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From: rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: CAA maps & Books (Was: Tourist mis-information)
Message-ID: <34025@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 90 22:24:51 GMT
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In article <34016@watmath.waterloo.edu> sccowan@watmsg.waterloo.edu (S. Crispin Cowan) writes:
>Ok, so where would one conveniently get one of these wonderful free
>maps?  Sounds good to me.

Well, they aren't exactly wonderful, they are simply more up-to-date
and detailed than most of the maps you pay money for.  Truly wonderful
maps are available from the federal and provincial governments showing
all the county and side roads, topological features, etc., but there
is a charge for them.  I haven't been there for years, but there used
to be a Government of Ontario bookstore at 880 Bay St. in Toronto
that had lots of interesting maps and brochures available (many free).

The Ontario maps are available from most Ministry of Transportation
offices (drivers licence, car licence), chambers of commerce, tourist
centres (the service centre on the 401 between KW and Guelph used
to have them, but I haven't been there since they became a McDonalds,
and don't ask at the gas station or they'll try to sell you a map).

You can probably mail to some tourism department for other province
or state maps.   Your local chamber of commerce might have some of
them available, or would at least be able to give you the appropriate
address or 800 phone number.  The last time I got a New York map was
from a service centre on the NY Thruway near Rochester (which is where
I met someone who had driven from Pennsylvania and was wondering how
much further he had to go to get to the Toronto airport.  The clerk
was having a hard time telling him that he should have exited the thruway
at Buffalo and crossed the border there a couple of hours before).