All-Time List of Canadian Transit Systems
Ontario Communities (A - B)

Barrie, Ontario

T.R. Huxtable (? - ?)
Reported operating one route wholly within Barrie as of circa February 1926 (CR&MW March 1926, p. 146).

Greer Transportation (? - September 1972)
Private operator replaced by municipal service (Canadian Coach 1973).

Barrie City Transit (September 1972 - present)
(CUTA 1976-77). Contractor of operations and maintenance in 1972/73 was Stock Brothers Bus Lines, a division of Travelways (Canadian Coach Vol IX, No. 4, July/August 1973) Contractor in 1976 was Travelways (Transit Canada 1976). Operated from 1980 to July 1987 by Penetang-Midland Coach Lines Limited and from July 1987 by Travelways. (CUTA 1989, CUTA 1991/2 lists Barrie Transit, CUTA 1992, Chow 1998, photo: Bernard Drouillard [Peter Cox collection]).

system logo	Service area population	50,000 (1991)
	Ridership	2,568,000 (2009)
	Vehicle fleet	23 buses (2000)
	Employees	2 (municipality) (1991)
	Data source:	CUTA 1991/2 CTHF/SSG 2000 Mike Rivest 1998 (logo) CTF [Aug. 2010] (ridership)

Bolton, Ontario

Caledon Transit Inc. (01 April 1999 - August 1999)
Commercial service operating in Caledon Township, the northern third of Peel County. (The southern and middle thirds being Mississauga and Brampton respectively.) (CTHF Bulletin May 1999)

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Data source:

Caledon Transit Website (www.caledontransit.on.ca) 1999 (logo)

Métis Transit Ltd. (30 January 2006 - mid-February 2006)
Unsubsidized private enterprise serving Caledon East, Palgrave, Bolton, and part of Malton (Bus Industry, Vol. 21, No. 80, June 2006, pp. 13-14).

Brampton, Ontario

Principal System

Collacutt Coach Lines (? - Spring 1929)
Suburban Toronto - Brampton service acquired by Gray Coach Lines (Canadian Coach 1969).

Parkinson Coach Lines (1949 - 12 September 1953)
Operation owned by Bob Parkinson. Acquired the Malton - Brampton route from West York Coach Lines Limited 1949 (Kennedy). Sold in February 1953 to Cliff Tracy who moved operations to Owen Sound September 1953 (Bateson). The DBS Transit Report for October 1953 (Vol. 7, No. 10) stated that the transit company in Brampton had gone out of business that month.

Streetsville Transportation (late 1953? - 1965?)
Operation owned by Bruce Rundle (Bateson).

Parkinson Coach Lines, Ltd. (1965 - 1969)
Operation owned by the Murray brothers (Bateson). (RS).

Georgetown Transportation Company (1960s? - spring 1973)
Private operator acquired by Travelways. Canadian Coach 1970 cites that Charterways Transportation Limited operated in Brampton.

Travelways (spring 1973 - 1974)
(Canadian Coach 1974).

Brampton Transit (1974 - present)
Municipal operation by the City of Brampton. Also called Brampton Transit System. (CUTA 1976-77 lists City of Brampton). Bus rapid transit introduced Fall 2010 under the marketing name Züm (pronounced “zoom”). (Bateson, Perera 1973, Sotnyk 1981, \maps, CUTA TT89, CUTA 1989, CUTA F91, CUTA 1991/2, CUTA 1992, Chow 1998, photos: Peter Cox collection, Alex Regiec).

system logo	Service area population	225,000 (1991)
	Ridership	12,294,230 (2009)
	Vehicle fleet	93 buses (2000)
	Employees	175 (1991)
	Data source:	CUTA 1991/2 CTHF/SSG 2000 Mike Rivest 1998 (logo) CTF [Aug. 2010] (ridership)

Bramalea System

Bramalea Dial-a-Bus (13 August 1973 - 31 December 1973)
Serving Bramalea, an unincorporated community in Chinguacousy Township. Municipality merged into Brampton 01 January 1974 (Transit Canada 1975). (Perera 1973, Shortreed)

References

• Bateson, Paul A., "An Olympian Transit System: A Short Review of Brampton Transit", a World wide web page at the URL: http://www.angelfire.com/ca/TORONTO/history/Brampton.html, 2000, 2001.

Brockville, Ontario

Brockville City Bus Lines Ltd. (1970s?)
(Canadian Coach 1972, Dawes et al. 1972).

Brockville Transit (? - present)
(Transit News Canada 1985, pb89, CUTA 1989, CUTA 1991/2, CUTA 1992, pb96, Photo David A. Wyatt 2009). (not in Sotnyk 1981).

Burlington, Ontario

C.H. Norton Bus Lines (? - circa 1973)
Private operator prior to municipal management (Canadian Coach Vol. IX, No. 3, May/June 1973).

Burlington Transit (circa 1973 - present)
Operator NBL acquired by Travelways circa 1974 (Canadian Coach 1974). Transit Canada 1975 says municipal startup 1975, probably meaning municipal operation. (CUTA 1976-77, CUTA 1989, CUTA 1991/2, CUTA 1992, Chow 1998)

system logo	Service area population	124,000 (1991)
	Ridership	1,860,825 (2009)
	Vehicle fleet	46 buses (2000)
	Employees	94 (1991)
	Data source:	CUTA 1991/2 CTHF/SSG 1998 CTF [Aug. 2010] (ridership) website 2010 (logo)