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The Humber River Heritage Bridge Inventory
CROSSINGTHE H UMBER T HE HE 2011 Heritage H UMBER UMBER Canada Foundation NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT R AWARD WINNER IVER IVER for Volunteer Contribution HERIT A GE B RIDGE RIDGE I NVENTORY July 2011 CROSSING THE HUMBER THE HUMBER RIVER HERITAGE BRIDGE INVENTORY www.trca.on.ca Toronto and Region Conservation Authority Humber Watershed Alliance, Heritage Subcommittee Newly Released, July 2011 Fold Here PREAMBLE In 2008, I was introduced to the Humber River Heritage Bridge Inventory to provide advice on one of the identified heritage bridges, slated for de-designation and subsequent demolition. Having recently recommended to the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering that they increase their activities in heritage bridge conservation, I was happy to participate in this inventory project as such initiatives highlight the significant and often overlooked relationship between engineering advancements and our cultural heritage. Over time the widespread loss of heritage bridges has occurred for a variety of reasons: deterioration, changes in highway requirements, or damage by storms like Hurricane Hazel. Today, however, with increasing attention towards cultural heritage, creative solutions are being explored for preserving heritage bridges. Protecting, conserving and celebrating our heritage bridges contributes to not only a greater understanding of the development of approaches to modern day engineering but also marks our progress as a nation, from early settlement to today’s modern and progressive communities. Roger Dorton, C.M., Ph.D., P.Eng. 1 -
Canadian Rail No230 1971
Oan.adian.&1nn 1VO.230 1971 I have fought a good fight .. I have finished the course • • I have kept the faith .. S.S.Worthen. ~ RITING A VALEDICTORY FOR A WELL-BELOVED friend is an unhappy task. Never theless,custom dictates and friend ship requires that some comfortable last words should be said. LATER FOR MANY -:EARLIER FOR SOME- THE REI'IREMENT OF CANADIAN National Railway's 4-8 -4 no. 6218 became inevitable. The certifica tion of her bOiler,which was an essential requirement for her con tinuing operation, was carefully monitored and,in the autumn of 1970 railway enthusiasts in eastern North America were sustained by the hope that the Railway Transport Committee of the Canadian Transport Commission would accept a request from Canadian National for a six months extension of this certification beyond the terrtinal date of March 24,1971. Indeed,it was a foregone conclusion. In Montreal and Toronto,enthusiast groups confidently made plans for autumn 1971 ex cursions. Oh happy time 1 Oh equally happy prediction! NO. 6218 would thus be retired in a polychromatic crescendo of celebrations and autumn colours in Montreal - or equally,in Toronto - in September, 1971. THE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM MR. D. V. GONDER, VICE-PRESIDENT OF CN' S Great Lakes Region in the Montreal STAR of January 30, 1971, ~Ias not at all upsetting, as it reiterated that "the Company's famed loco motive 6218,one of Canada's last operating steam locomotives, will be withdra\'ll1 this year". Mr. Gonder assured 6218 's admirers that she would be given a proper accolade before her final retirement. -
The Ferrophiliac Column April, 1992 Conducted by Just A. Ferronut
The Ferrophiliac Column April, 1992 Conducted by Just A. Ferronut I thought winter had got to me the other day when I was Railway Commission of that City. The Pere Marquette asked by a couple of fans whether I was asleep when I put the continued to operate the line on a month to month basis while material on the Pere Marquette together for the February the City was upgrading it and electrifying it. This Column. The question was if perhaps I had got the figures in arrangement continued until the rehabilitated line was the date of the timetable reversed? A check of the timetable officially opened on July 1, 1915. from Bill Reddy confirmed that the 1942 date shown in Meanwhile, back in the 1890s the Lake Erie and February is correct and that there was in fact a mixed train