Throwback Thursday is sponsored by Haycock-Cavanagh Funeral Home:
It’s Throwback Thursday once again!
Here is an old photograph of the Electric Railway that was constructed in Southern Ontario between Wallaceburg, south through Chatham, to Lake Erie.
The first line from Wallaceburg to Chatham was working November 1905. The rail movement stopped March 1930. Little trace of the railway remains today.
Picture details – Electric Railroad c. 1905 people included in this photo are: Chester McGregor, Herb burgess, P T Berry, Joesph Shaw, Hugh stonehouse, Mr. McKenzie, Albert Harrison, John Anderson, Robert riddell, J H Fraser. J Quennel, Dr. Knight, Captain Steinhoff, Alex Bourne, Harry Mitchell, Bernard Mahn, Dr. A Robertson, Charles Colwell, Frank Hinnegan, Charles Benn
Thanks to Wallaceburg and District Museum for the photograph!
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