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

Bond Lake Park

Key to map:

Bond Lake Park in the 1920s, adapted by Janet Allin from a 1986 map prepared by Mary-Lou Griffin.

S 35. Stop 35 on the radial railway line

1. Gatehouse, station and sawmill (top to bottom), with station platform to the left

2. Washrooms

3. 12691 Yonge Street, a "cottage" built in 1936 by Robert Clifford and Edith Belle (Hodgson) Gamble

4. Pavilion

5. Boathouse

6. Wading pool

7. Merry-go-round

8. Pavilion, moved, now a three-car garage for Mrs. Edith Evelyn (Gamble) Clarke

9. House of Mrs. E.E. (Gamble) Clarke, 12673 Yonge Street

10. Pine log shute, used circa 1880s

11. Radial car repair barn

12. Power station, dynamo house, smoke stack - 12485 Yonge Street

13. Michael Clarke's house, 12611 Yonge Street

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