Rails Across Ontario by Ron Brown

Author:Ron Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2013-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

Havelock

Despite the Canadian Pacific Railway’s rush to demolish its heritage, it did leave a couple of fine stations standing in the Peterborough area. That in Havelock, a divisional town, was opened in 1929. The first station was a standard Van Horne style, built on the Ontario and Quebec Railway in 1888. With the opening of an extension to Port McNicoll in 1912, Havelock grew in importance. But by the time the new station had opened, the CPR’s new lakeshore route was diverting most of the earlier traffic away from the older route and the role of the town diminished.

Built of yellow brick on a concrete foundation, the station displays a wide bell-cast roof with overhanging eaves. A prominent gable rises above the operator’s bay window. After the CPR vacated the station it stood vacant until a restaurant operation moved in, preserving much of the interior elegance, such as the cove ceiling, the terrazzo floors, and much of the woodwork. The building remains a prominent landmark for the highway entrance into the town.

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