1946  Photograph taken by Juliet Chisholm during her stay in China # 52 Soldiers and civilians under parasols in rain - enroute from Yayang to Changsha. June 1946.

    From left to right: Frank Ruddell, Ken Pell, Elmer Pell, Gordon Brigden, Wally Thomson. Pulled on Frank Ruddell Wagon, July 1961

    As per the booklet by Irene Saunders, "As I Recall" ; Recollections of Years Gone By, ca2010, the Grand Trunk Railway laid the line in 1871 and it changed ownership to the Canadian Pacific Railroad in 1914. The Hornby Station was on the east side of Trafalgar Road (Seventh Line). The station...

  1913,   The little boy holding the whip is Victor Wilson of Sheridan. Circa 1913. The train was used by area farmers to take produce into the large Toronto market. Victor's parents and grandparents owned farms in Sheridan, Trafalgar Township, just a few kilometres west. The Clarkson station was just...

  1919,   Dr. Lorne A. Lyon member of the 75th Battalion returning home.

    Winter scene of a steam train in Limehouse.

    Main Street, Limehouse. Note the train tracks Limehouse On.

    Steam train at the Limehouse Station. Search options:train, railway, railroad, track.

    The rail road in Limehouse with logging road (and logs)in the foreground. Search options: train, railway, railroad, rail, track.

    Railway Lumber Cars sit on the siding with the Newton saw mill, woollen mill and lime kiln in the background.

    Barber Brothers Paper Mills, Georgetown with railroad bridge and tracks running in front of factory.

  21 May 1964  Smith and Stone strikers blocking a train from unloading.

  13 Sep 1962  Railroads signalling in Georgetown.

  23 Aug 1962  Aerial view of railroads crossing at paper mills. This crossing is now closed.

  17 Dec 1913  John McDonald's Coal depot across from rail yard.

  1949  Photograph of Alliance Paper Mills Ltd. Note the crossing to the left and the Canadian National Railway tracks that run through the picture. Alliance Paper Mills Ltd. operated in Georgetown from 1910 to 1977. Physical details: excellent condition - no creases or silvering. Scalloped edges on...

  1949  Photography of Alliance Paper Mills Ltd, Georgetown. Note the Railway crossing to the left and the Canadian National Railway train tracks that run through the picture. This image is not as clear as that of EHS No. 24 which is the same view. Alliance operated in Georgetown from 1910 to 1977. ...

    Grand Trunk Railroad Station, Acton. Beardmore warehouse (Old Hide House) stands on right. The Acton train station shown was erected in 1908 and the Beardmore Warehouse was erected in 1899. (Ontario Archives Acc 9339 No. 866)

  1920  Electric railway locomotive, built in 1901. Note the wooden body. It belonged to the Galt, Preston & Hespeler Street Railway and was car number 10. It was eventually rebuilt and renumbered as Grand River Railway #222. Physical details: copy of photograph. Note the smudged fingerprint to the...

  1930  The Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto Electric Railway car crossing Twelve Mile Creek in St. Catharines, behind McKinnon Industries. McKinnon Industries is now the General Motors Plant 1 on Ontario Street. Physical details: very good condition.

    Grand Trunk Railway Station in Brampton

    Canadian Pacific Railway Station at Hornby. Hornby Station was demolished July 1962.

    John Street GTR bridge showing culvert for Dayfoot pond. see photo #622

  c.1900  Grand Trunk Railway iron bridge taken from the east bank of the Credit looking across the trestle towards Georgetown. G.T.R. Iron bridge, Georgetown, Ont

  19 May 1966  Victoria Secco and a Steam Engine at the Georgetown Train Station.

  4 Feb 1965  Steam Locomotive at Georgetown Station. On the left of the photo is Ross Colter with sons Doug and Jim standing beside him.

    A Hamilton North-Western train travels south into the Grand Trunk junction at Georgetown.

  1914 - 1918 

  1923 

  18 July 1923  The shadow of Garfield Walker's cap is visible in the foreground.

    A laser print of an original photograph. The railway transported clay and pipes.

  ca 1930s  Also a laser print of an original, 26.7 cm by 19 cm, in the Ross Taylor collection.

  15 November 1926  In 1919 the Ontario Canning Company, owned by Dave Hyslop, opened in Freeman. By 1925 the cannery was called Hyslop; later its name was changed to Tip Top Canners. It was sold to Stuart House in 1963 when Mr Hyslop retired.

  1953  Aerial view, looking west, of the railway crossing at Waterdown Road and its environs. A digital image with number key and annotations by Keith Thornborrow 1 Lemonville Road railway bridge; 2 Panin commune farm (perhaps Hutterite); 3 Guerney Spring & Steel; 4 Aldershot Cold Storage; 5 Allan...

  1954,   Looking north west. Railway tracks in the middle foreground, Nicholson's Lumber and Halliday Homes, Lockhart Road on the left running into Maple Avenue.

  ca 1920,   A print from a negative in the National Archives of Canada. John Boyd (1865-1941), amateur photographer, railway official. Born Emyvale, Ireland, 1865-12-22. His family emigrated to Toronto in the late 1860s. Flourished Toronto, 1870s-1941. Boyd worked for both the Grand Trunk Railway and...

  ca 1920,   A print from a negative in the National Archives of Canada. John Boyd (1865-1941), amateur photographer, railway official. Born Emyvale, Ireland, 1865-12-22. His family emigrated to Toronto in the late 1860s. Flourished Toronto, 1870s-1941. Boyd worked for both the Grand Trunk Railway and...

  18 July 18 1923,  

  c. 1907  Photograph of two men in canoe on pond with railway bridge in background and trees on either side of the picture. Photograph pasted on decorated board. Black and white but hand-coloured. Labelled "View in Milton Park, showing G.T.R. Bridge". This photograph, together with three others, form a...

  c. 1907  Black and white photograph, hand-coloured mounted on board. View taken in Milton Park, showing pond with small man-made waterfall in foreground and C.P.R. Bridge in the background. Underneath the picture is "View in Milton Park, showing C.P.R. Bridge, Milton, Ont." Milton Park is now known as...