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Annual Report 2011–2012 Canadian Railroad Historical Association E XNewsP O R A I L Together, let us put our shoulders to the wheel! J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 3 Annual Report 2011–2012 Canadian Railroad Historical Association President’s Report Last year was a year of celebrations for the Canadian Railroad Exporail News - Historical Association. CRHA Communications On July 21, 2011, your Association celebrated the 175th Published by the Canadian Railroad anniversary of the opening of Canada’s first public railway, the Historical Association (CRHA) Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad, as well as the 50th 110 Saint Pierre St. Saint Constant, Quebec anniversary of the start of Exporail, the Canadian Railway Museum Canada J5A 1G7 in Delson/St-Constant, Quebec, only a few miles from Canada’s Tel: 450-638-1522 first railway. Fax: 450-638-1563 In March 2012, your Association celebrated 80 years since its Exporail E-mail [email protected] founding in 1932 and 75 years since the publishing of the first Web site www.exporail.org issue of its magazine, now known as Canadian Rail. Your CRHA Secretary: Association was and still is a “learned society”, as it conducts [email protected] original research and publishes the results in magazines or books. ISSN 1493-6089 From its beginning, your Association has collected, preserved and conserved valuable pieces of Canada’s Membership in the CRHA includes a railway heritage. In 1961 this collection found a home at Exporail, the newly formed railway museum. Today, subscription to Canadian Rail. Exporail is Canada’s largest railway museum. It is considered by experts to be one of the best railway museums Editor: Marie-Claude Reid in the world. Indeed, last November, the website TripAdvisor rated Exporail as the number one attraction in Layout: Gary McMinn Montreal. And since that time, this website has consistently rated Exporail among the top six of the city’s Translation Services d’édition attractions. and Revision: Guy Connolly Contributors: Maurice Binette You might say that the mission of your Association is to publish and preserve the rich railway heritage of Canada. James Bouchard On the publishing front, the Board of Directors authorized the printing of two new books: The Railways of St. C. Stephen Cheasley Lambert, by Lorne Perry, and Montreal Streetcars, by Daniel Laurendeau and Tom Grumley. In addition to the six Len Thibeault issues of Canadian Rail published by your Association, the Divisions have published significant research into Josée Vallerand Deloitte Canada’s railways—in The Sandhouse, produced by the Pacific Coast Division; Kingston Rail, by the Kingston Membership Division; The Turnout, by the Toronto & York Division; Bulletin Official, by the Charny Division; The Flagstop, by processing : Gérald Bouchard the Calgary and South Western Division; The Whistle Post, by the E&N Division; and The New Brunswick Update, Disponible en français produced by the New Brunswick Division. We are also selling over 200 copies of Canadian Rail each month, through newsstand sales. All members can be very proud of our collective research and publishing efforts. With regard to our preservation mission, your Association acquired three new pieces of rolling stock from the Agence métropolitaine de Transport. We restored Montreal Tramways Company’s Tram No. 3 to operating condition, and a major part of the restoration of Montreal Street Railway Company’s Tram No. 274 was completed. In an unexpected development, arrangements are underway to loan the A4 Pacific steam locomotive Dominion of Interior of the streetcar MTC 274. 1 Newsletter Vol. 11 Number 2 January 2013 Canada for a period of two years to the National Railway Museum in York, funding. However, on April 26, England, as part of its celebration of the 75th anniversary of a world 2012, we made another steam speed record set by the A4 Pacific locomotive Mallard, in 1938. It submission to the Federal is proposed that the National Railway Museum will carry out a cosmetic Government to carry out the restoration of Dominion of Canada, at its expense, as part of the resolution as part of the agreement. Much work still remains to be done, however, to properly celebrations, in 2017, of the conserve, preserve and display our excellent collection of railway heritage 1 5 0 t h a n n i v e r s a r y o f rolling stock. This has been and must continue to be a priority. Confederation. In addition to your Association owning and operating Exporail, the Pacific Your Association mourned the Coast Division operates the Fraser Mill Station Museum in Coquitlam, sudden passing of Dr. David B.C.; the Selkirk Division is involved with the Revelstoke Railway Museum; Johnson in March 2012. David the Rideau Valley Division is involved with the Railway Museum of Eastern was a past president, a director Ontario; and the NB Division Corporation owns and operates the New and a long-time member of your Brunswick Railway Museum. A highlight of the year occurred on February