Royal Train 1890
Royal visit Duke and Duchess of Connaught.
Later, Governor General of Canada 1911-1916.
The Duke of Connaught, His Royal Highness Prince Arthur William Patrick
Albert was returning from India to England.
As guests of George Stephen and Donald Smith the Royal train running
as a special consisted of only three cars:
a CPR baggage car and two CPR business cars the ‘Metapedia’
and the ‘Saskatchewan’.
The Royal couple travelled Vancouver to North Bay via the CPR, then
over the GTR into Toronto.
His wife wanted to see an American city so they travelled from Toronto
to Niagara Falls
where they then traveled by carriage to the NYC depot where they boarded
a day coach on a
regular train to travel to Buffalo and return. They then traveled to
Toronto and Montreal via Ottawa
before sailing for the old country.
Research; Doug Phillips.
4-4-0 375 with tender stacked high with cordwood sits ready to depart
Vancouver wharf May 23, 1890.
Steamship Abyssinia
chartered for this voyage arrived the day before likewise suitably decorated.
Doug Phillips Collection/Digital restoration Walter Pfefferle
Sister engine 374 is preserved at Vancouver
in part of historic Drake Street roundhouse.
Vancouver Sun World, Friday, May 23, 1890
Collection of Andrew Jeanes
2-8-0 406 all decorated up to haul the
train over Rogers Pass, Revelstoke to Donald, BC.
The train had laid over-night at Sicamous, before continuing on to Revelstoke
in order for the Royal couple to see the mountains in daylight.
Walter Pfefferle Collection
