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  • From Footpaths to Freeways (John Shragge/DOH, 1987), covers: Early road tolls, Talbot Road, Toronto–Syndeham Road, Toronto–Hamilton Highway (Lake Shore Road), Queen Elizabeth Way, Highway 401
  • The Shape of the Suburbs: Understanding Toronto's Urban Sprawl (John Sewell/Univ. of Toronto Press), covers: Expressways of Toronto
  • Toronto Sketches: The Way We Were (volumes one through eleven) (Mike Filey/Dundurn Press), covers: many topics in and around Toronto.
  • Toronto Street Names: An Illustrated Guide to Their Origins (Leonard Wise, Allan Gould/Firefly Books, 2000), covers most arterials in Toronto, and several streets.
  • QEW - Canada's First Superhighway (Robert Stamp, 1997), covers the ideas, designs, and construction of the QEW/Middle Road and Toronto–Hamilton Highway from 1914 to (practically) today
  • Provincial Highway Distance Table (1989), lengths and intersections along all provincial highways at the time.
Maps
  • Official Ontario Road Map (Department of Highways/Ministry of Transportation of Ontario), 1923 (digital) 1927, 1936/37, 1937/38, 1938/39, 1940, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978/79, 1980, 1980/81, 1982/83, 1984/85, 1986/87, 1988/89, 1990/91, 1992/93, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2010/11, 2012/13, 2014/15, 2016/17, 2018/19.
  • Ontario Back Roads (MapArt) 2010, 2011.
  • Backroad Mapbook, Cottage Country, Southwestern Ontario, Northeastern Ontario, Northwestern Ontario and Algonquin editions, (Backroad Mapbooks), 2009. - In depth topographical relief atlas.