8.0 References

8.1 General References

• Andreae, Christopher, Lines of Country: An Atlas of Railway and Waterway History in Canada, Erin, Ontario: The Boston Mills Press, 1997.
• BC PUC. Annual Report of the Public Utilities Commission Pursuant to Section 36 of the Motor Carriers Act, for the Legislature sessions 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, and 1953. (Each report generally contains information for the year before its publication). Available online.
• B.C. Transit 1988. B.C. Transit 1988 brochure outlining their Victoria and Small Communities operations.
• B.C. Transit 1989/90. Transit Facts 1990. B.C. Transit information booklet listing 1990 operating information and 1989 statistical information.
• B.C. Transit 1996. Public Transit in British Columbia. B.C. Transit Web pages, 1996.
• B.C. Transit 1997. Personal email correspondence with Steve Segal at B.C. Transit dated
• B.C. Transit 2000. BC Transit Municipal Systems - Transit Systems, a world wide web page at the URL: http://www.transitbc.com/munsys/msystems/index.stm, 2000.
• Brander, Robert Bruce, The Potential for Public Transit in the Commuter-shed Areas of Calgary and Edmonton, University of Calgary, Master of Science (Civil Engineering) thesis, Calgary (Alberta), 1978. [Brander 1978].
• British Columbia Archives. On-line photograph archives at the URL: http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/   1997.
• CC. Canadian Coach, also titled Canadian Coach Magazine, published by Transit Canada (formerly the BC Transit Society). Continued by Transit Canada (viz. TC infra). Volume IX, 1973, reviewed on microfilm. Volumes I through X, 1965 through 1974 accessed in originals or photocopies.
• Chow, Raymond. Local transit Services, a world wide web site at the url: http://www3.sympatico.ca/czg/translocal.html, 1998-2000. (Listing of contact telephone numbers and web sites for southern Ontario transit systems.)
• Clegg, Anthony, Self-Propelled Cars of the CNR: Endurance, Economy, and Speed, Pickering: Railfare DC Books, 2005.
• Coffee, John M., Jr., and Harold V. Ford, The Atwood – Coffee Catalogue of United States and Canadian Transportation Tokens, Fourth Edition, Volume One: The Listing, Boston: The Catalogue Committee of the American Vecturist Association, 1983.
• CR&MW. Canadian Railway and Marine World. Industry periodical covering most aspects of transportation in Canada. Issues for 1931, 1932 and 1933 surveyed.
• CTH. “History of Transit,” chapter 2 of the Canadian Transit Handbook, 2nd ed., 1985, CUTA.
• CTHF/SSG 1993. The Street Side Guide to Urban Transit Fleets in Canada, 1993 edition, Toronto: Canadian Transit Heritage Foundation, 1994.
• CTHF/SSG 1995. The Street Side Guide to Urban Transit Fleets in Canada, 1995 edition, Toronto: Canadian Transit Heritage Foundation, 1996.
• CTHF/SSG 1998. The Street Side Guide to Urban Transit Fleets in Canada, 1998 edition, Toronto: Canadian Transit Heritage Foundation, 1998.
• CTHF/SSG 2000. The Street Side Guide to Urban Transit Fleets in Canada, 2000 edition, Toronto: Canadian Transit Heritage Foundation, 2000.
• CTHF/SSG 2011. The Street Side Guide to Urban Transit Fleets in Canada, 2011 edition, Toronto: Canadian Transit Heritage Foundation, 2011.
• CTHF/SSG 2015. The Street Side Guide to Urban Transit Fleets in Canada, 2015 edition, Toronto: Canadian Transit Heritage Foundation, 2015.
• CUTA 1976-77. The membership list of the Canadian Urban Transit Association for 1976-77.
• CUTA 1988. List of operating members contained in Urban Transit Facts in Canada: 1988 Data. CUTA Toronto, Feb. 1990.
• CUTA 1989. Canadian Urban Transit Association Membership List for 1989.
• CUTA 1990. List of operating members contained in Urban Transit Facts in Canada: 1990 Data. CUTA Toronto, January 1992. The list is dated 09 September 1991.
• CUTA 1991/2. CUTA Membership Directory 1991-92, Canadian Urban Transit Association, 1991.
• CUTA 1992. List of operating members (and Ontario non-members) contained in Summary of Canadian Transit Statistics: 1991 Data. CUTA Toronto, January 1993. The list is dated November 1992.
• CUTA F. The Canadian Urban Transit Association's monthly publication CUTA Forum ACTU, from 1991.
• CUTA TT. The Canadian Urban Transit Association's monthly publication Transit Topics.
• \maps. In 1987 the City of Winnipeg Transit System collection of transit system maps and guides was examined, recording system names, and addresses. While the data collected was undated, some of that information has been included here.
• CYB. The annual Canada Year Book published by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. This publication (from 1905) included a list of the operating electric railways in Canada, eventually listing which were municipally run and the closure dates for electric railway operations. The CYB was consulted from 1905 to the mid 1940s.
• Dorman. In 1938, the federal Department of Transport published A Statutory History of the Steam and Electric Railways of Canada 1836-1937, compiled by Robert Dorman. This reference was scanned for information about Canadian animal, electric, and street railways and tramways incorporated, authorized, dissolved or otherwise the matter of statutory reference in Dominion, Provincial or Territorial legislation. (Dorman apparently neglected all legislative reference to animal or electric railways or tramways in the Maritimes, since none, not even Halifax or Saint John, are listed.)
• Dawes et al. 1972. Universe of Bus and Motorcoach Companies: A List of Carriers in Canada, Report 48, by Peter Dawes, Christopher H. Prentice and Brian E. Sullivan, published by the Systems Analysis Branch, Canadian Transport Commission, Ottawa (Ontario), October 1972. “This report presents a universe or list of all `Canadian Bus companies or authorities engaged in intercity, rural or urban common carriage, scheduled and unscheduled'.” ---Dawes et al. 1972 p. 3. It lists 1060 bus operators but neither their service localities nor service types.
• Due. The Intercity Electric Railway Industry in Canada by John F. Due, published by the University of Toronto Press, Toronto (Ontario), 1966. This book is an economics study of the interurban railways of Canada, and necessarily discusses the common origins that industry shared with urban transit.
