Leaside station (CP Rail)

Leaside station is a former railway station in Toronto that served Leaside and Thorncliffe Park. The Canadian Pacific Railway built the station in 1894 to serve the new community of Leaside, on a railway line leased from the Ontario and Quebec Railway.[1]

This article is about the 1894 railway station. For the TTC station on Line 5 Eglinton, see Leaside station.
Leaside
Original CPR station in 1899
LocationVillage Station Road,
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Coordinates43°42′16″N 79°21′22″W
Owned byMetrolinx
History
Opened1894
Closed1982
Rebuilt1946
1946 station built in the International Style

That wooden frame structure burned down in the 1940s and was replaced by a more contemporary building in 1946. Passenger service ended in 1982,[2] a few years before Via Rail’s Toronto to Havelock route was discontinued.

History

The first railway company to come to Leaside was the Ontario and Quebec Railway, in the 1870s. The Canadian Northern Railway purchased some land north of that in 1906, for a locomotive repair shop and marshalling yard.[3]

When the CPR built a new line, connecting Leaside Junction down through the Don Valley[4] via Don Station to Union Station in 1892, it gave the station more prominence and enabled additional train service.[2]

Between 1975 and 1983 the building was operated by CP Hotels for the Village Station Restaurant and for a short time after that was used as a CPR business centre and CPR Police office.[5]

Under Metrolinx's regional transportation plan, The Big Move, consideration has been given to providing through GO Train service to Seaton from Union Station. The earlier MoveOntario 2020 plan was to serve Peterborough by way of the Midtown Corridor.[6]

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References
  1. An Act to confirm the lease of the Ontario and Quebec Railway to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, and for other purposes, S.C. 1884, c. 54, confirming the "Indenture of lease: The Ontario & Quebec Railway Company to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company". January 1884.
  2. Hatherly, Tara (17 April 2013). "LEASIDE 100: Railways helped to build community". East York Mirror. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  3. Wainwright, Kaitlin (April 26, 2013). "Leaside and the Railway". Heritage Toronto. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  4. Brown, Edward (29 September 2010). "A Walk Along the Don Valley Railway". Retrieved May 9, 2017. In 1888, the CPR was granted permission to build a branch line from Leaside Junction to Bay Street.
  5. Kennedy, R.L. "Old and new Leaside Stations". Canadian Pacific Railway, Toronto Division. Old Time Trains. Retrieved May 9, 2017. In April of 2009 the property was sold to the province for future GO service
  6. MacDonald, Hatch Mott (February 2010). "Peterborough Rail Study: Final Report" (PDF). Metrolinx. Retrieved May 9, 2017. The former Leaside Station location adjacent to Millwood Road would also be relatively close to the proposed LRT station at Millwood Road and Overlea Boulevard.

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