Davenport station (Ontario)

For other uses, see Davenport railway station.
The 2nd Davenport Station, in 1863.

The Davenport railway station was first constructed in 1853 on the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Railway, the first railway in Ontario, Canada.[1][2] The original building was replaced by a brick station in 1857. It was located on Caledonia Park Road, just north of Davenport Road, in the former community of Davenport, a former satellite community of Toronto, Ontario that has long since been annexed into Toronto.

The station lay south of a scarp marking the ancient shoreline of glacial Lake Iroquois, and at the edge of the bay at the mouth of the Humber River.[3][4]

It was demolished shortly after the construction of the St. Clair Avenue Station in 1932.[5]

Preceding station Canadian National Railway Following station
Downsview
toward North Bay
 North Bay – Toronto Parkdale
toward Toronto
  1. ^ "All aboard Toronto: Davenport Station". Toronto Public Library. Archived from the original on 2010-05-03. Retrieved 2012-02-03. In 1853, a few miles outside of Toronto a small shed was built as a passenger station for the Ontario, Simcoe & Huron (later Northern) Railway, Toronto's first railway... This Davenport Station, built in 1857, was located north of Davenport Road on Caledonia Park Road.
  2. ^ Derek Boles (2009). Toronto's Railway Heritage: Images of Rail. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-6570-5. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
  3. ^ Canadian Methodist magazine, Volume 8. W. Briggs. 1878. Retrieved 2012-02-03. This brow of table-land extends westward to where now is the Davenport railway station, on the N. R., and retreating northward, extends to the west beyond my explorations, or knowledge.
  4. ^ Annual report of the Ontario Department of Mines, Volume 41. Ontario Department of Mines. 1932. Retrieved 2012-02-03. are formed of rather low morainic hills, and since wave action was feeble in the sheltered waters inside the bar, their exact position is hard to determine. In the map the edge of the bay is made to come between the 400- and 425-foot contous of the topographic map, and runs irregularly north from Lambton to Weston, bends a little northeast in the valley of Black creek, and then turns southeast to Davenport railway station.
  5. ^ "Davenport Station". Toronto Public Library. Retrieved 25 February 2013.