Canada’s 1967 centennial logo outlined in snow at Westmount park.

(Photograph shown on TWN)

Former Canadian Pacific Railway’s (C.P.R.) Westmount station and C.P.R. Westmount News Stand on Saint Catherine Street. The station has been boarded up for decades.

From:
· Heritage Character Statement, Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Westmount, Quebec, August 1994. Heritage Assessment Report RSR-221, 1993.

“Recognizing the strategic value of Westmount Station as a company image in an affluent suburb, the CPR put its chief architect, W. S. Painter, in charge of the station’s design. He created an elegant red-brick structure whose architectural form was distinguished by turrets crowned by a pavilion roof and whose composition was based on a balanced distribution of openings. Its original design was among the most successful of the CPR’s medium-sized stations. In 1923 a glass shed was built on the southwestern side of the station to protect the access to a sub-terranean tunnel, and in 1927 the northeastern side was extended to expand interior public space. While these additions respect the general character of the building, they have disturbed its original symmetry.

The Westmount station’s environment remains relatively intact today. Its site landscaping and access routes have changed little over time, and longstanding railway elements of the site (the lines and Glen Bridge and switching yard) are still present.

Heritage value of the Westmount CPR station resides in its architectural form and composition, and in its historical and site relationships to its community”.

W. J. Hunter residence (1897) – telephone operator.

D.A. Doty Canadian Express Company (1897) – Formerly the Dominion Express Company

From: http://torontorha.blogspot.ca/2010/04/exploring-walmsley-collection-part-3_28.html

“The Dominion Express Company was incorporated in Winnipeg in 1873 and taken over by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1884, when the headquarters were moved to Toronto. The company provided the first all-Canadian express route between Eastern and Western Canada.
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Dominion’s principal competition was Canadian Express, which had connections with the U.S. Wells Fargo and American Express companies. The Canadian Express Company operated mostly over the lines of the Grand Trunk Railway and built an express facility adjacent to Toronto Union Station in 1884. CEC introduced the first money order service in Canada in 1891. In 1921, CEC was taken over by the Canadian National Express Company”.

J. P. Fitzsimmons residence (1897) – clerk Grand Trunk Railways.

Lynn T. Leet of Lynn T. Leet & Company (1897) – Composite stone & brick company.

J. T. Gilmour of Gilmour & Kearns (1897) – Early book publishers.

W. H. Hope residence (1897) – picture framer.