Association. From 1974, when 15, 2012, when the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General he arrived with his family in of Canada, visited the Fraser Mills Station Museum. Montreal, until his retirement six Exporail was affected by the problems with the Mercier Bridge, however years ago to Revelstoke, B.C., he your Association finished the fiscal year with only a small deficit, thanks to was very involved with the good control of our revenues and expenses by our Executive Director and development of Exporail, her team. particularly the design and construction of the new Angus The library and archives continued to grow with the donation of many Pavilion. In Revelstoke, he David Johnson in action. collections by members and friends. I again recommend to members that became president of the they take the time to organize their collections and leave written Revelstoke Railway Museum and was the Western Canada representative instructions on how these collections should be passed on. on the Board of Directors of your Association. David had very good The Canadian Railroad Historical Association Foundation had a very good judgment and could bring people together to achieve great things. We will year, thanks to the Golden Opportunity campaign, which brought in all miss David. $325,000 for its endowment fund. Thank you for your generosity. I urge all I would like to thank our members, staff and volunteers for the excellent members to consider making a donation or a bequest to the Foundation. work they do on behalf of your Association. I would also like to thank all of Our major challenge is and remains having proper, reliable funding for the the individuals, companies, donors and governments who continue to operation of Exporail. We still have had no success in getting the Federal support your Association each year. Government to act upon the resolution of Parliament of February 27, 2007 C. Stephen Cheasley to make Exporail Canada’s national railway museum with appropriate President, Canadian Railroad Historical Association Executive Director’s Report An ambitious program for a year of festivities Celebration was the theme of the 2011–2012 financial year. The 50th anniversary of Exporail’s founding and the 175th anniversary of Canada’s first railway were milestone events for our organization, and the popularity of the festivities was one of the reasons behind an increase in attendance at Exporail. Exporail welcomed 69,090 guests during the year, including 47,326 visitors and 21,764 users of the multipurpose rooms. This represents an 8% increase in attendance over the previous year. Road work and a temporary closing of the Mercier Bridge discouraged larger outings, but we nonetheless received visits by 116 groups of young people and 47 adult parties. Inauguration of a new permanent exhibition To mark the 50th anniversary of its founding, Exporail inaugurated a permanent exhibition, in the completely renovated Hays Station, entitled From Everywhere to You! This exhibition journeys into the mysterious world of switching yards and railway traffic control centres, through 151 archive documents and 34 artefacts from the collection. It also includes material from the first modern interlocking signal box, which was designed in Canada and installed at CN’s Wellington Tower in Montréal. The building was renovated for the exhibition, and a panoramic window overlooking the switching yard was added. Photograph : Lyne Lague Vol. 11 Number 2 January 2013 Newsletter 2 The opening ceremony, held on June 9, 2011, was attended by the powerful vision, the railway companies went on to unleash a chain of Director of the regional office of the Ministère de la Culture, des events that would help build a nation. Their wide-ranging achievements Communications et de la Condition féminine, as well as three not only made a tremendous difference in people’s lives; they also generations of the family of Charles Melville Hays, President of the Grand transformed the country’s political and economic landscape. For this Trunk Railway, in whose honour the station is named. exhibition, rarely seen documents (135) and objects (47) from the collection were on display in the CN Exhibit Room from June 18, 2011, until the end of April of the following year, before travelling to the Revelstoke Railway Museum for the 2012 tourist season. A pedagogical Internet tool, whose content meets the requirements of Canadian provincial education programs, was also developed for teachers. This version of the exhibition is available online at histoiredurailhistory.ca or from a link on our website. The main themes explored are immigration, travelling schools, Confederation, bridges and tunnels, important historical figures, and major railway companies in Canadian history. During the festivities held from July 21 to 24, more than 4,000 people gathered to commemorate the 175th anniversary of Canada’s first railway, which coincided with the official date of the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Canadian Railway Museum.
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