Detroit River Railway Company wanted to extend eastward each way, six days a week between Chatham and Blenheim. to the Niagara Peninsula and the markets of Buffalo and New These trains connected with similar mixed trains that York State. A few cooler heads were starting to realise that operated on Subdivision No. 1 between Blenheim and railways couldn’t just keep building bridge routes across Walkerville (Windsor). This trip – less than 50 miles via southern Ontario and expect them all to make money. Canadian National, Canadian Pacific or Highway # 401 – Therefore the Lake Erie and Detroit River Railway Company took six or six and half hours via the good old Pere like the Wabash settled for running rights on an existing Marquette mixed in 1942. -
Systems & Track: What to Expect
IT’S HAPPENING, TODAY Forum Eglinton Crosstown LRT Metrolinx’s Core Business – Providing Better, Faster, Easier Service We have a strong connection with our Adding More Service Today Making It Easier for Our customers, and a Customers to Access Our great understanding Service of who they are and Building More to Improve Service where they are going. Planning for New Connections Investing in Our Future MISSION: VISION: WE CONNECT GETTING YOU THERE COMMUNITIES BETTER, FASTER, EASIER 3 SIMC OE L A K E SIMC OE L A K E SIMC OE Allandale Waterfront Newmarket Hwy 404 Yonge-Davis Lincolnville Bloomington Y ORK Unionville Vaughan University of Ontario Metropolitan Institute of Technology Helen Centre Richmond Hill Centre (Langstaff GO) Hwy 407 Finch West Conestoga Downsview Park DURHAM Don Sheppard Leslie Mills W A TERL OO Humber -Yonge McCowan College Oriole Bramalea Kitchener Yorkdale Scarborough Centre Weston TORONT O Pickering Oshawa Bowmanville Science Gateway Terminal Toronto Region of Waterloo Caledonia Cedarvale Eglinton Centre International Airport Pearson International Kennedy Airport Mount Renforth Dennis Fairway Dundas West Lansdowne St. George Bloor-Yonge Pape Main Kipling Bloor Spadina Square WELLING T ON One Danforth Cooksville Gerrard- Osgoode Queen Carlaw Milton PEEL Winston LEGEND Churchill East Harbour Port Credit UNION Subway Ontario Place /Exhibition Billy Bishop Toronto Light Rail Transit (LRT) City Airport HA LT ON Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)/ LAKE ONTARIO Regional Express Bus Aldershot GO Rail - 15-min Two-Way All-Day GORail - Two-Way All-Day HAMI LT ON West Harbour Niagara Falls GO Rail - Peak Only McMaster Hamilton GO Centre UP Express John C. -
Resilient City – Preparing for a Changing Climate Status Update and Next Steps
PE15.2 STAFF REPORT ACTION REQUIRED Resilient City – Preparing for a Changing Climate Status Update and Next Steps Date: November 2, 2016 To: Parks and Environment Committee From: Chief Corporate Officer Wards: All Wards Reference P:\2016\Internal Services\E&E\Pe16012e&e (AFS 22279) Number: SUMMARY Toronto has and is forecast to experience altered patterns of extreme weather as a result of climate change. Enhancing the resilience of Toronto’s infrastructure and services to these changing weather patterns to reduce the risk of damage and associated costs, injury and emergency situations is a priority of City Council. In 2014, City Council adopted the Climate Change Risk Management Policy outlining responsibilities and a governance structure for implementing the policy. Council also directed that staff report back on the status of implementation of the policy in 2016. Implementation of the policy has been guided by use of a Thematic Area High Level Risk Assessment (HLRA) approach, designed by the cross-corporate Resilient City Work Group to: - identify and assess potential risks of climate change and associated extreme weather events; - define the interdependencies between key infrastructure and service providers, both private and public sector; and - outline the actions that could be taken to mitigate priority risks. Over the past year, High Level Risk Assessments (HLRA) have been undertaken in three Thematic Areas: Utilities, Transportation and Water, in close collaboration with City divisions, as well as external private and broader public sector organizations. To date, work has involved City Planning, Environment & Energy, Engineering & Construction Services, Toronto Water, Toronto Public Health, Transportation Services, Toronto Resilient City Update and Next Steps 1 Transit Commission (TTC), Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA), Toronto Hydro, Metrolinx, Hydro One, Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), Enwave, Enbridge, and representatives of the telecom sector. -
