List of street railways in Canada

This is a list of street railways in Canada by province. Prince Edward Island, Northwest Territories and Nunavut are the only places in Canada to not have had any tram (streetcar) system. The list includes all streetcar systems, past and present.

Alberta[]

Location	Name of System	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Calgary	Calgary Municipal Railway	Electric	5 Jul 1909	29 Dec 1950
Calgary	Heritage Park Historical Village	Electric	1975		Museum with operational heritage streetcar lines. Operates only during summer season. Streetcars was taken out of service in 2006 in preparation for the park's expansion, and returned to service in May 2010, taking passengers from the parking lot to the newly built CPR replica station and front gate.^[1]^{[circular reference]}
Edmonton	Edmonton Radial Railway	Electric	30 Oct 1908	1 Sep 1951
		Petrol (gasoline)	30 Sep 1913	1 Apr 1914	Connected Edmonton and St. Albert. Closed because of depot (carbarn) fire.
	High Level Bridge Streetcar	Electric	14 Jun 1997		Operates only during summer season.[4]
Lake Louise		Petrol (gasoline)	1912	1930	Operated only during summer season (May-Sep).
Lethbridge		Electric	Sep 1912	8 Sep 1947

British Columbia[]

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Nelson Street Railway	Nelson	Electric	27 Dec 1899 8 Nov 1910	27 April 1908 20 Jun 1949	Closed 1908 because of depot (carbarn) fire. Operation suspended 21 Dec 1910 - 21 Jun 1911. Ranked as the smallest town in the British Empire with a town tramway system. Heritage tramway opened 15 Jun 1992; see Nelson Electric Tramway.
British Columbia Electric Railway Company	Vancouver	Electric	28 Jun 1890	21 Apr 1955	Heritage tramway opened 29 Jul 1998; operated May – October; service suspended indefinitely in fall 2011 – see Vancouver Downtown Historic Railway.^[2]
	? New Westminster	Electric	7 Oct 1891	4 Dec 1938
	? North Vancouver	Electric	1 Sep 1906	23 Apr 1947
	Victoria	Electric	22 Feb 1890	3 Jul 1948

Manitoba[]

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Brandon	Electric	2 Jun 1913	30 Apr 1932	Operation suspended 15 Aug 1931 - 1 Oct 1931.
Winnipeg Electric Company	Winnipeg	Horse	20 Oct 1882	Jun 1894
Winnipeg Electric Company	Winnipeg	Electric	27 Jan 1891	18 Sep 1955

New Brunswick[]

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Moncton Electric Street Railway, Heat and Power Company, Moncton Tramways, Electricity and Gas Company, Ltd.	Moncton	Electric	11 Aug 1896 30 Nov 1911	11 Dec 1897 31 Dec 1931
Saint John Railway Co., New Brunswick Power Company	Saint John	Horse	24 Aug 1869 17 Oct 1887	1876 May 1893
Saint John Railway Co., New Brunswick Power Company	Saint John	Electric	12 Apr 1893	7 Aug 1948
Calais Street Railway Company	St. Stephen				International tramway, see Calais, Maine, US.

Newfoundland and Labrador[]

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
St. John's Street Railway Company	St. John's	Electric	1 May 1900	15 Sep 1948

Nova Scotia[]

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)
Nova Scotia Light and Power Company, Limited	Halifax	Horse	11 Jun 1866 21 Oct 1886	17 May 1876 31 May 1896
Nova Scotia Light and Power Company, Limited	Halifax	Electric	12 Feb 1896	29 Apr 1949
Pictou County Electric Company	New Glasgow - Trenton	Electric	10 Oct 1904	7 May 1931
Cape Breton Electric Company	Sydney	Electric	1901	Oct 1931
Cape Breton Electric Company	? North Sydney	Electric	1903	1929
Cape Breton Tramways Company, Ltd.	? Glace Bay	Electric	7 Jan 1908	1938
Cape Breton Tramways Company, Ltd.	? Sydney - Glace Bay	Electric	Oct 1902	15 May 1947
Yarmouth Light and Power Company	Yarmouth	Electric	26 Aug 1892	20 Oct 1928

Ontario[]

