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Canadian Rail ¢:± Canadian Rail ¢:± No. 421 MARCH - APRIL 1991 CANADIAN RAIL PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY BY THE CAN ADIAN RAILROA D HISTORICA L ASSOCIATION EDITOR: Fred F. Angus For your membership In the CAHA, which includes a CO-EDITOR: Douglas N. W. Smith subscriptioo 10 Canadian Rail. write 10: PRODUCTION: A. Stephen Walbridge CRHA, 120 Aue St-Pierre, $1. Constant. Oue. J5A 2G9 CARTOGRAPHER: Wilham A. Germaniuk Rates: in Canada: $29 (including GST). LAYOUT: Fred F. Angus outside Canada: $25. In U.S. funds. PRINTING: Procel Printing TABLE OF CONTENTS THE AGASSIZ STATtON .................. .... .................. ...... ............. ..... ARNOLD McCOMBS ...... A LOOK BACK ••• CANADIAN NATIONAL T' s...... ........ " ..... CARL GAy ...•... "42 RAIL ROADS OF MISSISaUOI COUNTY, QUEBEC. 1859 TO 1989 ...... .. STEPHEN WALBRIDGE 47 TORONTO RAILWA Y FENDERS OF 1908 .................................................. FRED ANGUS. .................... 54 JAMeS GOOD, AN UPDATE. ••••.•.•.•........•........••••.......•..•......•.•••••......•.....•.... DANA ASHDOWN ........... 58 CANADIAN NORTHERN PASSENGER CAR UPDATE .............. RAY CORLEy ....... 60 ASBESTOS & DANVILLE LOCOMOTIVE UPDATE .................... .. 60 THE SAGA OF MLW LOCOMOTIVE 53632 ...... ............................•............ PAT WEBB ..... .... ...........•... BOOK AND PERIODICAL REVIEWS ................•..... ......•.......... .. " CRHA COMMUNiCATIONS...................................................... ..................... .. "65 THE BUSINESS CAR ........................................................................................................... 68 Canadian Rail is continually In need 01 news. slories. historical dalB. photos. maps and other malerial Please send all contributions 10 the edilor: Fred F. Angus. 302 1 Trafalgar Ave. Montreal. P.O. H3Y lH3. No payment can be made 101 con tribuTions. but Tile contribuTel WIll be gwen credi t lor malenal submitted Material win be reTurned to the contributor If requested. Remember "Knowledge is 01l ittle value unless It is shared WIth others". NATIONAL DIRECTORS Frederi ck F. Angus Hugues W. Bonin J. ChrL$ topher Kyle Douglas N.w. Smith R.C. Ballard Roberl Carlson William Le Surf Lawrence M. Unwin Jack A. Beatty Charles De Jean Bernard Marlin Richard V lberg Waller J. Bedbrook Gerard Frechette Robert V.V. Nicholls A. Stephen Walbridge Alan C. Blackburn David W. Johnson Andrew W. Panko John C. Weir The CRHA has a number of local diVISions across the country. Many hold regular meettngs FRO,\ "r CO ~ ER : E.Qr/y;/I /908 II,~ Tormrln and issue newsletters. Further information may be obtained by wnllng 10 lhe division . Rai/uTI." ("mIl/Hili" I(>Slrd 1/1<' 'lI'ul)'OI! Atrlo, KEYSTONE DlVISQN /llIme Prlllle,. /908 Iypl!" 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K7U 6P9 CROWSNEST '" KE111..E \'...un DMSJON po 80 ••00 TORONTO l YORK DIVISKlN Cr~robrook.. S.C VIC 41-19 As part of its aCTivities. the CRHA operates I' O. Bo. 5S-&~. T........ ' 11" NEl..SON ELECTRfC TRAMWAY SOCIETY the Canadian RaIlway Museum at Delson I TOfonJc>. On! M5W lP3 123 View 5CtHI St. Constant. which is about 14 ITUtes tMGARA DIVISION ~BC V1L2Va Que. PO eo.5e3 pfUNCE GEORGE-N£CHAI«).fRASER ONISION (23 Km.) trom downtown Montreal. It is Sl. c.r-..w.. On L2R 8W1! Po. Bo.2_ open from \ate May to early October (dairy WlNOSOR·ESSEX OIVISION Prtoc. Geo<9I. S.C '1m 2S8 until Labour Day). Members. and their im· 300 cab.ma RC>ao;t EIISI PAClFfC COAST DIVISKlN mediate ta mirles. are admitted free of charge . W\noioa-. Ont N90 IA2 1".0 60< 1006. StatIot1-....- V rBC\ll\C2f!1 GOA!. Of THE ASSOCIATION Tl-IE COllECTION PRESERVATION AND OISSEMINA TION OF ITEMS R8.AflNG TO THE HISTORY Of RA.U.W"'YS IN CA.NAOA MARCH - APRIL 1991 CANADIAN RAIL Page 39 Tile Agassiz Statioll By Arnold McCombs Agassiz station and caboose at their present location. This now comprises the Agassiz Museum. The Fraser Valley is located in the south west corner reach the Caribou resulted in a temporary stay at Hope and Yale at of British Columbia. extending about 93 miles (150 kilometres) the extreme eastern end of the Fraser Valley. The decision was easterly from Vancouver. Prior to the 1858 gold rush on the Fraser made to back track, however, and the same year the family rafted