No. 449 Canadian Rail THE JOURNAL OF CANADA'S RAILWAY HISTORY 3<./1 $ 4.00 NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 1995 PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY BY THE CANADIAN RAILROAD HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION PUBLIE TOUS LES DEUX MOIS PAR L'ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE D'HISTOIRE FERROVIAIRE CANADIAN RAIL ISSH ~75 PUBLISH EO BI-MONTHLY BV THE CANADIAN RAILR OAD HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION TABLE OF CONTENTS CPR AND TSR TRACKS THROUGH ETOBICOKE .................................. ROBERT G. BURNET•..•••. ....... 211 RAIL CANADA DECiSiONS ..... ..................................... ........................... DOUGLAS N.W. SMITH .......... 240 MOOSE JAW MEMORIES ......... ............................................................... R.N.L. DAViES.... .•. ....•............ 247 CANADIAN RAILROADERS IN BATILE ZONES ................ .... ... .. ........... CPR STAFF BULLETIN 1944 .. 248 SALEM AND HILLSBOROUGH UPDATE ................................................ 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Along the latter name was used on many maps until about 1795. Simcoe, who right-of-way, hamlets, villages, towns, and cities exist. All are reportedly did not like using Indian names on English settlements, unique and built for a specific purpose. It has been a desire to made an exception in 1795 to allow the name of Etobicoke to be branch off .the mainline and examine local railway origins, why used. Since the area was originally an Indian Hunting Ground, it certain tracks were laid or not "laid, and why stations got their is possible that is why it was left with the original Indian name. names. It is also necessary to pinpoint factual routes over those that others claim existed but, in reality did not or their thoughts are Roads had not yet been utilized as part of most settlements. not accurate. The palts, therefore, present a richer culmination of Water routes were the primary means of connecting centres. Paths the total. did exist, and Indian trails crisscrossed the area. As a result, in 1794, Simcoe ordered the construction of a military highway II. ETOBICOKE ORIGIN ruruling west from York. This road would cut across the Province, and would be known as the Dundas Highway, or Dundas Street. Before the arrival of the white man to Southwestern Dundas Street, like many early roads, followed sections of old Ontario, the Wyandot, Iroquois, and Mississauga native peoples Indian trials. By 18 16, public stage coaches were using Dundas lived at different times around what is now Toronto. On 9 Street. In 1826 the stage coaches travelled to and from York to September 1615, the explorer Etienne Brule changed that by Niagara following the lakeshore. In 1851, the " ... Western Mail becoming the first white man to 'discover' this area. For another Stage left Liddell's Building on Church Street in Toronto every two hundred years, wh.ite settlers trickled into the County of York, day at 6. P.M. for Hamilton."s A connection with this stage in displacing different Indian cultures. Islington also existed. Lord Dorchester, the flfSt Governor-General of Canada, On August 3, 1805, the Toronto Purchase was finally began reconciliation with the Mississauga, the last Indians in this clarified at the Credit River, where the Indians had 'agreed' to area. The negotiations, begun in 1787, were to purchase all Indian resettle.6 Significantly, while York began to thrive, Etobicoke had land east and west of the Humber River and approximately twenty­ only eighty-four residents. By 1809, it leaped to 1377 Note, eight miles north. In time, the transaction became known as the however, the census at this time was extremely biased and not Toronto Purchase. Local historians and records disagree if the accurate: women were rarely counted unless a wife of a prominent treaty was signed; further, the boundaries from the Etobicoke political member; girls, male/female orphans, and single men River to Scarborough Bluffs apparently only existed in Simcoe's were rarely recorded; only male children of registered malTied or Dorchester's mind. The consensus, however, is September 23, couples, and husbands were counted. Thus it is likely the white 1787, when the Mississaugas met the British Crown at the Bay of population was higher. Quinte. The settlement included 250,808 acres sold to the Crown for a mere seventeen hundred English pounds sterling cash, and an III. ETOBICOKE BACKGROUND undisclosed amount of merchandise given to the Mississaugas. At the local level, Etobicoke began to fOlm communities With the Canada Act of 1791, the Lieutenant-Governors of as early as 1793. The precursor mill on the Humber River's west Upper and Lower Canada were au thorized to divide their provinces bank was called Milton Mills, later Lambton Mills. "The origiI)al into districts, counties, towns, or townships. On 16 July 1792, mill on this location was built by the Government, probably in Governor Simcoe officially separated Upper Canada into nineteen August of 1793. It was the first mill of any type on the Humber Counties. Towards the end of 1792, a survey had been completed River, and was one of the earliest indications of settlement in and the Etobicoke boundaries defined: the Humber River, Lake Etobicoke Township."8 William Gamble, an early settler to Etobicoke, Ontario, Etobicoke Creek, Toronto Township, the Gore of Toronto later purchased this thriving saw mill. and, Vaughan Township. I Etobicoke was allotted 29,540 acres. In 1835, the recorded population of Lambton Mills was As part of the Sinlcoe survey, land parcels were first 500. This area was named after Lord Lambton, the first member allocated to United Empire Loyalists. The lots were generally of the British Government to visit the site. By 1837, William prime agricultural land, located along a water route such as Lake Gamble had a new g.rist mill constructed beside the Humber River. Ontario or one of the rivers and creeks.