Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/Ontario/Resources/books

Resources

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.