Side Stories – TTC Route Maps

Maps are essential for showing us where we are and how to get where we want to go. This selection also illustrates the tremendous expansion of transit services since the TTC was formed in 1921.

 

Map of Toronto with coloured sections north, east, and west to show the different fare zones. Downtown is uncoloured.
Plan showing nine fare zones in effect within the City limits in 1921
June 17, 1929
Fonds 200, Series 726, Item 141.

 

Map of Toronto showing routes as red lines, mostly downtown but also heading out to the midtown suburbs.
Plan of Toronto Metropolitan area showing extension to one fare system since 1921
February 12, 1930
Fonds 200, Series 726, Item 341.

 

Map of Toronto with different coloured lines showing bus and streetcar routes, and dots showing where stops are.
Toronto Transportation Commission normal routing and location of stops
June 20, 1934, rev. to 1941
Fonds 200, Series 726, Item 549.

 

Map of Toronto with index listing every street.
Toronto visitors’ guide
[ca. 1940]
Fonds 200, Series 726, Item 199 (recto).
Blueprint map of Toronto showing different types of transit routes in different colours, for example, daily normal street car routes and rush hour bus routes.
TTC routing diagram of streetcar, bus, and coach services in effect
September 1, 1943
Fonds 200, Series 726, Item 406.

 

Map of Toronto showing transit routes as coloured lines and population as grey dots.
Toronto Metropolitan area showing transit services and distribution of 1950 population
October 29, 1951, rev. 1953
Fonds 200, Series 726, Item 324.

 

Map of Toronto showing transit routes in red and half-circles in grey showing the different fare zones.
Metro Transit System normal routes
revised May 1, 1955
Fonds 200, Series 726, Item 391 (recto).

 

Map of Toronto showing different types of transit routes in different colours, for example, streetcars in red and buses in blue.
TTC surface transit system
1965
Fonds 200, Series 726, Item 353.

 

A map of the subway system and downtown streetcar routes, as well as fares and hours of service.
Metropolitan Toronto transit map
May 11, 1968
Fonds 200, Series 726, Item 367 (verso).

 

Map of Toronto showing all public transit routes, as well as an index to subway stations.
TTC route map
December 1972
Fonds 200, Series 726, Item 335 (verso).

 

Map of Toronto showing all public transit routes, as well as fares and a subway station index.
Metro Transit system
[ca. 1980]
Fonds 200, Series 726, Item 351.