All-Time List of Canadian Transit Systems
by David A. Wyatt
Cornwall, Ontario
Principal System
Cornwall Street Railway Company (no operation?)
Incorporated by letters patent 11 November 1885 (Ont.) and authorized by Cornwall town council 14 December 1885.
Reported in Poor's Manual for 1889, 1890 and 1891 as operating two steam dummys and four trailers, but
Clegg & Lavallée's research did not find local reference to the operation. Reportedly “street cars for the street railway had sat in the Grand Trunk yards for years after their arrival, unused, then one day they simply vanished” (web ref. 2010).
Curiously, CESR numbered
it's cars starting at 5.
(Clegg & Lavallée 2007, p. 11).
Cornwall Electric Street Railway Company (07 July 1896 - 1902)
Incorporated 1896 (Ont.) in response to a franchise granted by the Town of Cornwall, 28 December 1895.
Company forclosed by bondholder the
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, who reorganzed and
rechartered the enterprise as the CSRL&P. (Miller 1997)
Cornwall Street Railway, Light and Power Company, Limited (1902 - 31 December 1970)
Conversion from street cars to trolley buses 1949. Electric railway freight operation continued until 1971, shortly
after its acquisition by
CN Rail. (photos W.E. Miller, Peter Cox)
(Dorman, CYB 1905-1921, Canadian Coach 1973).
![Cornwall Transit 7829 (GM T6H-5307N new look) (Bernard Drouillard 1987 Aug 11 [Peter Cox coll.])](pics/cornwall-CT7829gmnl-bdrouillard1987aug11.jpg "Cornwall Transit 7829 (GM T6H-5307N new look) (Bernard Drouillard 1987 Aug 11 [Peter Cox coll.])")
