"Bass Line" is in part a reference to Bass Lake; but in Ontario, major roads dating back to the original land surveys are sometimes called "concession roads" and sometimes called "Lines" (if they haven't been given a more conventional name [eg "Lawrence Avenue"] in the years since the original land survey).
In and around Toronto, I can think of Brown's Line (later Highway 27), Appleby Line, Guelph Line, Brock Line. There's also in several towns (London, Ottawa) "Base Line (Road)", which is pronounced in the musical way [as opposed to the lake/fish version, which rhymes with "hass" as in "hassle"]; in those cases it's the road / line on a map on which the local surveys were based.
Concession Roads define the townships and the land-lots in rural Ontario. They're 100 surveyor's chains apart (well, the lots are 99 chains + a one-chain road allowance), which is almost exactly 1.25km.
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Date: 2007-01-09 05:22 am (UTC)In and around Toronto, I can think of Brown's Line (later Highway 27), Appleby Line, Guelph Line, Brock Line. There's also in several towns (London, Ottawa) "Base Line (Road)", which is pronounced in the musical way [as opposed to the lake/fish version, which rhymes with "hass" as in "hassle"]; in those cases it's the road / line on a map on which the local surveys were based.
Concession Roads define the townships and the land-lots in rural Ontario. They're 100 surveyor's chains apart (well, the lots are 99 chains + a one-chain road allowance), which is almost exactly 1.25km.
More about this probably Ontario-specific lingo in this Wikipedia article.