Upper Canada Railway Society B Ox 12 2 Stat Io N " A" T O R O Nto, Ontario *
INCORPORATED 1952 NUMBER 472 FEBRUARY 1989 UPPER CANADA RAILWAY SOCIETY B OX 12 2 STAT IO N " A" T O R O NTO, ONTARIO *-- This business car, the NORTHERN LIGHTS, was photographed in April, 1988 at the Lantic Sugar Co. siding adjacent to VIA's Toronto Maintenance Facility. It is owned by Private Rail Inc., and was formerly Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 4, the ROUNDUP and MISSISSIPPI, buiit in 1915 and rebuilt in 1934. The car is now numbered 15111. —John D. Thompson photo The TTC Harbourfront LRT Line Union Station Loop awaits track and over• head installation in this January, 1989 view. The opening at right leads to the mezzanine of Union Station on the Yonge Subway. —photo by Ted Wickson, TTC A GMD plant switcher moves a gleaming new Norfolk Southern unit, 6657, across a road outside the plant on Dec. 11, 1988. —John E. Parneii photo February 1989 UCRS News 3 • r etter TorontoTransit Commission MEETING HATF November 29 . 1988 3 Hovember 22 , . 1988 ^^^^^^ DATE. .REPORT NO.. 18 M8R[ RERUILDS In 1S85 Metro Council requested the Commission to investigate the feasibility of rebuilding some of the aging PCC streetcars for use on the Harbourfront and Spadina LRT Lines. At its meehing of August 27, 1985, the Commission approved the use of ten' existing. CLRV's for service on the Harbourfront Line and the Rebuild of one PCC car by outside forces to ascertain whether or not the rebuild of sufficient PCCs to operate the Spadina Line can,be economically justified. Subsequently, at its meeting on February 11, 198 6, the Commission approved, the award of a contract to U.T.D.C. -
Crha Ews Report
crha ews Report P.O. BOX 22. STATION "B" MONTREAL 2. QUEBEC NUMBER 132 ---------~- *** -~~. -'--.:.. - ---...,- ~ =-- Where was the above 'photo taken? The scene shows a Canadian Northern Railway train hauled by locomotive 222, later No. 1283, class H-6-c. The engine, built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1907 was sold by Canadian National Railways in May 1942 for service on the Commonwealth Railways of Australia. A locomot ive of the same class has been preserved by the City of Barrie, Ontario (#1531). Can anyone identify the location or circumstan ces of the photograph ? J • • ...'" o::;) r C.R.H.A. News Report Page 55 MORE INFORMATION ABOUT "WADDON" The drawing reproduced on the opposite page is the product of the skilled hand of our mem M. U. operation for ber Mr. John Sanders, a former British Railways fireman, and now a resident of Montreal. It CRHA No. 114 depicts one of the London, Bri f.hton & South Coast Railway's 'Terrier" tank locomotives, of the type which has been donated Word has been received r~ently to the Association as recorded that CRHA 1114 is being equipped in the March issue of the News for M. U. operation. Although Report. most of the requixed equipment has been completed, M.U. service will Also, we have received add not commence before May 26. CRHA itional information about the #114 will be the "A" unit of a locomotive from Mr. R.F. Corley, pair, the "B" unit of which has in that contrary to the state already been selected but Wilch at ment made in the March issue, the moment has been assigned no the locomotive was not immediat number. -
Algoma Central Railway Passenger Rail Service
