Grand Trunk: First Class Passenger Ticket, Watford ON to Grimsby ON, 1914

Archive

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Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Centre

Name/Title

Grand Trunk: First Class Passenger Ticket, Watford ON to Grimsby ON, 1914

Entry/Object ID

2021.1765.01

Tags

Canadian National, Grand Trunk, Railway Pass

Scope and Content

Grand Trunk Railway branded first class passenger ticket. It was valid for a trip from Watford Ontario to Grimsby Ontario. It had to be used by June 4th, 1914 and was used on May 4th, 1914.

Context

Grand Trunk Railway branded first class passenger ticket. The Grand Trunk Railway was founded in 1852 with the goal of building a railway line between Montreal and Toronto. The railway operated in Canada and the US in the provinces/states of: Ontario, Quebec, Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. It also included three subsidiary lines: Grand Trunk Western, Central Vermont, and Grand Trunk Pacific. The company was later purchased by Canadian National in 1923

Collection

Grand Trunk, Canadian National

Cataloged By

Matthew Gill

Category

Primary Source

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Ticket, Transportation

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Ticket

Nomenclature Class

Exchange Media

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Details

Creator

Grand Trunk Railway

Date(s) of Creation

1852

Primary Language

English

Archive Items Details

Title

First Class Passenger Ticket

Description

Passenger train ticket for a first class trip from Watford Ontario to Grimsby Ontario

Creator

Grand Trunk Railway

Date(s) of Creation

1914

Subjects

Tickets, Passenger cars, Railroad trains

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Municipality

Watford, Ontario

State/Province

Ontario

Country

Canada

Continent

North America

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Item Number (Assigned from FileMaker)

Other Number

24891

Dimensions

Width

3-1/2 in

Length

2-1/2 in

Location

Location

Box

Canadian National Box #1

Room

Dale Wilson Reference Library

Building

NORMHC Heritage Centre, Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Centre

* Untyped Location

Capreol, Ontario

Date

December 17, 2021

Condition

Reason for Exam

At Acquisition

Overall Condition

Good

Condition Detail

Fading, Fold, Tear, Missing Areas / Holes

Date Examined

Dec 17, 2021

Examined By

Kat Bezaire

Materials

paper, ink

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Grand Trunk History

General Notes

Note Type

Cataloging Note

Note

Originally cataloged on June 4th, 2015 by Matthew Gill, re-cataloged by Kat Bezaire on December 17th, 2021

Created By

normhclibrary@gmail.com

Create Date

December 17, 2021

Updated By

normhclibrary@gmail.com

Update Date

March 1, 2022