Quebec City and Montreal. They are at Saint- Lambert, Saint-Hyacinthe, and Drummondville. The Drummondville station was built by the GTR in 1904, and is a simple, elongated brick structure with a row of Richardsonian-style windows and doors. Although train service is frequent, VIA has removed the ticket agent, and the waiting room has become a confining, bleak hall.
Saint-Hyacinthe
Built by the GTR in 1899, this station is another example of the remarkable styles that this rail line came up with. The station has so many different elements that it is hard to categorize them. The roof is a good place to start, as it offers a high-hip cross gable with a bellcast slope extending to the street side and the two-storey operators bay. An arched portico marks the entrance to the building, while a pair of hip-gable dormers lie on either side. This brick on stone structure extends to two storeys in the centre, and a storey and a half along the extensions. While VIA Rail makes frequent daily stops, the waiting room now lacks an agent and has been reduced to a dull, featureless waiting area. In the meantime, the Mega Copie Restaurant has taken over the old waiting room, which has retained a good number of it architectural features.
Rivière-Bleue
Built in 1913 by the NTR, this nicely preserved small-town station reflects the common country station pattern of the NTR: storey-and-a-half, with steep hip roof and hip dormers in the end gable as well as atop the agent’s bay window. The upper floor housed the agent’s apartment. While the last passenger trains stopped coming to Rivière-Bleue in 1979, the tracks remain in use for freight service. In 1981 Le Club d’Artisanat Riverain Inc. saved the building from demolition, and for a number of years it housed a private museum. Today, it houses a museum, café, and gift shop, and is listed on the Quebec registry of heritage properties.
Stations of Quebec’s South Shore
Montmagny
The ICR was built as a major trunk line to link Canada’s eastern provinces. The striking mansard-roofed station in Montmagny was built by that railway in 1881, one of six such structures built between Levis and Rivière-du-Loup after the ICR took over the GTR in 1873. The station in Montmagny is the sole survivor. After several decades as a CNR station, it was taken over by VIA Rail for its Atlantic routes. Cutbacks by the federal Conservatives forced the railway to remove its agent in the early 2000s.
Saint-Pascal
Although the route later became part of the ICR, several stations along the section of line from Levis to Rivière-du-Loup were of Grand Trunk design. The station at Saint-Pascal was one, and displays a distinctive Quebecois flavour with a broad, sweeping bellcast roof that resembles many Habitant homes built at the time. The original station was built in 1856, and, according to Parks Canada, was either replicated or heavily renovated in 1913. No longer a VIA Rail stop, the building, fenced from the track, now houses community service groups.
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