Algoma Central Railway Passenger Rail Service ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT August 13, 2014 To: Algoma Central Railway (ACR) Passenger Service Working Group c/o Sault Ste. Marie Economic Development Corporation 99 Foster Drive – Level Three Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6A 5X6 From: BDO Canada LLP 747 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6A 5N7 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................. I EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................ 1 Introduction .............................................................................................. 1 Background ............................................................................................... 2 Purpose of the Report .................................................................................. 2 Revenue and Ridership ................................................................................ 2 Stakeholders ............................................................................................. 3 Socio-Economic Impact ................................................................................ 4 Economic Impact ........................................................................................... 4 Social Impact ............................................................................................... 5 Conclusion ................................................................................................ 6 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................. -
Historical Outlines of Railways in Southwestern Ontario
UCRS Newsletter • July 1990 Toronto & Guelph Railway Note: The Toronto & Goderich Railway Company was estab- At the time of publication of this summary, Pat lished in 1848 to build from Toronto to Guelph, and on Scrimgeour was on the editorial staff of the Upper to Goderich, on Lake Huron. The Toronto & Guelph Canada Railway Society (UCRS) newsletter. This doc- was incorporated in 1851 to succeed the Toronto & ument is a most useful summary of the many pioneer Goderich with powers to build a line only as far as Guelph. lines that criss-crossed south-western Ontario in the th th The Toronto & Guelph was amalgamated with five 19 and early 20 centuries. other railway companies in 1854 to form the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada. The GTR opened the T&G line in 1856. 32 - Historical Outlines of Railways Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada in Southwestern Ontario The Grand Trunk was incorporated in 1852 with au- BY PAT SCRIMGEOUR thority to build a line from Montreal to Toronto, assum- ing the rights of the Montreal & Kingston Railway Company and the Kingston & Toronto Railway Com- The following items are brief histories of the railway pany, and with authority to unite small railway compa- companies in the area between Toronto and London. nies to build a main trunk line. To this end, the follow- Only the railways built in or connecting into the area ing companies were amalgamated with the GTR in are shown on the map below, and connecting lines in 1853 and 1854: the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Toronto, Hamilton; and London are not included. -
Rapid Transit in Toronto Levyrapidtransit.Ca TABLE of CONTENTS
The Neptis Foundation has collaborated with Edward J. Levy to publish this history of rapid transit proposals for the City of Toronto. Given Neptis’s focus on regional issues, we have supported Levy’s work because it demon- strates clearly that regional rapid transit cannot function eff ectively without a well-designed network at the core of the region. Toronto does not yet have such a network, as you will discover through the maps and historical photographs in this interactive web-book. We hope the material will contribute to ongoing debates on the need to create such a network. This web-book would not been produced without the vital eff orts of Philippa Campsie and Brent Gilliard, who have worked with Mr. Levy over two years to organize, edit, and present the volumes of text and illustrations. 1 Rapid Transit in Toronto levyrapidtransit.ca TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 INTRODUCTION 7 About this Book 9 Edward J. Levy 11 A Note from the Neptis Foundation 13 Author’s Note 16 Author’s Guiding Principle: The Need for a Network 18 Executive Summary 24 PART ONE: EARLY PLANNING FOR RAPID TRANSIT 1909 – 1945 CHAPTER 1: THE BEGINNING OF RAPID TRANSIT PLANNING IN TORONTO 25 1.0 Summary 26 1.1 The Story Begins 29 1.2 The First Subway Proposal 32 1.3 The Jacobs & Davies Report: Prescient but Premature 34 1.4 Putting the Proposal in Context CHAPTER 2: “The Rapid Transit System of the Future” and a Look Ahead, 1911 – 1913 36 2.0 Summary 37 2.1 The Evolving Vision, 1911 40 2.2 The Arnold Report: The Subway Alternative, 1912 44 2.3 Crossing the Valley CHAPTER 3: R.C. -
