Why did homeowners on Belgrave Avenue keep digging up railroad ties in their backyards?
(Chapter 31…The Traction Line)
…………….Just out of living memory now, senior residents of the area recalled for many years the happy childhood times waiting for the train at the corner of Belgrave and Tecumseh Avenues. Here, people gathered on a makeshift platform on the north-west corner, then boarded the train, headed to Port for a Sunday School picnic. As children at the time, they did not know that this activity caused quite a fuss, since it contravened the Lord’s Day Act. The resulting court battle over Sunday travel, in 1912, was finally decided in favour of the railway, and the fun times continued, but not for long.
(Chapter 31…The Traction Line)
…………….Just out of living memory now, senior residents of the area recalled for many years the happy childhood times waiting for the train at the corner of Belgrave and Tecumseh Avenues. Here, people gathered on a makeshift platform on the north-west corner, then boarded the train, headed to Port for a Sunday School picnic. As children at the time, they did not know that this activity caused quite a fuss, since it contravened the Lord’s Day Act. The resulting court battle over Sunday travel, in 1912, was finally decided in favour of the railway, and the fun times continued, but not for long.