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Ucrs Newsletter - 1950 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── UCRS NEWSLETTER - 1950 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── July, 1950 - Number 54 Parry Sound southward towards Toronto, the contractor being Angus Sinclair, the famous THE CANADIAN NORTHERN ONTARIO RAILWAY AND railroad economist and author of New York, TORONTO who refused to offer a competitive bid for By Andrew Merrilees the work, but did it on a cost plus basis. Although Sir William Mackenzie and Sir Donald The work was pushed rapidly to completion, Mann were both Toronto citizens, their first and arrangements were made with the Canadian exploits in railroad construction took place Pacific Railway to use its North Toronto in Manitoba, and in Ontario west of Lake Station as the Canadian Northern Toronto Superior. Three years after the start of their terminus. The first Canadian Northern train western enterprises, the head office of to enter Toronto arrived at this station from Mackenzie and Mann was opened in Toronto, in Parry Sound in November of 1906. 1899. As the Canadian Northern was devoting At that time, the Toronto Railway all possible capital toward further Company’s building at the corner of King and construction in other parts of Canada, Church Streets was not all required for street comparatively little of its resources were railway purposes, and the railway contractors devoted to operating and maintaining the lines rented three rooms at the back of the top it had already constructed. As a result of floor, the architectural firm of Pearson and this, it was decided that until the Canadian Darling having the front offices. After a Northern could appropriate money to build a year, the whole top floor of the Toronto costly bridge over the Don River, it would Railway building was occupied by the railway use the CPR bridge. Later, the CPR began the contractors. grade separation scheme for its line across The Canadian Northern did not long North Toronto; this involved the construction remain with desk accommodation on a friendly of a new North Toronto station at Yonge Street, floor. Negotiations were concluded for the and subways at Yonge Street, Avenue Road, purchase of the building at the corner of King Davenport Road, Spadina Road, Howland Avenue, and Toronto Streets (l Toronto Street), and Bathurst Street, Christie Street, Shaw early in 1903, as renters from the Rice Lewis Street, Ossington Avenue and Dovercourt Road. Estate, they took possession. About 1908, the The Canadian Northern, anticipating expansion company required still more room, thus space westward from Toronto toward London, Hamilton was rented in the building at the corner of and Niagara Falls, concluded an agreement with Toronto and Court Streets. the CPR. whereby the Canadian Northern The first Canadian Northern constructed for its own use a service track construction took place in 1905, when to across this section, the other four tracks sustain the charter of the James Bay Railway, being two union tracks, a CPR service track, which Mackenzie and Mann had bought, and a CPR through freight track. As a result construction was begun on a four mile line of this, the Canadian National to this day from the Grand Trunk, south-east of Parry enjoys switching rights over the CPR line Sound, into Parry Sound. One engine, a few between Leaside and Dovercourt Road in the coaches and a crew were maintained at Parry west end of the city. Sound until such time as a main line James Late in 1906, the James Bay Railway Bay Railway could be built up to, and through was built to Oriole Station, and thence over the town. what is now a branch to a connection with the In 1906 construction commenced at CPR at Donlands Tower, which is a half-mile UCRS # 54 - 1 east of the Don River Bridge. From here it Railway, its name was changed to the Canadian used the CPR tracks over the Don River into Northern Ontario Railway, and this name a specially constructed James Bay Railway yard thereafter identified all further Canadian at Leaside. After completion of the James Bay Northern construction in this province. The Canadian Northern thereupon Junction to Westport in 1888 and from Lyn proceeded to build up the townsite of Leaside Junction to Brockville in 1889. and laid the foundations for many houses. It As soon as these lines were acquired, also built a substantial car shop, a 10-stall a concentrated raid was made on them by roundhouse, and lastly a wooden station on Canadian Northern officials, who made a tour the north side of the CPR main line, which of them in a train of baggage cars. They were is now the C.N R. car shop office. It is unique stripped of all but the barest essentials in that these extensive Canadian National office and shop supplies; the rest was removed