Item 76-002 - Cobourg, Ontario: fire insurance plan / Underwriters' Survey Bureau

Title and statement of responsibility area

Title proper

Cobourg, Ontario: fire insurance plan / Underwriters' Survey Bureau

General material designation

    Parallel title

    Other title information

    Title statements of responsibility

    Title notes

    Level of description

    Item

    Reference code

    76-002

    Edition area

    Edition statement

    Edition statement of responsibility

    Class of material specific details area

    Statement of scale (cartographic)

    Statement of projection (cartographic)

    Statement of coordinates (cartographic)

    Statement of scale (architectural)

    Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)

    Dates of creation area

    Date(s)

    • 1946 (Creation)
      Creator
      Charles E. Goad Company - Underwriters' Survey Bureau

    Physical description area

    Physical description

    16 sheets; 32 x 55 cm (bound) + index.

    Publisher's series area

    Title proper of publisher's series

    Parallel titles of publisher's series

    Other title information of publisher's series

    Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series

    Numbering within publisher's series

    Note on publisher's series

    Archival description area

    Name of creator

    Administrative history

    The Charles E. Goad map making company was established in Montreal, Quebec, in 1875. In its business of creating fire insurance plans, the Charles E. Goad map making company was the most comprehensive company in its coverage of Canada. By 1885, the company was firmly established in Canada and by 1910, Goad and his surveyors had created fire insurance plans for more than 1300 Canadian communities. When Charles E. Goad died that same year, the company was taken over by his three sons, who continued to run the business under the name Chas. E. Goad Company. In 1911 an agreement was reached between the Chas. E. Goad Company and the Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association, by which the Goad Company was to create and revise plans for the Association exclusively. The Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association was founded in 1883 for the purpose of standardizing fire insurance rules. This agreement ended in 1917, and in 1918, the Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association established its own plan making department. It was named the Underwriters' Survey Bureau Limited. At the same time, the Bureau acquired the exclusive rights from the Chas. E. Goad Company to revise and reprint the Goad plans. The Goad Company, which continued to exist until 1930, stopped producing fire insurance plans. In March 1931, the Underwriters' Survey Bureau purchased all of the assets of the Chas. E. Goad Company, including copyright. The Underwriters' Survey Bureau continued to produce fire insurance plans for the cities and towns in Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. The Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association remained responsible for the production of plans in the western provinces and the B.C. Underwriters' Association was responsible for plans in British Columbia. In 1960, these regional operations were amalgamated with the production of plans under the centralized Plan Division of the Canadian Underwriters' Association. In 1975, the Association changed its name to the Insurer's Advisory Organization, and at the same time, decided to cease fire insurance plan production and sell all plan inventory. This was the end of 100 years of continuous fire insurance plan production in Canada. (Taken from: Hayward, Robert J. Fire Insurance Plans in the National Map Collection. Ottawa: Public Archives of Canada, 1977.)

    Custodial history

    The custodial history of the fire insurance plans is unknown prior to ownership by Edward Phelps, Librarian, D.W. Weldon Library, University of Western Ontario.

    Scope and content

    This item is a bound fire insurance plans of the Town of Cobourg, reprinted March 1946 from a plan dated May 1919. The plans have a key of symbols and the scale varies on individual sheets.

    Notes area

    Physical condition

    Immediate source of acquisition

    The plan was purchased from Edward Phelps.

    Arrangement

    Language of material

      Script of material

        Location of originals

        Availability of other formats

        Restrictions on access

        No copying without permission of the University Archivist. No reprinting without the permission of the Underwriter's Association. The Insurers' Advisory Organization (1989) Inc. holds copyright on all fire insurance plans created by Chas. E. Goad, Civil Engineer, and all successor companies.

        Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication

        Finding aids

        Associated materials

        Related materials

        Accruals

        General note

        Located in Map Cabinet - Drawer 2.

        Alternative identifier(s)

        Standard number

        Standard number

        Access points

        Subject access points

        Name access points

        Genre access points

        Description record identifier

        Institution identifier

        Rules or conventions

        Language of description

          Script of description

            Sources

            Accession area