This page is a collection of the odds & ends of the Canada Coach Lines buses that are in my photo collection.
Some of the dates for these photos are unknown, and the locations are often just a guess. If you know either date or location, email me!
A drawing of an early CCL bus graces the cover of this CCL Bus Schedule, dated May 2, 1937.
An unidentified CCL bus at Brantford City Hall, possibly built by ACF, date unknown. From an unused postcard.
A CCL Ford Transit bus passes the Hamilton farmer's market on York St. This photo was used in the 1953 City of Hamilton Official Christmas card, so that's the 'latest possible year'. And if those are apples in the baskets in the lower left then we're looking at early fall.
A CCL trailer bus at the Rebecca St yard in Hamilton in 1943.
A CCL trailer bus at the Rebecca St yard in Hamilton in 1943.
CCL #82 in Niagara Falls in 1943. Nothing is known about this bus other than it was made by White.
CCL #88 in Dundas in 1947. Nothing is known about this bus other than it was made by White.
CCL #218 at Sanford Yard, date unknown. This is a Canadian Car & Foundry C-36A, originally built in 1950 for the HSR.
CCL #603 on Chestnut St in Dunnville in the 1930s. This bus was built by the White Motor Company, but other than that very little is known about this bus. (Photo courtesy of the Port Maitland, “On the Grand” Historical Association, used with permission)
Three CCL buses in the Hamilton garage in 1944. Left to right is an unknown CCL White 706M, an ACF built bus (possibly CCL #728), and CCL #607 (Photo courtesy of the Hamilton Public Library, Local History & Archives, used with permission)
CCL #941 on school bus duty in front of Ancaster Memorial School on Wilson St on Feb 3, 1951. This is a White 798, built in 1945. (Photo courtesy of the Hamilton Public Library, Local History & Archives, used with permission)
CCL #1403 at the Niagara Falls Bus Terminal at Bridge St & Erie Ave, May 22, 1990. Very little is known about this bus, other than it is Ford-built. (Photo by Gord Lilley, used with permission)
Several buses trying to cross the Humber River bridge on Lakeshore Rd in Toronto in October 1954. From top to bottom are a TTC CC&F C36 bus (#1103?), a former Roseland Bus Lines White 706M bus, a TTC Ford transit bus still in the colours of its previous owner Roseland Bus Lines, and CCL #1431, a Flxible 29BR-45. The former Roseland Bus Lines White 706M bus looks like it's in CCL colours, and it may be. Roseland Bus Lines, which had been bought out by the TTC a few months before, owned a single White 706M bus. It had been purchased from a Catholic convert in Hamilton in 1950, and was in a unique paint scheme that was very similar to the CCL's. It is possible that the bus was a former CCL bus that was never repainted by either of its subsequent owners. The TTC never used this bus and set it aside to be scrapped, but it looks like the TTC pulled it off the scrap line for emergency service. (Photo courtesy of the York University Libraries, Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections, Toronto Telegram fonds, ASC05573)
