Railway development.

Projected lines, surveys, construction, betterments, etc.

...

Toronto union station.—The matter of the expropriation of the lands south of Front St., in the burned-out district of Toronto, by the G.T.R., as a site for a new union station, has been before the Railway Commissioners on several occasions, and a special sitting of the Commissioners was arranged to be held in Toronto on Dec. 22, to give further consideration to the matter. The G.T.R. desired to have the matter adjourned until Feb., in order to endeavor to complete negotiations with interested parties but objection was taken to this course by leaseholders and others. Press reports stated that the C.P.R. and the G.T.R. had asked several Toronto architects to prepare plans for the new station. Enquiry among the architects failed to gather that any of them had been furnished with any data on which to prepare plans, and one of the principal officials of the G.T.R. told a Toronto architect, who asked for information on the subject that the matter had not been sufficiently advanced to permit of plans being asked for. (Dec., 1904, pg. 431.)

Railways: C.P.Ry., G.T.Ry.

Stations: Toronto

Results