1881--Nicholas Weatherston managed the Grand Junction Railway at Belleville in this year. A graduate of the “Great Western”, he was long with the Intercolonial Ry. at Toronto, and his father commenced work in 1835 on the Normanton & Leeds Railway built by the famous George Stephenson. 1883--Regime of the late (Sir) William White and John W. Loud, at the period of the G.T.R.--G.W.R. merger, Toronto, when George Pepall, Asst. Foreign Freight Agent, G.T.R. to-day, was Inwards Freight Clerk and D. de Cooper, now C.F.A., L.V.R., was employed on the “Outwards” desk. 1891, Dec. 7--St. Clair Tunnel, Sarnia, Ont., to Port Huron, Mich., opened to travel. It was begun in 1888, cost $2,500,000 and was electrified in 1906. Entries in diary of E. de la Hooke, London, Canada--City Ticket Agent, Grand Trunk Railway. Callers who registered at his office:-- 1892, Jan. 6--Snowing heavily-- J. J. McCarthy, West Shore Edson Weeks, P. & R. J. A. Richardson, Wabash J. H. Morley, C. & N.W.R. H. D. Armstrong, M.P.R. 1892, Jan. 20--Bright, 30 degrees below zero; lunched at Tecumseh Hotel with:-- J. N. Bastedo, Santa Fe J. M. Huckins, G.N.R. Jim Steele, C.P.R. A. J. Taylor, St. Paul Road 1892, July 18--“Grand day, but Oh my, another hot ’un”. Meeting of Grand Lodge. Callers who registered:-- Wm. Askin, Beatty Line C. W. Graves, G.T.R. W. G. McLean, C.P.R. A. Patriarche, F. & P.M. T. Ridgedale, N.P.R. P. J. Slatter, G.T.R. L. Wheeler, Clover Leaf Route. 1892--Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway Company secured charter, its nucleus being the 18 mile Brantford, Waterloo & Lake Erie Railway, their Waterford extension opened 1895 and the Buffalo-Toronto through service was inaugurated June, 1897. 1893, Jan. 18--Entries in diary of E. de la Hooke, London, Canada--“Blizzard, one listener frozen”. Visitors registered were:-- W. R. Callaway, C.P.R. M. C. Dickson, G.T.R. J. D. Hunter, Allan Line McCormick Smith, C.B. & Q.R. W. B. Murray, Erie Rd. 1893, March 23--Bright, mild, springlike:-- Howard J. Ball, D.L. & W. B. H. Bennett, C. & N.W.R. Phil. Hitchcock, D.L. & W. W. E. Rispin, G.T.R., Chatham S. J. Sharpe, Erie