Toronto's stagecoach terminal was in the Coffin Block on the triangular lot at Front and Wellington, where the Gooderham (Flatiron) Building is now. Weller's stagecoach operation disappeared after the Grand Trunk Railway opened its Montreal-Toronto line in October 1856. 3/3

Under less than ideal conditions—which was most of the time—it was not unknown for those walking the route to arrive before the coach. Most people chose to walk as the six dollar stagecoach fare was equivalent in price to taxi fare between Toronto and Kingston today. 2/3

Parkdale Station was opened in 1878 by the Northern Railway of Canada, later passing to its corporate successors the Grand Trunk and CN. The former CN Parkdale was Toronto's oldest railway station at its demise, having survived until a year short of its 100th anniversary. 2/2

Prior to 2003, 7,000 daily passengers boarding GO buses at Union Station had to line up on Front Street. The site of the 2003 terminal was replaced with the 50-storey north tower of CIBC Square, which topped out in January of 2025. 3/3

The new facility replaced the old GO bus terminal that had opened on March 3, 2003. It had been located north of the Union Station Rail Corridor, behind the Dominion Public Building, on the site of the former Canadian Pacific Express building between Bay and Yonge Streets. 2/3

Now almost forgotten, the GWR was one of Canada's most important mid-19th century railways. It was absorbed by the Grand Trunk in 1882. The former GWR line west out of Toronto, later known as CN's Oakville Subdivion, now carries GO Transit Lakeshore West trains and is owned by Metrolinx. 3/3

The line was built by the Hamilton & Toronto Railway, a subsidiary of the GWR, which wanted to make Hamilton into Ontario's railway hub. At first the "Toronto Branch" was considered a secondary line, intended to feed traffic into the GWR's Niagara Falls to Windsor mainline. 2/3

We will miss your dad a lot. He was involved with the Toronto Railway Historical Association from the early years of its existence and played a huge part in our preservation and interpretation of Don Station and the Canadian Pacific Railway Belleville Subdivision dispatcher's board.

The Montreal Santa Claus Parade was held a week later than the Toronto parade so there was sufficient time to ship the floats by train. Eaton's kept sponsoring the Toronto parade until 1981, when—facing financial woes—it turned it over to a consortium of local businesses. 3/3

Santa arrived at Union Station at 9:59 AM and drove with Timothy and Margaret Eaton to the Queen Street store, perched on a packing crate. After Eaton's took over Goodwin's department store in Montreal in 1925, it also held an annual parade in that city until the late 1960s. 2/3

The two closed stations were replaced by a new temporary station at Sunnyside, itself replaced by a more substantial structure in 1912. The four-track former GTR right-of-way is still used by GO Transit Lakeshore West trains and is one of Canada's busiest railway mainlines. 3/3

The six-mile (9.7 km) grade separation eliminated thirteen road-rail level crossings west of downtown by building four bridges and nine underpasses. As a result of this project the former Great Western Railway stations at South Parkdale and Swansea were both eliminated.