Sketch for the proposed Bonaventure Train Station (Montreal), scale indeterminable, Frost and Granger, architects, ca. 1905

The first Bonaventure Train Station in Montreal was built in 1847 as the terminal for the Montreal and Lachine Railway. The Grand Trunk Railway, founded in 1851, was eager to secure a downtown location for a terminal, so in 1864, it leased and later purchased Bonaventure Station.

In 1900, the Grand Trunk Railway considered rebuilding its terminal and called for proposals from Chicago architects Charles S. Frost and Albert Hoyt Granger. In the end, the station was never built.

The florid decoration and an eclectic mix of motifs drawn from historical and contemporary sources are characteristic of what has been described as 'Edwardian Free-style'.

This plan was donated to the National Archives by the Toronto Public Library in 1973.

(NMC-18486)