Toronto - Union Station

Toronto's huge main railway station belonging to the Canadian National Railway Company was opened in 1927 by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII). Today it stands as a reminder of the vigor of the Canadian economy in the 1920s when vast quantities of rail freight in the form of wheat, timber, cellulose and non-ferrous metals passed through Toronto. Passenger traffic, especially holidaymakers traveling by rail, also provided important business until well into the 1950s. Nowadays the station is the terminus for fast inter-city trains from Montréal, Ottawa and New York (via Niagara Falls), as well as express services to the Canadian West and northern Ontario. Union Station is also the hub of a local fast transport system serving