Again from the Library of Congress/Detroit Publishing Co. collection, today is a view of Devonshire Road looking north from about 1912. The Bank of Commerce on the left hand side was designed by Albert Kahn, and built in 1906.
As always it’s the details. A nice view of the Walkerville street light, and two gentlemen on the front steps of the bank.
A partial view of the front of the old train station. The Walker Power Building to the rear was built in 1911, and designed by Stahl, Kinsey, and Chapman. Note the “cars stop here” sign at the junction. Maybe Bernie can explain the use of the sign?
Lastly a view of the Crown Inn building and the home today of Talooa Cafe, occupied then by The Dominion Bank.
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Pretty interesting folks. I'm with Bytown Railway Society (out of some place called Ottawa), but have just joined the Toronto and York division of the Canadian Railway Historical Association, so I'm "brushing up" on the rest of Southern Ontario, e.g., Windsor/Walkerville. I read somewhere (wish I could recall exactly) that C&O ran a mixed passenger & freight on a 3-times-per-week 'tween Walkerville & St. Thomas, but maybe only as far as Chatham. Of interest, though, was on a return journey to Walkerville it ran into an open switch and struck some cars at -- I think -- Canadian Bridge Company's siding. Gay mentions trains 17 and 18 and he's a member of the P.M. historical society, so maybe his group will have more info.
Oh. Excuse the typo, it's "Gary"...
Great picture. Great building. I bank there and love going in.
i came into posession of a book recently that deals with the railroads that helped bring windsor into existance there's a short chapter about the Pere Marquette railroad apparently passenger service on that line dropped off so drasticlly that in 1932 passenger service was reduced to a coach on the end of regular freight trains hence the mixed but by 1942 this practice was discontinued all togeather ending passenger service all togeather