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The Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway (TG&B) was a railway company which operated in Ontario, Canada in the years immediately following the Canadian Confederation of 1867. It connected two rural counties, Grey County and Bruce County, with the provincial capital of Toronto to the east.
The Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway (WG&BR) was a railway in Ontario, Canada. It ran roughly northwest from Guelph (in Wellington County ) to the port town of Southampton (in Bruce County ) on Lake Huron , a distance of 101 miles (163 km).
Canadian National Railway: Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway: CP: 1868 1998 St. Lawrence and Hudson Railway: Toronto and Guelph Railway: GT: 1851 1853 Grand Trunk Railway: Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway: TH&B, THB CP/ NYC: 1884 Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway: Toronto and Nipissing Railway: GT ...
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This left an opening for the formation of the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway (TG&B), which began construction toward Owen Sound in the spring of 1869. Faced with their first real competition, the Northern chartered their own North Grey Railway on 15 February 1871, with plans to extend out of Collingwood to Meaford and authority to continue to ...
The history of Southampton is intertwined with the history of the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway (WG&B). The original 1856 charter for what was then known as the Canada North-West Railway called for a line "... from Southampton on Lake Huron to Toronto on Lake Ontario with branch to Owen Sound[.]" [15] The railway was intended to both serve the local area and to provide a through route to ...
The station was located on a branch line built in 1868 by the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway Company (TGBR) that rented it to the Ontario and Quebec Railway Company in 1881. The Canadian Pacific leased the Ontario and Quebec Railway Company in perpetuity in 1884. As a branch of the Owen Sound subdivision, the line winds through the area from a ...
George Laidlaw (February 28, 1828 – August 6, 1889) was a businessman who promoted the development of narrow gauge railways and was invaluable in the chartering of the Toronto and Nipissing (with which his own Victoria Railway would soon compete) [1] and the Toronto, Grey and Bruce railways in 1868.