Summerhill-North Toronto CPR Station

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Summerhill CPR Station has been preserved although it is no longer served by passenger trains.

North Toronto or Summerhill CPR Station was built in 1916 by Darling and Pearson for the Canadian Pacific Railway line running across Toronto. It is on the east side of Yonge Street in the 1100 block, just south of the more recent Summerhill TTC station.

The station consist of a 43-metre (140-foot) clock tower and a three-storey main terminal. It was modelled after on Campanile di San Marco in Saint Mark’s Square in Venice.

The station closed in the 1920s, and became an LCBO store after World War II. Much of the station’s interior was covered up by the liquor store, but was recently restored by the LCBO. Today trains still pass the station, though station itself is now the Summerhill LCBO store, with a coffee shop on the west side along Yonge Street and a piazza with a water fountain to the south end.

GO Transit’s Midtown line, proposed as recently as 2000 but not a current priority, would see North Toronto Station re-opened along with several other stations along the CPR line and used by commuter trains bypassing Toronto’s downtown Union Station.