Tags: Public Transit System.
After the Williams Omnibus Bus Line had become heavily loaded in 1861 the city of Toronto issued a transit franchise (Resolution 14 By-law 353) for a horse-drawn street railway. The winner was Alexander Easton’s Toronto Street Railway which opened the first street railway line in Canada on September 11 1861 operating from Yorkville Town Hall to the St. Lawrence Market. The second line was on Queen Street. On other routes the TSR continued to operate omnibuses.
