From Island Imagined, a Robertson Library map-scanning project, here’s a page from the 1903 Fire Insurance Map of Charlottetown. Our house, at 100 Prince Street, is in the bottom-left corner in the 53rd block.
There’s city-wide map that acts as an index to the individual map pages; my favourite part of that map is the legend:
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Hey, look, the fire hydrant’s
Hey, look, the fire hydrant’s still in the same place!
<img width=”500” height=”375” alt=”Fire Hydrant” src=”http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2345/5708086441_9c2df5cfaa.jpg”/>
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