River, only a handful of fur traders and explorers travelled the few some forty kilometres back down the Fraser River. They came trails which penetrated the dense rain forests that covered most of ashore at a point on the north bank of the Fraser River near land that the valley at that time. Captain Agassiz had pre-empted a few years earlier. [t was here that the "Agassiz Farm" was established from which the town of The gold rush, however, provided the impetus for the Agassiz derives its name. establishment of New Westminster, located just south-east of what is now Vancouver near the mouth of the Fraser River, as the seat By the 1870s, the value of the natural resources of British of the then government and to triple the population of British Columbia was recognized and plans were developed for a trans­ Columbia almost over night. continental railway to connect the west coast with the east. The route on the north side of the Fraser River through the Fraser By the l860s the settlement of the Fraser Valley began in Valley was one of the last segments of this massive undertaking to earnest. The land was rich and fertile. In addition to the trails, the be completed. Construction had commenced through the notorious Fraser River provided the means for the sternwheelers to traverse Fraser Canyon area to the east of Hope in the early 1880s. By 1886, the full length of the valley. Among the first permanent settlers at however, the railway had been completed through Agassiz and on the easterly end of the valley was the Agassiz family. to Port Moody just east of Vancouver. A modest railway station Captain L.N. Agassiz was an ex-officer in the Royal Welsh was constructed that year to service the area. Charles Tnkman, a Fusiliers who had come to British Columbia seeking a new life for former employee of a railway company in Texas. became the first himself and his young family. Between 1858 and 1862, while his agent for the CPR at Agassiz. Needless to say, 1886 was a wife and four young children stayed in Eastern Canada, he milestone in the history of the development of Agassiz and of the travelled throughout the gold fields and the Fraser Valley. After Fraser Valley. being joined by his wife and children in 1862, a failed attempt to Page 40 RAIL CANADIEN MARS - AVRIL 1991 Tourism may have . been one of the fi rst major industries of the The year area due to the Saint 1886 was not only Alice Hote l, but significant to the certainly as th e land Agassiz area for was cleared and completion of the developed, agriculture railway , but for a became a major force. number of other Early in the century reasons as wei J. before pasteurization, Harrison Lake is dairies were located located just eight close to the cities so kilometres north of that milk could be Agassiz and at that delivered fresh to the time, was a pristine market. Agassiz body of water sixty became a major kilometres in length collecting point for the set at th e foot of CPR " milk run" from massive snow capped the farms in the area to mountains. Tn 1886, the d a i ries near a trail wascuttheeight Vancouver. kilometres from Agassiz to Harrison Until I 926 when the HotSprings where the Lougheed highway Saint Alice Hotel was The Agassiz station as it appeared in a photograph taken in August, 1899. was completed to built. Because of the Agassiz, the only way nearby health giving to travel to or from natural hot springs as well as the beautiful setting, the hotel became Agassiz was either by CPR or by ferry across the Fraser River. world famous. Many a celebrity from the United States, Europe, The winter of 1934-1935 was one of the worst in history for as well as Canada, arrived in Agassiz by train then travelled by the Agassiz area. In January, drifts up to twelve feet high stopped coach to the Saint Alice. all rail traffic for ten days. HYdro power was lost for over a month Agassiz became a significant town on the CPR in the and telephone service was not fully restored for more than two Fraser Valley for a number of other reasons as well. Until the months. conversion from wood to coal in the 1890s, the Agassiz station was The Fraser River flood of 1948 cut the CPR ra il lines near a major "wood stop". Up to 250 men were engaged in wood cutting Agassiz in several pl aces and disrupted service for several weeks.
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