No. 482 JANUARY - FEBRUARY 19i3 CANADIAN RAIL PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY BY THE CANADIAN RAILROAD HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION EDITOR:•• Fred F. Angus For your membership in the CRHA. which includes a CO-EDITOR: Douglas N. W. Smilh subscription to Canadian Rail, write to: PRODUCTION: A. Stephen Walbridge CRHA, 120 Aue St-Pierre, 5 1. Constant, Que. J5A 2G9 CARTOGRAPHER: William A. Germaniuk Rates: in Canada: $30 (including GSn . LA YOUT: Fred F. Angus outside Canada: $27.50 in U.S. funds. PRINTING: Procel Printing r--------- TABLE OF CONTENTS WHERE TO NOW, CRANBROOK? ................................................... MIKE WESTREN........ ... ...... ... 3 A BRIEF HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF FAIRVILLE STATION ........... HAROLD WRIGHT ................... 13 MEDITATIONS IN A LOWER BERTH .. .............................................. BRUCE HUTCHiSON ............... 20 THE DAY THE PR INCE OF WALES RODE THE CRL & P ................. FRED F. ANGUS .. ................... 22 DRAWINGS OF CANADA'S RAILWAYS IN WORLD WAR 11.. ........... THURSTAN TOPHAM............. 27 QUR REV ISED ByLAWS.................................................................. ....... ............................................. '28 BOOK REVIEW (V ICTORIA & SIDNEY RY . BY DARRYL MURALT). DO UGLAS N.W. SMITH .. .. .. ..... 34 THE BUSINESS CAR .. ................ ............. ............... .. ............. ............ ............................................ ...... 35 Canadian Rail is continually in need of fleWS, stories, historical data, photos. maps and other material. Please send all contributIOns 10 the edilOl': Fred F. Angus, 3021 Tra/algar Ave. Montreal. P O. H3Y lH3. No payment can be made lor comrlbutions, but the comributefwil! be given credit for material submitled. Matena! will be returned to the comributor it requested. Remember "Knowledge is of titlle value unless it is shared with others". NATIOI'JAL DIRECTORS Frederick F. Angus Huguas W. Bonin J. Christopher Kyle Douglas N.w. Smith Jack A. Beatty Roben Carlson William La Surf Lawrence M. Unwin Charles De Jean Bernard Martin Richard Viberg Walter 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 meetings FR ONT COVER: Canadian NmiOlwl and issue newsleuers. Further inlormation may be obtained by writing to the division. Railways £,/O-a Mogul 902 heading II NEW BRUNSWO< DIVISION CALGARY '" SOUTH WESTERN DIVISION in'ighl (rain Iltor HamillOlI. Onlario on po eo.. 1162 00 · 111(10 -4'111 AveH.E. SairJI..iohrI H e E21 4G7 c.I(pry• ....,.,. T2A 5ZS Augusl 10, /944. 902 ~gall lift ill 1910 .... ·hell. as GrmldTrlIllk 1000. il .... ·os buill AOCKV UQUNT...... OMSION ST LAWRENOE VAUEY DlVISlON po. Bo>; 11102, s.ion"C" po. Box 22, '1t' by Ihe K in~s(ol/ LocomO/;\·t IVnr.h s.-. E<)-nooIon. AlIeNo T58 2NO I.b1IrMl PO. ti38 3J5 (builder's l/J/mlHr 913). La/er CNR 902 . SEU<IRK DIVISION il was rCl1llllriwrcd 80 ill OClOber 1951 . RIDEAU VAlLEY OMSION P.O. 80.39 p.o. eo. ge2 ~.B.C VOE2S0 and was scrapped ill AI/gusl J957. SmIIh', F.... 0nI. 1<7A 5A5 CAQWSNEST '" KETTLE VALLEY DIVISION Pallerson • Gtor~t Col/ecfioll. P.O . 8a.~ KINGSTON OMSKlN Cra<ItlrooI<., B.C. V'c 41-151 PO, 80. 103. SIadM'A" KrqsIon. Onl. K7M ePII NEl.SCN ELECTRIC TRAMWAV SOCEn' As part of Its activities. lhe CRHA operates 123V_S1JMC the Canadian Railway Museum at Delson I Nelson. B C. V1 L2V8 TORONTO a YORK DlVISKlN 51. Constant, Que. which is aboutt4 miles PO S&lQ. T.......... 'A' eo.. PRINCE GEORGE·NEO<AKQ-FRASER DIVISION T1lfOrtO. O!"C. I.I5W I P3 (23 Km.) from downtown Montreal. 1\ is P.O. 80. 2.t08 Prina.