Oakville

Nine plates · Sixteen Mile Creek to Bronte · Halton, Ontario

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About

Oakville is a town of about 235,000 on the north shore of Lake Ontario, halfway between Toronto and Hamilton. It grew where Sixteen Mile Creek meets the lake — a shipbuilding harbour first, then a grain port, then the quiet lakefront town it is now. The creek still cuts a wooded ravine straight through the middle of it, which is why the place never quite became a grid.

These nine plates are the slow way of looking at it: the 1889 lighthouse at the harbour mouth, the shale walls of Lions Valley, a farmhouse at Bronte Creek that has not changed its mind about the century. Every one is worked up from a freely licensed photograph — the credits are in the colophon.

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    Colophon

    Every plate is an ink-and-wash rendering worked up from a photograph that its author released under a free licence. The photographers are credited below and again under the spread as you turn to each one. Plates drawn from a ShareAlike source carry that source’s ShareAlike terms.

    1. 01Oakville Harbourafter a photograph by Elgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
    2. 02Lakeshore Road Eastafter a photograph by Canmenwalker, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
    3. 03Shopfronts on Lakeshoreafter a photograph by Queen’s Printer for Ontario — Ontario Growth Secretariat, Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
    4. 04Erchless Estateafter a photograph by Kyle Whatley, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
    5. 05Bronte Harbourafter a photograph by Alex Krasavtsev, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
    6. 06Spruce Lane Farmafter a photograph by Yinan Chen, public domain · Wikimedia Commons
    7. 07Glen Abbeyafter a photograph by Whpq, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
    8. 08Lions Valley Parkafter a photograph by Ryan Hodnett, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
    9. 09Sixteen Mile Creekafter a photograph by formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

    The botanical ornaments are plates from François André Michaux’s North American Sylva (1817–19), public domain: white oak — Quercus alba, the tree the town is named for — and sugar maple. The trillium is Ontario’s floral emblem. Type is Instrument Serif and Newsreader, subset and self-hosted. Page-turn mechanics, the loupe and the riffle are from MengTo/sketchbook, itself built on matthewyuart/personalportfolio. No build step, no dependencies, no external requests.

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