Early Days in Richmond Hill: A History of the Community to 1930 : electronic edition. : Rails through Richmond Hill

Chapter 10 Rails through Richmond Hill

Table of Contents

	Title Page
	Author's Preface
1	The Road through Richmond Hill
2	First Peoples on the Land
3	The European Settlers Arrive
4	From Miles' Hill to Richmond Hill: The Birth of a Community
5	Tories and Reformers
6	Stagecoach Lines and Railway Tracks
7	The Neighbours at Mid-Century
8	Fire Brigades and Fence Viewers
9	Picture Post Card Village of the 1880s and 1890s
10	Rails through Richmond Hill
	The Radial Railway Arrives
	A Ride on the Big Green Cars
	Stops along the Line
	Bond Lake Park
	Through the Highlands of York to Bond Lake Park
	Radial Days in Richmond Hill
	Summer Romance at Bond Lake Park
	Electrical News at the Turn of the Century
	Electric Lights for the Village
	Steam!
	Heritage sites in New Gormley
	" Gormley Gleanings"
	The Belated Arrival of the Age of Steam
11	The Flowering of Richmond Hill
12	The Village Transformed
	Epilogue
	Appendices
	Table of Illustrations
	Index

Stops along the Line

Stops along the Yonge Street line of the Metropolitan Railway were numbered consecutively from Hogg's Hollow north to Sutton. The stops within the boundaries of present-day Richmond Hill were:

Stop 19 Langstaff Road

Stop 20 Garden Avenue

Stop 21 Westwood's Lane

Stop 22 Edgar and Oak avenues

Stop 23 Lot 40

Stop 24 Mill Road

Stop 25 Richmond Hill(Lorne Avenue)

Stop 26 Richmond Hill High School(Wright Street)

Stop 27 Canadian National spur line

Stop 28 Elgin Mills

Stop 29 Orange Home

Stop 30 Wright's Gate

Stop 31 Gamble's

Stop 32 Summit Golf Club

Stop 33 St. John's Anglican Church

Stop 34 Burnabie's and Legge's Gate

Stop 35 Bond Lake Park

Stop 36 Schomberg and Aurora Junction

Stop 37 Smith's Gate

Stop 38 Oak Ridges Post Office

Stop 39 Hulme's Gate

Stop 40 The Pinnacle (highest point on Oak Ridges)

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