Transportation

Montreal and Southern Counties Railway

--February 20, 2019.

Transit service to the South Shore

Gare du Canadien Pacifique / Canadian Pacific Railway station, Campbell's Bay, vers / circa 1920

Ancienne carte postale photographique, vers 1920. / Early photographic postcard, c.1920.

Montreal -- Le dirigeable R-100 et le pont Jacques-Cartier, 1930 / The Blimp R-100 over Jacques Cartier Bridge, 1930

Ancienne carte postale photographique, 1930. Collection privée. / Early photographic postcard, 1930. Private collection.

Centreville de Lennoxville, au coin des rues Queen & College, vers 1908 / Downtown Lennoxville, corner of Queen & College Streets, c.1908

Carte postale, peinte à la main, vers 1908. Notez le tramway! / Hand-tinted postcard, c. 1908. Note the streetcar!

By Train to Morin Heights

The coming of the train in the 1890s ended the almost complete isolation of Morin Township.

The train brought in the first summer, then all year, visitors to Morin and started a lively tourist industry, especially with the development of skiing in the 1920s.

Laurentian Rest, Morin Heights

Laurentian Rest was one of several large boarding house

Gare / Train station, St-Lin

Ancienne carte postale photographique. (Collection privée) /
Early photographique postcard. (Private collection)

Goélette vue d'une navire, Gaspé, vers les années 1920 / Schooner viewed from the deck of a steamship, Gaspé, c.1920s

Goélette vue d'une navire, Gaspé, vers les années 1920. Carte postale ancienne.

Gare de Bonaventure / Bonaventure train station

Ancienne carte postale des années 1930. (Collection privée). /

Sir Casimir Gzowski, great-grandfather of Canadian broadcaster Peter Gzowski, and engineer for the St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railway, forerunner to the Grand Trunk, built this trestle over the St. Francis River at the north end of Richmond in 1852.

(Photo courtesy of the Richmond County Historical Society Archives)

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