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Antoine Labelle was at the same time parish priest of Saint-Jérôme and deputy minister of colonisation, at the end of the 19th Century. His greatest contribution to the development of the Laurentians was the construction of a railway, first to Saint-Jérôme, and then to Sainte-Agathe and Mont-Laurier.

Very little remains today of that era, apart from a few stations that have survived the assaults of time, either on the "Petit train du Nord" line (the Canadian Pacific from Montréal to Mont-Laurier), or on one of the other lines.

 
The monument to «Curé Labelle» in Saint-Jérôme (photo by Christian Lauzon, 2002)
© Le Québec en images, CCDMD



The tracks and stations of Argenteuil, Deux-Montagnes and Terrebonne counties around 1910.


The Canadian Pacific lines in 1920.

Argenteuil


The schedule for the Montréal-Ottawa line (Canadian Pacific) in 1920. It went
through the county of Deux-Montagnes and the South of Argenteuil.



The schedule for the Montréal-Huberdeau line (Canadian National) in 1962.
This line also served the skiers going to Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts.


Deux-Montagnes

Pointe-Calumet


The Pointe-Calumet station (Canadian National), around 1950 (postcard by Roland Beauchamp).


Saint-Eustache


The Saint-Eustache station (Canadian Pacific), around 1915 (anonymous postcard).


The schedule for the Montréal-Saint-Eustache line (Canadian Pacific) in 1920.


The Fresnière station in Saint-Eustache (Canadian National), around 1925 (anonymous postcard).


Saint-Eustache-sur-le-Lac station, now Grand-Moulin (Canadian National),
around 1950 (postcard by Roland Beauchamp).


Sainte-Scholastique


The Sainte-Scholastique station, around 1925 (anonymous postcard).


Labelle

Mont-Laurier


The schedule for the Montréal-Mont-Laurier line (Canadian Pacific) in 1920.


Terrebonne

Saint-Jérôme


The Saint-Jérôme station (Canadian Pacific), around 1905 (postcard by P.-F. Pinsonneault).


Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts


The schedule for the Montréal-Huberdeau line (Canadian National) in 1962.
This line also served the skiers going to Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts.


Shawbridge


The schedule for the Montréal-Shawbridge extras (Canadian Pacific) in 1920.