Toronto, ON: 1916 CP 1916 North Toronto and 1927 Union Stations

North: (Satellite, 1,089 photos)

Union: (Satellite, 6,677 photos)

Street View, Sep 2023

Old Toronto Series posted
North Toronto C.P.R. Station at Yonge Street, east side, between Price St. & Shaftesbury Avenue in 1916.  Now a LCBO.
Glenn Brown shared

Jim Gibson: What is an LCBO?

Andrew Stiffler: Jim Gibson Liquor Control Board of Ontario. The Government of Ontario's state-owned liquor stores.

LostRivers
"Canadian Pacific opened its new North Toronto Station on June 14, 1916. It was located in midtown Toronto, where its main rail line crosses Yonge Street and was its main Toronto passenger station until the present Union Station was opened in 1927....Three years after the new Union Station opened the North Toronto Station was closed for passenger service, except that it did open its doors for the train carrying the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1939. CP Rail stopped using this station altogether in the 1980s."

trha
The original station opened in 1884.

AtlasObscura, BECKYHTO
In 1930, three years after the Union Station opened, CP terminated passenger service at this station. "In May 1939, the station briefly re-opened for one day to accommodate a visit from King George VI and his consort Queen Elizabeth on their first visit to Toronto. The last rail passengers to transit through the station were returning soldiers from World War II."

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Union Station

Street View, Sep 2021

Willie B. Hardigan, Feb 2009

LostRiver
"When it was built it was the largest enclosed space in Canada."

The platforms are still covered.

Satellite