Dalhousie station (Canadian Pacific Railway)

For Dalhousie Square in Kolkata, India, see B. B. D. Bagh.
Dalhousie Station in 2006.
Dalhousie Station in 2006.

Dalhousie Station (French: Gare Dalhousie) is a former railway station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Built in 1884, the building stands at the corner of Notre-Dame Street and Berri Street in what is now Old Montreal. The oldest surviving railway station building in Montreal, Dalhousie Station was named after George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, who was Governor General of Canada from 1825 to 1828.[1]

Although the terminal location was originally purchased by the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway, all construction was done by the Canadian Pacific Railway after it purchased the QMO&O in 1882. Dalhousie Station thus became the original eastern terminus for CP Rail.[2][3]

The station building has been the home of the Cirque Éloize since 2004.

  1. ^ "Square Dalhousie". Vieux-Montréal (in French). City of Montreal. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
  2. ^ Coolopolis, April 18, 2007
  3. ^ Tom Grumley, "Montreal's Major Rail Terminals" Archived August 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine