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Cornwall Street Railway The Insurance Company’s Streetcars by Anthony Clegg &Om
Cornwall Street Railway The Insurance Companys Streetcars by Anthony Clegg &Omer Lavallee
Copyright 2007
102 pages
Soft Cover
An Illustrated history of the Transit operations of the Cornwall Street Railway Light and Power Company
CONTENTS
5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSSECTION 7
7 INTRODUCTION55 St. Lawrence Park
SECTION 8
SECTION 257 Cornwall Electric Railway Society
9Cornwall's BackgroundSECTION 9
SECTION 363 Cornwall Trolleycoaches
iiCornwall Street Railway Company
SECTION 10
SECTION 471 Two Decades of Electric Freight
17Cornwall Electric Street
Railway Company LimitedSECTION 11
77 Last Day Ceremony
SECTION 5
23 Cornwall Street RailwaySECTION 12
Light & Power Company84 Roster of Rolling Stock
SECTION 6SECTION 13
33 The Thirties and Forties93Bibliography
SECTION 14
94 Authors, Maps and Photo Album
Cornwall Street Railway -- the Insurance Company's Streetcars tells the fascinating story of the electric transit services provided in the eastern Ontario city by the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, which owned the system from its inception in 1886 until the passenger transit facilities were taken over by the municipality in 1970 and the freight switching services were absorbed into the Canadian National Railways system in 1971.
The book, originally prepared by Omer Lavallee and Anthony Clegg to honour the memory of Charles P. DeRochie, was essentially completed in the early 1990s, but publication was delayed due to Mr. Lavallee's untimely death in 1992. It has now been brought to fruition by Railfare DC Books and has been augmented by a selection of illustrations that were previously unavailable.
Those who remember the Cornwall Street Railway will be glad to have this reminder of the trolleys, electric trolleycoaches, and electric switching locomotives that formerly served the city, while the serious students of municipal history and railway operations will be pleased to have a record of the well-known Canadian insurance company's not so well-known operations in the transit field.
The book consists of 102 pages with over 160 photographs. There are five maps which record the growth of the community and another which shows from whence came the Cornwall Street Railway equipment.
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