General

Station Name: Orillia Institute, a.k.a. Orillia Asylum[GTRS 1902], Huronia Regional Centre
Subdivision: Newmarket
Mileage: 84.24
Station Symbols: ...
Other Tracks: N.11 (mileage 84.46)3
Location: (Simcoe County, Orillia Township)

Footnotes

Flag stop for trains 41, 42, 44 & 45.

Chronology

Date Event
1887-11 Orillia "Asylum For Idiots" opens.
1902-07-15 Appears as Orillia Asylum Platform, 84.94 miles from Toronto[GTRS 1902, pp. 32-33].
1908-06-21/1909-06-27 Appears as "Orillia Asylum Platform, south of Orillia"[GTRS.ND.10].
1908-06-21/1909-06-27 Appears as "Orillia Asylum Platform, about one and one-half miles south of Orillia"[GTRS.ND.23/26].
1914-09-20/1925-09-27 Appears as Orillia Institute, about one and one-half miles south of Orillia; other tracks not given[GTRS.OL.BSD.5/30; GTRS-OL-BD.4; CNR.CR.SWOD.AD.9].
1920 Renamed "Ontario Hospital".
1926-09-26/1927-09-25 Appears as Orillia Asylum, Mileage 84.8, N.13[CNR.CR.NOD.18/22].
1928-05-20/1929-06-30 Appears as Orillia Asylum, Mileage 84.2, N.13[CNR.CR.NOD.23/28].
1929-07-28/1935-02-24 Appears as Orillia Asylum, Mileage 84.5, N.13[CNR.CR.NOD.29/50].
1935-06-23/1939-07-02 Appears as Orillia Institute, Mileage 84.3, N.13[CNR.CR.NOD.51/66].
1939-09-24/1942-09-27 Appears as Orillia Institute, Mileage 84.3, N.12[CNR.CR.NOD.67/75].
1943-06-27/1952-09-28 Appears as Orillia Institute, Mileage 84.5, N.12[CNR.CR.NOD.76/04].
1953-04-26/1958-06-22 Appears as Orillia Institute, Mileage 84.5, N.11[CNR.CR.NOD.05/21].
1958-12-07/1961-10-29 Appears as Orillia Institute, Mileage 84.5, N.4[CNR.CR.NOD.22/28; CNR.GLR.NOA.29/32].
1964-10-25 Appears in PTT[CNR.A.196, Table 60].
1965-04-25 Absent from ETT[CNR.GLR.NOA.41] and PTT[CNR.A.197, Table 60].

Photographs

Date Image Notes
1915c Click to Enlarge
JPS collection		 Postcard view of Orillia Asylum from Lake Simcoe. Montréal Import Co., Montréal PQ. No. 3023. Postally unused.

Drawings

Date Reference Railway Subject Description

End Notes

  1. 1,452 sq. ft. platform[GTR.ND.1907, p. 158].
  2. 10'×25' shelter[CNR Property Plan].
  3. Other Tracks history:
    Date Other Tracks
    1929-09-29/1939-07-02 N.13
    1939-09-24/1952-09-28 N.12
    1953-04-26/1958-06-22 N.11
    1958-12-07/1961-11-29 N.4
    1965-04-25 ...