How to convert a modern urban address to old Lot and Concession Numbers
(by Richard Parry)

November 2022

Sometime ago I had an interesting article forwarded to me by Anne Redish UE that was posted on “Family Tree Knot”. The question was asked “How do you find a modern urban address on the old Lot and Concession maps?” see: https://familytreeknots.blogspot.com/2022/09/finding-on-ground-urbanaddress.html?fbclid=lwAR1TjDgPB3dHSJSv-f0gUj1n4WQck10pXdFu4qTPrui5w07FQvWfhU8CyM

The article is very well written and was easily followed using Onland.ca to locate both the modern address and original land records. As a test I looked up my own address.

The first step was to connect with Onland.ca and in the LRO box and type in Hastings which it converted to Hastings (LRO 21) and then click on the Property box and click on address.

I entered 101 for the street number and Greenfield Park for the street name, then I entered me in the requested box, yes simply me, and click search.

The result was details 40524-0054 Active Land 101 Greenfield Park LT 32 PL 1557 Thurlow; Belleville; County of Hastings.

Now go back to the PIN ADDRESS INSTRUMENT MAP page and select MAP and click on all areas in the land registry and select Belleville and then click view map. Now click on search by street and insert Greenfield Park and click find streets. The street name is displayed and when you click on it a map is displayed showing the street. As can be seen the Greenfield Park subdivision spans both Lots 3 and 4 in the 4th Concession of Thurlow Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.

Now all I had to do is go back to the Onland.ca start-page and select ‘Historical Books’/HastingsCounty/Concession 4, and scroll through to Lot 3 which showed me that the Crown gave this Lot of 200 acres to Samuel ? and ? Frederick in 1791.