Category: Galt

Galt, Preston and Hespeler Electric Railway 
Near the Galt, Preston and Hespeler Electric Railway junction
Preston, Ontario Canada (circa 1905)

Of course Preston no longer exists, nor do Galt or Hespeler. The province decided to impose amalgamation of the three towns into the shiny new city of Cambridge.  Today residents still resent that, and even now many continue to identify themselves as residents of the original settlement.   

Back then, we had better public transit in Southern Ontario–more than a century ago–than we do now.  At that time they built streetcars in Preston.

Today’s ION streetcar system in Kitchener and Waterloo is years behind schedule opening because Waterloo Region has had to wait for Bombardier to get around to delivering ours.  Yay.