The history of Toronto's lost railway system

The history of Toronto's lost railway system Toronto Railway

A year before becoming mayor of Toronto, Horatio Hocken stood before the city's Board of Trade to urge support for a subway beneath Bay Street.

As long as the city continued to expand, they thought, there was money to be made establishing new suburban residential communities with convenient transportation links to the centre of the city. The company planned to subdivide and sell lots in Moore Park, Forest Hill, Fairbank, Fairbank Junction, and Swansea as well as providing a rail link to Union Station via two new lines.The main 26.5 kilometre loop ran east along the main waterfront corridor, up west side of the Don Valley and Moore Park ravine through Mt. Pleasant Cemetery and over Yonge.

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