• Gillis, Robert A., Scheduled Motorcoach Service in Nova Scotia 1922-1990: A Study of the Effects of Government Regulation on the Industry, MA thesis, St. Mary's University, 1992.
• JB 1997. Transit historian Jean Breton. Electronic correspondence via Jacques Matte, 1997.
• JM 1997. Personal electronic correspondence with Jacques Matte of Québec, 1997.
• Lavallée, Omer, Narrow Gauge Railways of Canada, Montréal: Railfare Enterprises Limited, 1972.
• Lawrence, Loring M., “The Bus that Brantford Built: The Story of Fitzjohn in Canada,” Bus Industry (Bus History Association), Vol. 26, No. 100, October 2012, pp. 22-53 and 55-56.
• Luke, William A. and Linda L. Metler, City Transit Buses of the 20th Century: A Photo Gallery, Hudson, WS: Iconografix, 2005.
• Lundberg, Murray, "Arctic/Northern Culture: Rails to Riches", a WWWeb site at the URL http://arcticculture.about.com/culture/arcticculture/library/yafeatures/bl-rails.htm, 1999.
• Martin. On a Streak of Lightning: Electric Railways in Canada by J. Edward Martin. Studio E, Delta (British Columbia), 1994.
• McGraw Electric Railway List: August 1918, New York: McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., 1918 (reprinted 1970 Harold E. Cox, Forty Fort, PA)
• Miller, William E., Electric Lines in Southern Ontario, a world wide web site at the URL: http://www.trainweb.org/elso/, 1997.
• Mills 1967. Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto: History of the Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto Railway by John M. Mills. Upper Canada Railway Society, Scarborough (Ontario) and Ontario Electric Railway Historical Association, Toronto (Ontario), 1967. This book covers the histories of the Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto and Niagara Falls Park and River interurbans, the Ontario Southern Railroad, and the local services in Niagara Falls, Welland, and Saint Catharines.
• Mills 1977. Traction on the Grand: The Story of Electric Railways along Ontario's Grand River Valley by John Mills. Railfare Enterprises Limited, Montréal (Québec), 1977. This book covers the histories of the Grand River, Grand Valley, Lake Erie and Northern, and Woodstock, Thames Valley and Ingersoll interurban railways, and the Brantford, Guelph and Kitchener city systems.
• Mills 2010. Ontario's Grand River Valley Electric Railways, Railfare*DC Books, Montreal (Quebec), 2010.
• Parberry, Darren, GTA (Greater Toronto Area) Transit Information, a world wide web page at the URL: http://gtatransit.freehosting.net/ 2000.
• Perera 1973. The Transit Systems of Small Cities in Ontario, Research Report No. 39, by Maximus H. Perera. Published by the University of Toronto/York University Joint Program in Transportation, Toronto (Ontario), 1977. Perera states “There are 47 cities, towns and townships in Ontario with public transit systems.” (p. 12) but provides a list of 49 municipalities receiving transit operating subsidies from the provincial government. Accounting for Kitchener and Waterloo as two places sharing one system, that still leaves one extra on his list. An appendix also contains a name-and-address list of contacts.
• Peschkes, Robert, World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus and Rapid Transit Systems: Part Four: North America London: Rapid Transit Publications, 1998.
• Regiec, Alex, and Dennis Cavanagh, History of Intercity Buses: Manitoba & Saskatchewan, a World Wide web page at the URL: http://www.mts.net/~amregiec/welcome.htm .
• Regiec, Alex, Dennis R. Cavanagh, and David Anthony Wyatt, Dusty Trails To Divided Highways: A History of Intercity Bus Lines in Manitoba, Winnipeg: Rest Stop Press, 2006.
• RFC. Personal correspondence from transit historian Ray F. Corley of Scarborough, Ontario, 21 September 1995.
• RS. Personal correspondence from Robert Saxon of Princeton, NJ, 16 May 1994, 25 July 1994.
• Shortreed. Urban Bus Transit: A Planning Guide edited by J.H. Shortreed and published by the Transport Group, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo (Ontario), May 1974.
• Scrafton et al. 1970. The Inter-City Motor Coach Industry in Canada by Derek Scrafton and Susan van Steenburgh, published by the Transportation Policy and Research Branch, Ministry of Transport, Ottawa (Ontario), April 1970.
• Sotnyk 1981. Transportation Compendium: A Statistical Review of Ontario Transportation by B. Sotnyk, published by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Toronto (Ontario), November 1984. (1981-82 transit data, much from CUTA).
• Stamp, Robert M. Streetcars, Subways and Rapid Transit: A Canadian Bibliography. Heritage Books, Toronto (Ontario) 1988.
• Stephens. Iron Roads: Railways of Nova Scotia by David E. Stephens. Lancelot Press, Windsor (Nova Scotia), 1972.
• Stevens, John R., ed., Pioneers of Electric Railroading: Their story in words and pictures. Headlights vol. 51 & vol. 52, 1989 - 1990. New York City: Electric Railroaders' Association, Inc., 1991.
• TBB. Databook II, Trolley Bus Bulletin 109. North American Trackless Trolley Association, 1979. This work lists detailed information about Canadian (and American) trolley bus systems, including dates of commencement and termination, and names of system operators.
• TC. The periodical Transit Canada was published from 1975 to 1978 continuing the earlier Canadian Coach (viz. CC supra). TC has been surveyed for system references.
• TNC. The periodical Transit News Canada has been surveyed (for most issues) for mention of transit systems and cities with transit systems.
• TJ. The Transit Journal Published in the United States by Macgraw-Hill from 1931 to 1942.
• Transit Report. A monthly publication of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics (DBS). This publication occasionally made note of events in Canadian transit, usually only by city name and not carrier. Library holdings included only volumes 7 and 8 (1953 and 1954), CS53-D. Was replaced in 1955 by the monthly DBS/Statistics Canada Urban Transit Report (CS53-002) which appears not to mention particular cities or systems.
• APR. Transit observer Alex P. Regiec of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
• pb. Phone books.
• other. Transit histories have been published for some cities. Where these have been used (a function of their availability) they are cited under the individual cities.

