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Title: City of London, Ontaro, Canada. The pioneer period and the London of to-day
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Bremner, Archibald, 1849-
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Publisher: London, Ont. : London Printing & Lithographing Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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year of $3,651.66. The MichiganCentral Railroad was given running powersover the road north of St. Thomas in 1886,and still retains this privilege. On the lapse,by effluxion of time, of the lease to the Great Kenzie, Crowell Wilson, and Cyrenius D.Hall. It is not generally known that, bar-ring a few short lines without passengertraffic, which operate between mines and theseaboard, the proportion of earnings to work-ing expenses, and the earnings per train mile,are greater on the Fort Stanley than on anyother railroad in Canada. In 1870 the proj-ect of the London, Huron and Bruce Rail-road was first publicly mooted, and in 1871 120 CITY OF LONDON, the citizens voted for a by-law giving a bonus stub line, running from the main line at of $100,000 to that line. The road was opened St. Marys. The first Grand Trunk depot was in 1875, and in the following year was located on the south-eastern outskirts of the amalgamated with the Great Western sys- city. It was an old frame shed, used alike
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Jt.iltX CHKlSTIi;. wv. Elijah Liconabd, Mayor 1857. (Sec Senators, page 132.) JOIIV CAMPBELL,_ 1872..80-8L C. S. Hyman, Mayor 188L (See M. P.s, page 131.) EX-MAYORS OF LONDON. tem. London was connected with the Grand for freight and passengers, but soon gave Trunk in the building of that road westward place to a brick structure which is still stand- from Toronto, in 1859, but the London branch ing and used as a mercantile ■warehouse, was what is known in railroad parlance as a The location was inconvenient, however, and ONTARIO, CANADA. 121 the passenger station was removed to an old then became the central point of a railway wooden shed at the junction of Bathurst and system radiating to the four cardinal points -BurweJl streets with the Hamilton Road, of the compass, and for all practical purposes ims was destroyed by fire in 1872, and was to the whole thirty-two points. In 1887 the

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