Photo of the day: Bus to Vancouver leaving from Phillips Square
This bus appears headed all the way to Vancouver from downtown Montreal in 1937. Vancouver was pretty much on the edge of the universe back then and hopping a long ride with no bathrooms must have been a job for the most determined.
The trip would have gone through parts of the United States as there wasn't yet a paved road all the way across Canada in 1937. I'm assuming this is the Colonial Coach Lines that would later become part of the Voyageur-Colonial system.
Bus terminal site still a parking lot...nothing erected there since its movement to Dorchester & Drummond in the 50s. Yes, Colonial Coach Lines of Ottawa became part of the Power Corp holdings that then became Paul Martin's via CSL. Voyageur Colonial is still an operating permit, owned by Greyhound, now part of First Coach. The Ottawa-Toronto route of Voyageur was sold off to Coach Canada, part of the StageCoach Group. Voyageur 1969 Inc. was the Quebec operating unit that became Orleans Express.
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Can anyone access the Conrad Poirier collection?
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The trip would have gone through parts of the United States as there wasn't yet a paved road all the way across Canada in 1937. I'm assuming this is the Colonial Coach Lines that would later become part of the Voyageur-Colonial system.
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Bus terminal site still a parking lot...nothing erected there since its movement to Dorchester & Drummond in the 50s. Yes, Colonial Coach Lines of Ottawa became part of the Power Corp holdings that then became Paul Martin's via CSL. Voyageur Colonial is still an operating permit, owned by Greyhound, now part of First Coach. The Ottawa-Toronto route of Voyageur was sold off to Coach Canada, part of the StageCoach Group. Voyageur 1969 Inc. was the Quebec operating unit that became Orleans Express.
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