This is Union Station. It is a picture from Wikipedia, very nice. I have all the ones during construction of Union Station and all along Front Street including the Fairview Royal York hotel and there along at the bottom.
Union Station from when it started (1858), it was the Great Toronto Fire of 1904 and this cleared the area of a third Union Station to be built here. It took until 1927 for the new station to be built. Prince Edward, the Prince of Wales, opened Union Station on August 6, 1927.
It was 1975 that Union Station was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. It was constructed by the Montreal architecture firm of Ross and MacDonald as well as the CPR's architect Hugh Johnes and Toronto architect John M. Lyle.
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| Bikes - Outside the Union Station. For Rent... |
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| Going In... |
The Pigeons are there at Union Station... Tons of them... all male and female trying to get laid. The male birds, all puffed up, trying to get the females to look at them, at least for spring.
And the bicycles, all lined up at the bike station, are to be picked up by people rented them. This is a sight most people don't see.
In 2004, the station saw 2.34 million Via Rail boarders, GO Transit and TTC (subway, streetcars and buses) servicing 200,000 passengers a day. It is the busiest transportation facility in Canada.
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| Trains coming in to the Station |
Great pic of the bixi bikes!
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