Charles Unwin (b.1829 d.1918-01-05) was a prominent surveyor for the
Government of Ontario
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and the
City of Toronto government
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Unwin was born in the United Kingdom, and emigrated to Toronto in 1843, and lived with his uncle—also named Charles Unwin.
Unwin attended the prestigious
Upper Canada College
Upper Canada College (UCC) is an elite, all-boys, private school in Toronto, Ontario, operating under the International Baccalaureate program. The college is widely described as the country's most prestigious preparatory school, and has produce ...
, a private high school attended by many of the leading elements of Ontario's administration.
After graduation, he apprenticed with
John Stoughton Dennis Lieutenant-Colonel John Stoughton Dennis (19 October 1820 – 7 July 1885) was a Canadian surveyor, militia officer, and civil servant, born in Kingston, Upper Canada.
In 1866, Dennis led an ill-fated militia attack against the Fenians at ...
, completing his apprenticeship in 1852.
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He spent the next nine years surveying
Muskoka County.
![City of Toronto, reduced by permission from Wadsworth & Unwin's Large Map CTASC](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/City_of_Toronto%2C_reduced_by_permission_from_Wadsworth_%26_Unwin%27s_Large_Map_CTASC.jpg)
Unwin entered into a partnership with
Vernon Bayley Wadsworth in 1868.
In 1910 the association of
Ontario Land Surveyors published Unwin's 12 page autobiographical sketch.
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Unwin never married. He worked as a surveyor for Toronto from 1874 to his death, at 88 in 1918.][
Unwin Avenue, the southernmost street in Toronto's Portlands, is named after Unwin.][
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1829 births
1918 deaths
English emigrants to Canada
People from Mansfield
People from Old Toronto
Canadian surveyors
Upper Canada College alumni