This map, redrawn from an original, shows the extent of York when it became the City of Toronto. Laid out on a grid plan, it occupied the low, moist plain beside the central harbour - a reason for its early reputation as "muddy York" - and had not yet reached the higher ground beyond. Its effective northern limit was Lot Street (later Queen) above which were "park lots", granted as gentlemen's estates. King Street was already the main business street, while Yonge Street, the path north to new settlements as far as Lake Simcoe, and ultimately to the Upper Lakes at Georgian Bay, was not well connnected yet to the business core of the port though it was already the key route to Toronto's rising northern hinterland.
