, ‘Abbreviations’, ‘Bibliography’, and the ‘final edit’ (July-August, 1990) of the text before the typeset copy was produced. Drafts of ‘illustrations and captions’ are in B1998-0013/011(08).

The corrected typescript copy of the manuscript that was produced in various stages throughout 1990 is in B1996-0021, box 019, along with a portion of the indexing text. The latter is continued in box 004, file 03 and in box 020, and concludes with drafts of the names’,subject’, and `title’ indices.

Photographic copies of maps loaned by Ms Winearls to the University of Toronto Press for inclusion in Mapping in Upper Canada have been removed from box B1998-0013/003(08) to 001P(04).

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