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Mapping Toronto’s streetcar network: The age of electric – 1891 to 1921

Post author By Sean Marshall
Post date December 15, 2016
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In 1891, after obtaining a new 30-year franchise, the Toronto Railway Company went to work electrifying Toronto’s streetcar system.

Tags History, Maps, Streetcars, Toronto, Toronto Civic Railway, Toronto Railway Company, Toronto Suburban Railway, Transit, TRC, TTC