Early Days in Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill Photo Images
Historic Cemeteries of South York Region
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- Metropolitan Railway
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1 Richmond Hill Photo Images: Car 71 of the
Metropolitan
Railway, southbound through
Richmond Hill,
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2 Richmond Hill Photo Images: Boarding
Metropolitan Car 56 at the
Richmond
Hill
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3 Richmond Hill Photo Images: Metropolitan
Railway (later the
Toronto and York Radial
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4 Richmond Hill Photo Images: Radial
railway station and entrance to the Park
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5 Early Days in Richmond Hill: their grandchildren benefitted from the electric railway that shot up Yonge Street from
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6 Early Days in Richmond Hill: 71 of the Metropolitan Railway, southbound through Richmond Hill,
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7 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Metropolitan brought instant change to Richmond Hill.
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8 Early Days in Richmond Hill: northern terminus for the burgeoning Metropolitan Railway. With favourable provincial legislation, support
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9 Early Days in Richmond Hill: for service beyond Richmond Hill, the Metropolitan Railway in 1899 built a new steam powerhouse at Bond
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10 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Lake, the mainline tracks of the Metropolitan were joined by the Schomberg and
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11 Early Days in Richmond Hill: old Metropolitan (Toronto and York) car barns at Bond Lake,
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12 Early Days in Richmond Hill: map of the Metropolitan Division of the Toronto and York Radial
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13 Early Days in Richmond Hill: 546 metres (about 1800 feet). But the Metropolitan's cars took such grades with relative
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14 Early Days in Richmond Hill: the line. Up and down this line, the Metropolitan's big green cars glided along at average speeds
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15 Early Days in Richmond Hill: on the Metropolitan line at Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie
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16 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Metropolitan Car 56 at the Richmond Hill station,
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17 Early Days in Richmond Hill: station at Richmond Hill. The Metropolitan Railway had little time to enjoy its domination of
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18 Early Days in Richmond Hill: coaches [of the Metropolitan Railway] were painted a dark green, and looked very much
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19 Early Days in Richmond Hill: along the Yonge Street line of the Metropolitan Railway were numbered consecutively from Hogg's Hollow
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20 Early Days in Richmond Hill: is the summer of 1904. The Metropolitan Railway invites us to climb aboard a radial car at the
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21 Early Days in Richmond Hill: fine hotels, and large public halls, the Metropolitan Guide Book singles out the following
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22 Early Days in Richmond Hill: and villages along the line of the Metropolitan," the company brochure reminds us, "electricity
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23 Early Days in Richmond Hill: might the Metropolitan boast of its accomplishments. Statistics for
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24 Early Days in Richmond Hill: for their winter sport. Then in 1899, the Metropolitan Railway purchased the eighty-hectare (two-hundred-acre)
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25 Early Days in Richmond Hill: usual the Metropolitan Railway managers blundered during the two weeks of the
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26 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Metropolitan management has been improving the appearance
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27 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Metropolitan electric car brought hundreds of people
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28 Early Days in Richmond Hill: merrily up Yonge Street, the Metropolitan trolleys took dancers to Bond Lake.
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29 Early Days in Richmond Hill: of electric lighting in 1912. The Metropolitan Railway did not just bring Richmond Hill into
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30 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Street as far as the eye could see, the Metropolitan Railway offered its surplus electricity for lighting and
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31 Early Days in Richmond Hill: April 1897, the Metropolitan advertised its wares by turning on four
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32 Early Days in Richmond Hill: after the lights were turned on in the Metropolitan waiting room, did council express an interest
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33 Early Days in Richmond Hill: and York Radial Railway Company (the Metropolitan's successor) to discuss arrangements. The
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34 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Radial railway station and entrance to the Park
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35 Early Days in Richmond Hill: the bright future promised by the Metropolitan radial railway and the Canadian Northern steam line.
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36 Early Days in Richmond Hill: farmers and shipping it to Toronto by radial railway, where it was used to make ice cream, but that was
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37 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Radial railway station
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38 Early Days in Richmond Hill: to both Canadian Northern and radial railway shipping facilities, he planned to set up a
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39 Early Days in Richmond Hill: work on the radial railway line, October 1927. Toronto Transit Commission As
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40 Early Days in Richmond Hill: when Yonge Street's interurban electric railway reached Richmond Hill in
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41 Early Days in Richmond Hill: its location at the junction of the Metropolitan and Schomberg & Aurora electric railway
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42 Early Days in Richmond Hill: new transportation phenomenon - the electric railway. The electric railway and the
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