> a...o.Qt. B,C V2N 2S6 open Irom late May to early October (daily NIAGARA DIVISION until Labour Day). Members. and their im­ P.O. eo. W3 PAC1F(: COAST DIVISION Sl. ~"- Onl. L2A 61'/8 PO. eo. 1006. SlaIIctI'A' mediate 'amilies, are admitled free 01 charge. _______________'~ ~.e .c veG2Pl GCW.. ~ TIE ASSOCIATlON TIE CCllLECTlON. PflESERVATIOIi AKJ DISSaIINATION ~ ITEMS RELATING TO nE HISTORY OF RAILWAYS IN CNWlA Page 34 RAIL CANADIEN JANVIER - FEVRIER 1993 Book Review Reviewed by Douglas.N.W. Smith. VICTORIA AND SIDNEY RAILWAY: 1892-1919 1919. It is ironic that both the Canadian Northem and BC Electric lines which were completed during the closing years of World War by Darryl E. Muralt I, both had a much shorter life span than the V &S. All railway service on Vancouver Island's Saanich Peninsula ceased by the Price: $31.20 postpaid, including GST. mid 1930's. Publisher: British Columbia Railway Historical Association Author Muralt has produced the definitive history of the Box 8114, VCPO V &S. In 1966, the British Columbia Railway Historical Association Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3R8 (BCRHA) published a short history of the line entitled The Cord wood Limited. The volume became one of the best selling books ever written on a The Victoria and Canadian rail way and has Sidney was one of the been reprinted several many small railway times. The BCRHA companies which existed THE VICTORIA sponsored this new work in Canada prior to the ANDSIDN EYRAI LWAY to commemorate the turn of the century. 100th anniversary of the Formed in an era before 1892·1919 V&S. Mr Muralt has the rise of the automobile, produced an it provided a vital link exceptionally detailed carrying both travellers history of the railway and freight over the 19 which illuminates many miles between the two areas which could not be communities in its covered in the modest corporate title. After the 80 pages of the original tum of the century, the .' edition of The Cordwood V &S became an outpost Limited. Nautical fans of the Great Northern will be pleased with the Railway empire. It was in-depth coverage of the connected to the GN and steamships, car ferries, the main land by a car tugs and car barges ferry and barges. For a operated as connections brief period, the V &S and to the V&S. The text is GN combined to form a prodigiously footnoted through route between and is supplemented by Victoria and Vancouver. several handsome maps, Following the conclusion a chronology, financial of the battle between statistics, many James Hill and Sir photographs, and a William Van Horne to comprehensive index. secure control of the trade of the southern portion This 236 page soft­ of the province in the early cover book is 1910's, the line faced recommended to anyone difficult times. The with an interest in Canadian Northern and railways and shipping British Columbia Electric during the Victorian and Railways built lines Edwardian eras. This parallel to the V &S while book should serve as a autos, jitneys and trucks model for other authors appeared on the primitive roads in the region. Cast off by the GN aspiring to write the histories of the many other small railways to avoid paying off a large mortgage, the V &S was abandoned in which at one time dotted the Canadian landscape. JANUARY - FEBRUARY 1993 CANADIAN RAIL Page 33 PRESIDENT, SHALL PRESIDE AT ALL MEETINGS OF THE 59. CHEQUES ON THE BAL"lK ACCOUNTS, DRAFTS DRAWN MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION AND ALSO AT ALL MEETINGS OR ACCEPTED BY THE ASSOCIATION, PROMISSORY NOTES OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND SHALL EXERCISE A GIVEN BYIT,ACCEPTANCES, BILLS OFEXCHANGE,ORDERS FOR GENERAL SUPERVISION OVER THE AFFAIRS OF THE THEPA YMENTOFMONEY AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS OFA LIKE ASSOCIATION. 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