facilities are even to-day divorced from any for use on other parts of the Canadian Northern physical connection with the C.N. system, all system. For a time, these lines also operated approach to them being over CPR property. completely divorced from the rest of the Although the C.N.R. Leaside car shops are Canadian Northern system. In 1912, however, still being actively used, the roundhouse construction began on a line to link Toronto (except for one stall) has long since been and Deseronto, and the following year turned over to material storage purposes . construction began at the opposite end of the One switcher is stationed at Leaside Bay of Quinte Railway (Sydenham) toward Rideau roundhouse to move cars about the car shop Junction, near Ottawa, connecting there with yard. the Ottawa valley-Hawkesbury-Montreal line During 1908, the CNOR Railway was of the Canadian Northern. extended north from Parry Sound, through At last the Canadian Northern had Sudbury Junction to Capreol, which was to be revealed its hand, and the CPR, stabbed in the junction between the Toronto line and the the back as it were, hurriedly began surveys later-built line from Capreol down the Ottawa and construction of a line from Agincourt to valley to Ottawa and Montreal. In 1910, a Glen Tay, tapping the more densely populated number of old-established lines were bought lakeshore towns, which had formerly been by the Canadian Northern Ontario Railway. missed by the main line through Peterborough. These were: The Central Ontario Railway, built Meanwhile, the City of Toronto, ever from Trenton to Picton in 1879, from Trenton anxious to aid railway companies which brought to Coe Hill in 1883, from Ormsby Junction to trade to it, was petitioned to aid in improving Maynooth in 1901, and from Maynooth to Wallace the terminal facilities of the CNOR Railway. in 1907; the Irondale, Bancroft and Ottawa Therefore, heavy pressure was put upon the Railway, a decrepid, almost bankrupt, old road Grand Trunk for the joint use of the Union built in 1884 from Howland (Kinmount Junction) Station by itself and the Canadian Northern. to Irondale, and in 1891 from Irondale to The Grand Trunk tentatively agreed, and the Baptiste; the Bay of Quinte Railway, a Canadian Northern began construction of what prosperous line built by the Rathbun Company is now the main line from Oriole Station down of Deseronto, from Deseronto to Napanee in the Don Valley, through Todmorden to Rosedale, 1904, from Napanee to Tweed in 1883, from on the old Toronto Belt Line Railway, which Yarker to Harrowsmith in 1889, from was owned by the Grand Trunk. Harrowsmith to Sydenham in 1894, and from Upon arrival at Rosedale, the CNOR Tweed to Bannockburn (junction with the gangs found the GTR track blocked with a coal Central Ontario Railway) in 1904. Lastly, car, which they had no authority to move, there was the Brockville, Westport and although they did have authority to run to North-Western Railway, built from Lyn the Union Station. Unwilling to be stopped UCRS # 54 - 2 by a technicality, Mackenzie and Mann found District. it easier to blow up the car of coal and pay A few years later, however, the City the Grand Trunk damages, than it was to argue of Toronto forced the CNOR to close its engine about the blocked track in court, and this sheds and yards at Rosedale, because the was done. The first CNOR train arrived in exclusive residents on the hill above Union Station from Sudbury against bitter complained of the smoke nuisance. The protests from the Grand Trunk. office, nevertheless, was used until about Shortly afterward, a junction was 1915, when it was torn down and the last effected between the CNOR Sudbury line and vestiges of the yards and buildings removed. the line being built from Deseronto at During this later period, CNOR freight Todmorden, and the first CNOR through train trains tied up at the GTR’s Cherry Street Yard, from Toronto to Ottawa ran in 1913. The CNOR and freight engines were kept at Main Street built a sizeable yard at Rosedale, at the (Danforth) GTR roundhouse, since torn down. junction of its line with the Belt Line, and Passenger engines, after being forced away rented the old Belt Line offices at that point from Rosedale, used the GTR Spadina Avenue from the Grand Trunk. These were for several roundhouse. years the headquarters of the CNOR Ontario At Little White Otter River, a point Cobourg to Ronnac followed. In 1926, 24 miles 254 miles east of Port Arthur, 616 miles from Greenburn to Todmorden were also north-west of Toronto, and 60 miles north of abandoned. In 1931, the section from White River Station on the CPR Lake Superior Deseronto to Trenton was abandoned, and in District, Sir William Mackenzie, on New Year’s 1932, the section from Trenton to Brighton.
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