General

Station Name: Stayner, a.k.a. Dingwall, Nottawasaga
Subdivision: Meaford
Milepost: 22.75
Station Symbols: W
Train Order: D
Office Signals: AY
Sidings: 20 (mileage 22.57 to 22.84)
Other Tracks: 42
  • McColl Frontenac Oil: S.4 (mileage 22.59 off Siding)
  • Reliance Petroleum: N.4 (mileage 22.80 off Siding)
  • X: NS.26 (mileage 22.53 to 22.86)
  • Y: S.16, (mileage 22.56 off X); 2 car cattle pen
Location: (Simcoe County, Nottawasga Township)

Chronology

Date Event
1857c Around 1857, the village, but not the post office, was named Dingwall, after a lumber entrepeneur living in the area[Simcoe County Online, April 4, 2002]The station, however, remained Nottawasaga into the 1860s based on a ca. 1860 NRC time table[Walker-1953, p. 8]. The station appears as Stayner in a ca. 1902 GTR time table[GTR-1902, pp. 32-33]. Perhaps the station was redesignated after the H&NWR and NRC began operating jointly as the N&NWR to avoid confusion with Nottawa station on the H&NWR's Beeton to Collingwood line[Speculation]..
1863c NRC constructs:
  • Agent's Dwelling: 23'6"×28'6"×11', frame, shingle roof, sill foundation to which a 14'×18'6"×11' addition is subquently constructed;
  • Shed: 12'×26'×12', frame, shingle roof, to which 8'×12'×9' addition is subsequently constructed; and
  • Shed: 6'6"×14'×6'
[GTR.ND.1907, p. 171].
1864c Seven years later, the village was once and for all, renamed Stayner, in honour of Thomas Stayner, the deputy postmaster general, from 1848 to 1849[Simcoe County Online, April 4, 2002].
1874c NRC constructs:
  • Station: 22'×42'×16', frame, shingle roof, sill foundation;
  • Shed: 22'×48'×13', frame, shingle roof, sill foundation with 4578ft2 platform; and
  • Freight and Grain House: 40'×202'×13' , frame, shingle roof, sill foundation with 2232ft2 platform
[GTR.ND.1907, p. 171].
1878 Appears as Stayner[NRC-1878].
1898c GTR constructs:
  • Oil House: 11'×14'×8', frame, shingle roof
[GTR.ND.1907, p. 171].
1888-03-23 Stayner incorporated as a town[Simcoe County Online, April 4, 2002].
1902c GTR remodels station[GTR.ND.1907, p. 171].
1951-09-30/1966-04-24 Mileage 22.5, McColl-Frontenac Oil Co., S.4[CNR.CR.NOD.99/28; CNR.GLR.NOA.29/43].
1951-09-30/1966-04-24 Mileage 22.8, Reliance Petroleum, N.4[CNR.CR.NOD.99/28; CNR.GLR.NOA.29/43].
1954-04-25/1954-06-27 Water removed[CNR.CR.NOD.8/9].

Photographs

Date Image Notes
1914-01
Andrew Merrilees Collection / NAC / B-019777		 Interior of GTR station.
n.d.
W. MacLaren Wilson photo		 Station.
n.d. (prior to 1979)
Elizabeth A. Willmot photo		 Station.
1984-08
Gene Burles photo		 Station.
1984-08
Gene Burles photo		 Station.
1984-08
Gene Burles photo		 Station.
1984-08
Gene Burles photo		 Station.
1984-08
Gene Burles photo		 Station.

Drawings

Date Reference Railway Subject Description
1955-11 CNR Track plan.