Summary

The transcontinental line of the Canadian Pacific Railway originally bypassed Toronto altogether upon its completion in 1885, and passengers would originally make use of a steamship service between Owen Sound and Port Arthur (Thunder Bay). Two decades later in 1905, Canadian Pacific began construction of a more direct rail link between Bolton and the transcontinental line in Sudbury. Humber was the first station north of Bolton on the new line, located on Humber Station Road north of Castlederg Side Road. The first train arrived at Humber when service to Craighurst commenced in November 1906. Traffic would increase once the line was completed to Sudbury on June 15th, 1908. The station building itself was a single-storey wooden structure with a hipped roof and a flared overhang to provide shelter above the platform. It likely did not see any significant amount of use due to its rural location and a lack of nearby settlements. In spite of this, a total of seven trains stopped at Humber Station per day by 1921. The Great Depression would see this reduced to six, followed by a significant increase to ten trains per day by 1940.

The popularization of automobiles and air travel would take a significant toll on passenger ridership across Canada during the postwar era. This process was accelerated by the completion of Highway 400 in 1952, which ran parallel to the railway and served many of the same communities. Where eleven trains would stop at Humber in 1947, this would be reduced to only one train per day by 1962. This was the southbound Dominion, which was previously Canadian Pacific’s flagship transcontinental train until it was superseded by The Canadian in 1955. The Dominion stopped calling at Humber Station the following year, prompting its closure and subsequent demolition.

Condensed Station Info:

Location:	Served By:	Current State:	Date Built:	Date Demolished:
Humber Station Road	Canadian Pacific Railway (1906 – 1963)	Demolished	1906	1963