Cuta's 2006 Fall Conference
February/février 2007 National Transit Employee Recognition Awards 2006 · Prix nationaux de reconnaissance des employés du secteur des transports en commun 2006 CANADIAN TRANSIT CANADIEN SUR LE TRANSPORT COLLECTIF CUTA’S 2006 FALL CONFERENCE COMMUNITIES IN TRANSIT CONGRÈS D’AUTOMNE DE L’ACTU 2006 COLLECTIVITÉS EN TRANSITION PLUS: 2006 Mid-Year Ridership Results Données semestrielles 2006 de l’achalandage Quick test fact: Q’Straint rear tie-down belts along with stainless steel floor pockets and fastening hardware are static pull tested with every shipment. www.qstraint.com 312983_Qstraint.indd 1 1/3/07 12:35:10 PM We Listen, You Drive Discover the new face of performance with the line of Nova Bus transit, suburban, and shuttle vehicles. Building on our reputation for quality, our bold new front styling reflects the sound engineering and unique design features you have come to expect from every vehicle we produce. At Nova Bus, the quality is built right in. We listen, You Drive. www.novabus.com 312983_Qstraint.indd 1 1/3/07 12:35:10 PM 311734_Nova.indd 1 12/11/06 10:35:40 AM Under 30' and 35' length 12 year/500,000 mile Altoona tested 102" wide Cummins ISB-02 engine 35" front door - Vapor Optional 42" centre door Allison B300 or B300R transmission 19 – 35 passenger capacity Meritor independent front suspension KIRKMAN BUS SALES LTD. BLUE BIRD PEARSON BUS 1-888-381-3010 COACHWORKS 1-877-794-7670 CALGARY, AB 1-800-486-7122 BRANTFORD, ON 4 WESTERN CANADA EASTERN CANADA February/février 2007 Vol. 17 No. 1 CANADIAN TRANSIT CANADIEN SUR LE TRANSPORT COLLECTIF February 2007/ février 2007 CUTA Editor • Rédactrice de l’ACTU : Maureen Shuell cover • couverture Executive Editor • Rédactrice en chef : Thanks to partnerships between the various orders of government, Janine Strom new funding is making significant improvements to public transit to Contributing Editor • meet the growing needs of Canadians. -
Algoma Central Railway Wilderness Tourism by Rail
Algoma Central Railway Wilderness Rail Tourism Corridor Coalition for Algoma Passenger Trains www.captrains.ca AALLGGOOMMAA CCEENNTTRRAALL RRAAIILLWWAAYY:: WWIILLDDEERRNNEESSSS TTOOUURRIISSMM BBYY RRAAIILL October 2007 Page 1 Coalition for Algoma Passenger Trains Algoma Central Railway Wilderness Rail Tourism Corridor BUILDING BLOCKS The Algoma District has the building blocks to develop a world class wilderness tourism-by-rail corridor. ≤ The Algoma Central Railway (ACR)—a functioning rail line since 1899—with links to the Ontario Northland, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways ≤ The ACR is a north-south line linking Highways 11 and 17, the two major trans-Canada highways ≤ The ACR travels through 300 miles/475 kilometres of arguably the most beautiful wilderness landscape in Ontario—much of it still without road access ≤ The ACR journey begins in Sault Ste Marie, crosses lakes and rivers flowing south to Lake Superior (the world’s largest fresh water lake) and then crosses into the watershed of lakes and rivers flowing north to Hudson Bay ≤ The ACR revisits the iconic Canadian art history landscape where the Group of Seven painted much of their best known works—while living in boxcars and train stations on the ACR line ≤ The ACR serves some 35 towns and hamlets, including Sault Ste. Marie, Searchmont, Trout Lake, Spruce Lake, Frater, Eton, Sand Lake, Hawk Junction, Dubreuilville, Franz, Wabatong, Oba and Hearst ≤ The ACR goes through cultural communities representing the three founding peoples of Canada: First Nations, Francophone and Anglophone ≤ The ACR travels through the Chapleau Crown Game Preserve— the world’s largest game preserve—and Lake Superior Provincial Park ≤ The ACR is one of North America’s few remaining “flag stop” trains where passengers can disembark or flag down the train anywhere along the line.