(rshsdepot) Canada Day @ Toronto's Don Station

[Derek Boles <derekboles_@_rogers.com>]

Canada Day is this coming Tuesday, July 1. For the third year, the 
Toronto Railway Historical Association will be hosting an open house 
in the Don Station at Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum and Arts Centre 
from 12 NOON to 4 PM. As many of you are aware, the station is not 
often open to the public.

The Canadian Pacific Railway opened Don in 1896. The station was 
originally located on the west bank of the Don River south of Queen 
Street. In 1906 the Canadian Northern Railway began using Don, as did 
their successor Canadian National after World War I. After World War 
II, Don declined in importance as a passenger station although it 
continued to issue train orders for both CP and CN trains until the 
station was closed in 1967. In 1969 the Don Station was moved to the 
Todmorden Museum. Preparations are currently underway to move the 
station to the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre at Roundhouse Park.

Our special guest this year will be John Mellow, who was an operator 
at the station in the 1960s and who is working with the TRHA to 
restore and interpret the building. TRHA President Orin Krivel will 
also be in attendance and Derek Boles has prepared a display of sixty 
photographs depicting the history of railways in the Don Valley as 
well as some other facilities so as to give the little station some 
context. Derek wrote an article on the CPR in the Don Valley last 
year for the publication CP Tracks.

Information on Todmorden and directions on how to get there can be found at:

http://www.toronto.ca/todmorden/about.htm

Derek Boles
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