The Canada Coach Lines were an important part of the transit history of the greater Hamilton area from the end of the radial era in the early 1930s until the early 1990s. Originally a privately owned bus company connecting Hamilton to Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Port Dover and Niagara Falls, the CCL bought the HSR from Ontario Hydro in 1946. Oddly enough, shortly after the purchase of the HSR the management of the CCL decided to rearrange the corporate structure, making the HSR the parent company, and the CCL the subsidiary. This structure continued after the City of Hamilton became the owner of the HSR in 1960. The CCL served as a municipally owned intercity bus line until it was sold to Trentway-Wagar in 1993.
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Other Hamilton-area Intercity Bus lines
Canada Coach Lines Bus Schedules
School Buses (CCL #1-2, 11-17, 21, 27-28, 31, 35-43, 101-102)
GMC TGH-3102 (CCL #80, 91-93
CC&F C-36 (CCL #90, 181-184, 192, 195-197, 210, 1151-1169 (odd))
Van Hool 625 (CCL #111)
MCI 102-C3 (CCL #128, 142, 2301)
CC&F CD-36A (CCL #214-218)
White 613 (CCL #417)
CC&F CD-44A (CCL #481-488)
Twin 41-S (CCL #491-492, 821-825 (odd))
White ? (CCL #603, 607)
GMDD TDH-4519 (CCL #621-626, 627:2, 628, 629:2)
Ford 19B (CCL #627, 651-669 (odd), 683, 685)
Ford 29B (CCL #629-635 (odd), 647, 649)
Ford 49B (CCL #639, 641, 687)
Ford 59B (CCL #643, 645, 679, 681)
Ford 09B (CCL #671)
Ford 99T (CCL #677)
White 706M (CCL #701-789 (odd))
White WA120 (CCL #791, 793)
Mack CQ (CCL #797)
White 782 (CCL #801-813 (odd))
GMC TGH-3207 (CCL #827)
Twin 38-S (CCL #831-837 (odd))
White 798 (CCL #901-949 (odd))
MCI MC-8 (CCL #1000, 1100, 1200)
CC&F IC-41 (CCL #1101-1119 (odd))
Aerocoach P-371 (CCL #1121, 1123)
Flxible 29BR-46 (CCL #1201, 1203)
Flxible 29BI-47 (CCL #1205-1237 (odd), 1285-1289 (odd))
Flxible 37BI-48 (CCL #1239-1253 (odd))
Flxible 33BI-49 (CCL #1255-1277 (odd))
Flxible 29BR-41 (CCL #1279, 1421, 1423)
Flxible 29BR-45 (CCL #1281, 1283, 1431-1453 (odd))
Flxible 33BR-40 (CCL #1401-1419 (odd))
Ford (CCL #1401, 1403)
Flxible 29BR-44 (CCL #1425, 1429)
Flxible 29BR-46 (CCL #1455-1459 (odd))
CC&F ICWD-29 (CCL #1501-1539 (odd))
CC&F CD-44A (CCL #1601-1615 (odd), 1631-1641, 1651-1653, 1661, 1665-1669)
GMC TDH-4512 (CCL #1671-1681, 1691-1698)
GMC TDM-4515 (CCL #1701-1725 (odd), 1751-1757 (odd), 1761, 1765-1767 (odd))
GMC PD-4104 (CCL #1801, 1803, 1821-1829 (odd))
GMC SDM-4501 (CCL #1901-1911 (odd), 1931-1935 (odd))
GMDD SDM-4502 (CCL #1941-1947 (odd), 1951-1963 (odd), 1971-1989 (odd), 1991-1997)
MCI MCC-5A (CCL #2101, 2103)
Western Flyer Canuck 600A (CCL #2121)
GMC S8M-5304A (CCL #2125-2126)
MCI MC-5B (CCL #2131-2139, 2141-2145, 2151-2156)
MCI MC-9 (CCL #2160-2169)
Prevost LeMirage (CCL #2171-2175)
MCI 96-A3 (CCL #2181-2183)
MCI 102-AW3 (CCL #2191-2196)
MCI TC40-102A (CCL #2201-2209)
MCI 102-C3 (CCL #2301)
