Dalhousie Station (Canadian Pacific Railway)

The first all-Canadian transcontinental train left Dalhousie Station bound for Port Moody, British Columbia, on June 28, 1886, at 8:00 p.m. Five years after its opening, Canadian Pacific opened a second Montreal terminal, Windsor Station, in February 1889. It had better access to rail routes to the United States, southern Quebec, and southern Ontario, and a more convenient location on the west side of town. After a new, shorter line to Ottawa via Rigaud opened in February 1898, the transcontinental route was redirected to Windsor Station. Dalhousie Station was superseded by the grander Place Viger Station, a block to the north of Dalhousie Station, in August 1898. ==Design and redevelopment==

Like other early CPR stations, Dalhousie Station was designed by British-born architect Thomas Charles Sorby. Dalhousie Station is architecturally notable for its combination of stone and brick and its high windows. The station is now part of a remodeled Dalhousie Square, completed in 2004, which links Old Montreal and the Faubourg Quebec residential district. Dalhousie Square was designed by Robert Desjardins of the City of Montreal and includes a sculpture by Jocelyne Alloucherie entitled Porte de jour. The redesigned square received honour from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects in 2006. ==References==