The Cover Photo: No less than six of Toronto’s well maintained Peter Witt car fleet (2768, 2830, 2482, 2506, 2932 and 2462) await their next runs at St. Clair Division (Wychwood) carhouse on September 6, 1953.  Purchases of second-hand PCC cars and the opening of the YONGE and UNIVERSITY

Thank you to everyone who visited the Canadian Transit Heritage Foundation booth at the Toronto Railway Museum during this past August long weekend! It was fantastic to share our passion for transit history with so many enthusiastic visitors. We hope you enjoyed exploring and learning as much as we did!

The original light rail trains in Edmonton and Calgary are now over 40 years old – in Edmonton’s case, the U-2s will be 50 years old before they are retired later this decade.  In celebration of this milestone and to commemorate the evolution of light rail in two of North

The Cover Photo: Mississauga Transit 8605, a hometown product of course, departs the Square One Mall Transit Centre on the Streetsville North route.  The Orion 01.508 joined the fleet in 1986 as part of the rapid expansion that Mississauga Transit has gone through to meet the needs of a rapidly

The Cover Photo: Sherbrooke Coach Manufacturing Company “new look” transit bus #305, model CD-66-51, and sporting a GM emblem on the front, pauses at the downtown transfer point on King Street while on route 18, June 1975.  Although the coach bears a strong resemblance to a certain General Motors parlour

Ted Wickson, March 23, 1944 – January 21, 2024 Edward Arthur Killaly Wickson was born in Ottawa on March 23, 1944, to Amy (Bowker) Wickson and Authur Killaly Wickson.  Arthur was employed with the National Research Council in Ottawa.  Ted’s family moved to accommodate his father’s work.  Arthur found employment

CTHF President Chris Prentice presented a Brief History of Automatic Transmissions in Buses on Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:00PM Eastern. Did you know that before the advent of automatic transmissions, city bus drivers had to change gears up to 2400 times per day? Imagine the repetitive strain on arms

Alexander John (Sandy) Casey We are saddened to advise of the passing of past CTHF director, Sandy Casey on Monday December 4, 2023.   Born in Belleville, Ontario in 1940, Sandy was a founding director of the Canadian Transit Heritage Foundation and was active on the board until retiring five years

The Cover Photo: One of the first buses purchased by the new Greater Winnipeg Transit Commission (GWTC) in 1954 is seen running westbound on Portage Avenue, just west of Main Street in the late 1950s.  The big Flxible Twin Coach (model FT2D-40) seated 52, and was intended to duplicate the