1888 – Bonaventure Station, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Built in 1886–1888, replacing an earlier station and constructed to the plans of architect Thomas Seaton Scott in the Second Empire style. Intended as the terminus of the Grand Trunk Railway Company. In 1900, the Grand Trunk Railway considered building a replacement for Bonaventure Station as a reaction to the massive expansion of the nearby Windsor Station of Canadian Pacific. A design for a new station was commissioned from Chicago architects Charles S. Frost and Albert Hoyt Granger.

Badly damaged by a fire in 1916, after which it was given a flat roof due to the Grand Trunk Railways finances. Eventually the GTR and Canadian Northern Railway were merged into a new company called Canadian National, CN today.

An explosion and massive fire destroyed most of the Bonaventure Station’s freight yards and marooned the station from the network in 1948. Passenger service was then moved to CN’s Central Station. Bonaventure Station was demolished in November 1952.

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