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Buses that were built in Canada Pages in category "Buses of Canada" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Toronto Transit Commission Flyer trolley bus no. 9228, operating on route 63-Ossington, 1987. This is a list of trolley bus systems in Canada by province. It includes all trolley bus systems, past and present.
The Flyer 700/800/900 series were a series of transit buses built in three generations by Western Flyer and its successors Flyer Industries and New Flyer, of Canada, between 1967 and 1987. Except for brief overlap during transition from one generation to the next, they were not in production concurrently.
Government organizations across Canada owned 17,852 buses of various types in 2016. Organizations in Ontario (38.8%) and Quebec (21.9%) accounted for just over three-fifths of the country's total bus fleet.
1941 Western Flyer. New Flyer was founded by John Coval in 1930 as the Western Auto and Truck Body Works Ltd in Manitoba. The company began producing buses in 1937, selling their first full buses to Grey Goose Bus Lines in 1937, [1] before releasing their Western Flyer bus model in 1941, prompting the company to change its name to Western Flyer Coach in 1948.
Buses of Canada (19 P) C. Bus companies of Canada (1 C) G. Greyhound Lines (52 P) I. Bus incidents in Canada (14 P) T. Trolleybus transport in Canada (3 P)
By 1954, Vancouver had the largest trolley bus fleet in Canada, with 327 units, [3] and the fleet grew to an all-time peak of 352 in early 1957. [4]: 20 There were 19 routes by 1955 and a peak of 20 by the second quarter of 1957. The last route to open in the 1950s was the only express trolley bus service that ever existed in Canada.
In early 2012, the STM announced a plan to convert its entire fleet of buses over to all-electric by 2025. Beginning in 2012, all STM bus purchases will be either hybrids or electrics and, starting in 2011, Montreal will begin testing trolley buses (electric buses powered by overhead wires) on some of the city's busiest routes. [4]