Vernon Bayley Wadsworth

Vernon Bayley Wadsworth
Bornc. 1842
Weston, Canada West
Died1940 (aged 97–98)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Known forprominent surveyor, lawyer, railway director, banker
City of Toronto, reduced by permission from Wadsworth & Unwin's Large Map for Tackabury's Atlas of the Dominion published by G.N. Tackabury, Montreal, 1875.

Vernon Bayley Wadsworth was a surveyor in the province of Ontario.[1] Wadsworth was born into a family in Weston, Canada West, who owned mills on the Humber River.[2] Wadsworth was also a lawyer, and a director of the London and Canada Loan and Agency Company.

In 1868 Wadsworth entered into a partnership with Charles Unwin, another surveyor who had apprenticed under John Stoughton Dennis.[1] Both men had worked on the surveying of Muskoka County.[3]

Wadsworth played a role in the management of both the Grand Trunk Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway.

References

  1. ^ a b "Mapping Toronto's First Century: 1787-1884". Toronto Public Library. Retrieved 2013-08-21. Vernon Bayley Wadsworth (1842-1940) and Charles Unwin (1829-1918) were prominent surveyors in Toronto in the latter half of the century. Both were pupils of J.S. Dennis. They were in partnership from 1868 to 1876 when Wadsworth left the firm to work for the London and Canadian Loan and Agency Company. Unwin also held the position of an Assessor for the City from 1872 to 1905, when he was appointed City Surveyor. The firm from which he retired in 1896, Unwin, Murphy, and Esten, is still in existence today.
  2. ^ "Wadsworth family fonds". Archives Canada. Archived from the original on 2013-09-18. Vernon Bayley Wadsworth (1842-ca. 1940) was a lawyer and manager of the London and Canada Loan and Agency Company in Ontario during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
  3. ^ Frederick de la Fosse, Scott D. Shipman (2004) [1878]. "English Bloods: In the Backwoods of Muskoka, 1878". Dundurn Press. p. 175. ISBN 9781554881550. Retrieved 2013-08-21. When Vernon B. Wadsworth, the surveyor of the area, reached the area in July 1860, the Muskoka Road (the Colonization Road) was a mere path in the dense forest.