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Bonaventure Station is the name of several railway stations located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ==Grand Trunk Railway== Named for its location on Saint Bonaventure Street,〔()〕 now Saint Jacques Street, the first Bonaventure Station was built in 1847 as the main terminal for the Montreal and Lachine Railway. The structure was leased by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1864 to provide access to the downtown for that company; GTR subsequently purchased the station and incorporated it as the railway's Montreal terminal. In the 1880s, the Intercolonial Railway began using Bonventure Station as its western terminal for service running from Halifax, Nova Scotia and other points in the Maritimes (see ''Ocean Limited''). Montreal was a city ripe with speculation from real estate developers during the railway boom from the 1880s to the early 1910s. The Canadian Pacific Railway constructed Windsor Station soon after the company was formed, with the Richardsonian structure opening in 1889. Railways at the turn of the 20th century considered their terminal stations to be "prestige projects" and GTR was no different when the company began to seriously consider building a replacement for Bonaventure Station in 1900. A design for the new Bonaventure Station was commissioned by Chicago architects Charles S. Frost and Albert Hoyt Granger; however, in the end the new station was never built as the GTR began to focus on its Grand Trunk Pacific transcontinental railway project. In 1910, the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) came to town and secretly purchased three entire blocks of downtown Montreal property for a major terminal and real estate development to coincide with the construction of its Mount Royal Tunnel. A temporary terminal facility was constructed to coincide with the tunnel project; however, financial difficulties at CNoR resulting from declining traffic levels following the commencement of World War I delayed completion. On March 1, 1916, a fire broke out in the GTR's Bonaventure Station. Firemen from Fire Station No. 3 on Ottawa Street arrived fast enough to save most of the building from complete destruction. The GTR was in a dire financial situation and could only replace the original ornate roof with a flat one. On August 23, 1948, an explosion followed by a massive fire destroyed most of the Bonaventure Station's freight yards. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bonaventure Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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