Bonarlaw a busy place.
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Bonarlaw's first name was Central Ontario Junction. The railway was first acquired by the Canadian Northern Railway, and subsequently merged into the Canadian National system, when, in 1917, the name changed to Bonarlaw, named for British Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law. (Born in New Brunswick, he is the only British Prime Minister to have been born outside the British Isles.) The community has also been known as Big Springs and Bellview. The station was a junction point for the C.P.R. and the previously mentioned railways. Before automobiles, the station was very busy with a daily train to and from Toronto, as well as an afternoon and night train over the C.P.R. tracks.
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On March 26, 2021, Molly wrote:
I currently live in the old Station Master’s home in Bonarlaw and I love finding information like this about how Bonarlaw used to be. You would never know nowadays passing through.
Brenda Mason Sept. 28, 2024 My mother grew up on the 14th Rawdon and tells of her grandmother’s insulin coming by train and being dropped off at Bonarlaw Station. She called herself “one of Dr. Banting’s Guinea pigs.” My mom would also walk back from school at lunch hour and return in order to administer her Grand-mother’s needle.