8.2 City References

Airdrie

Asbestos & Danville Electric Freight Railway

Banff

Bathurst

Battleford - North Battleford

Beaumont

Belleville

Bell Island

Brampton

Brandon

Brantford

Calgary

Centre Wellington

Charlottetown

Chatham-Kent

Cobourg

Cornwall

Courtenay

Drumheller

Durham Region

Edmonton

Edmundston

Flin Flon

Gatineau

Grande Prairie

Guelph

Halifax

Hamilton

Iqaluit

Kamloops

Kentville

Kingston

Kitchener - Cambridge

Lacombe

Laval

Lethbridge

Lévis

Lillooet

Liverpool & Milton Tramway

London

Midland

Mississauga

Moncton

Montréal

Banlieues de Montréal

Moose Jaw

Nelson

New Glasgow - Trenton (Pictou County)

Niagara Falls

North Bay

Oakville

Ottawa

Peterborough

Pinawa

Prince George

Portage-la-Prairie

Port Alberni

Québec

Red Deer

Regina

St. Albert

St. Catharines

Saint John

St. John's

St. Stephen

Sarnia

Saskatoon

Sault Ste. Marie

Sherbrooke

Sherwood Park

Sudbury

Sydney

Temiskaming Shores

Thompson

Thunder Bay

Tillsonburg

Toronto

Toronto Region

Trois-Rivières

Vancouver

Victoria

Welland

Windsor

Winnipeg

Winnipeg Region

Woodstock

Yarmouth

Yellowknife

York Region

Québec Rural Paratransit Services

Nova Scotia Rural Paratransit Systems

Wilderness Tramways

Canadian Paper Electric, Street and Radial Railways