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Belleville	Horse	1876-05-23	1891-11-26	Closed because of depot (carbarn) fire. (One source states that horse tramway operation continued to electrification in 1895.)
	Belleville	Electric	1895-08-03	1901-09-12
Brantford Municipal Railway	Brantford	Horse	1886-09-04	1893
Brantford Municipal Railway	Brantford	Electric	1893-03-31 1933-01-09	1932-09-30 1940-01-31
	Chatham	Horse	1885 1891-06	1890-03-29 1895 (?)	^[3]
Cornwall Street Railway, Light and Power Company, Ltd^[4]	Cornwall	Electric	1896-07-07	1949-07-27	Used for freight under catenary until 9 October 1971^[4]
	Guelph	Electric	1895-09-17	1937-09-30	^[5]
Hamilton Street Railway	Hamilton	Horse	1874-05-15	1893
Hamilton Street Railway	Hamilton	Electric	1892-07-02	1951-04-06
	Kingston	Electric	1893-09-26	1930-03-04	Closed because of tramcar depot (carbarn) fire.
Berlin and Waterloo Street Railway	Kitchener and Waterloo	Horse	1889-06-13	1895	Converted to electric
Berlin and Waterloo Street Railway	Kitchener and Waterloo	Electric	1895-05-18	1923	Ownership transfer to Kitchener PUC
1902-1912;	Kitchener and Waterloo	Electric	1902	1923	Renamed Berlin & Northern Railway Company 1912, Waterloo Wellington Railway Company 1919; ownership transfer to Kitchener PUC 1923
	Kitchener and Waterloo	Electric	1923	1946-12-27	Converted to bus, trolleybus
Ion rapid transit	Kitchener and Waterloo	Electric	2019-06-21
	London	Horse	1875-05-24	1896-05
	London	Electric	1895-09-12	1940-11-27
	Niagara Falls	Horse	1886-12-06	1900
	Niagara Falls	Electric	1900-08-15	1947-11-26
	Oshawa	Electric	1895-06-13	1940-01-28
Ottawa Electric Railway Company	Ottawa	Horse	1870-07-21	1891
Ottawa Electric Railway Company	Ottawa	Electric	1891-06-29	1959-04-30	Diesel light rail transit (DLRT), opened 15 Oct 2001.
Peterborough Radial Railway Company	Peterborough	Electric	1893-08 1902	1898 1927-03-31
	St. Catharines	Horse	1879-11-01	1887
	St. Catharines	Electric	1887-09	1948-05-07
St. Thomas Municipal Railway	St. Thomas	Horse	1879	1898
St. Thomas Municipal Railway	St. Thomas	Electric	1898-06-16	1926-02-12
Sarnia Street Railway Company	Sarnia	Horse	1875	1901
Sarnia Street Railway Company	Sarnia	Electric	1901-01	1931-02-25
	Sault Ste. Marie	Electric	1903-03-30	1941-11-01
Temiskaming Streetcar Line	Temiskaming Shores	Electric	1910-04-30	1935-02-09
Sudbury and Copper Cliff Suburban Electric Railway Company	Greater Sudbury	Electric	1915-11-11	1950-10-01
	Thunder Bay				Tramways in Fort William and Port Arthur closed prior to amalgamation.
Fort William Street Railway	? Fort William	Electric	1892-03-02	1948-02-15	First electric streetcar system in Canada
Port Arthur Civic Railway	? Port Arthur	Electric	1893-06-01	1948-10-16
Toronto streetcar system	Toronto	Horse	1861-09-11	1894-08-31
Toronto streetcar system	Toronto	Electric	1892-08-16
	Waterloo				see Kitchener.
	Welland	Electric	1912-01	1930-07-04
Sandwich, Windsor and Amherstburg Railway Company	Windsor	Horse	1874-07-20 1878-05	1877 1893
		Steam	1877 1888-04	1878-05 1888
		Electric	1886-06-06 1891-08-15	1888-04 1939-05-06

Quebec[]

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Québec Asbestos Company	East Broughton	Electric (?)	ca. 1924 (?)	1942 (?)	Peschkes (Part Four, 1998, Page 25) states that, according to one source, Québec Asbestos Company operated a small town tramway network with three tramcars acquired second-hand from Sherbrooke. No other sources confirm this information.
Hull Electric Company	Gatineau	Electric	1895	6 Dec 1947	Tramway in Hull closed prior to amalgamation with neighboring towns.
Levis Tramways Company	Lévis	Electric	1903	23 Nov 1946	Operation suspended 1921 - 1922 because of depot (carbarn) fire.
Montreal Tramways Company	Montréal	Horse	27 Nov 1861	Oct 1894	Montreal City Passenger Railway became Montreal Street Railway Co in 1886
Montreal Tramways Company	Montréal	Electric	21 Sep 1892	30 Aug 1959	MSRy amalgamated with Montreal, Park and Island Railway (MSRy assumed control of that company in 1901) and Montreal Terminal Railway (MSRy assumed control of that company in 1907) to form Montreal Tramways Co in 1911. The company was purchased by the Montreal Transportation Commission in 1951.
Quebec Railway, Light and Power Company: Citadel Division	Québec	Horse	17 Aug 1865	1898
Quebec Railway, Light and Power Company: Citadel Division	Québec	Electric	20 Jul 1897	25 May 1948
Sherbrooke Railway and Power Company	Sherbrooke	Electric	1 Nov 1897	31 Dec 1931
Three Rivers Traction Company	Trois-Rivières (Three Rivers)	Electric	11 Dec 1915	12 Sep 1933

Saskatchewan[]

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)
	Moose Jaw	Electric	4 Sep 1911	8 Oct 1932
Regina Municipal Railway	Regina	Electric	28 Jul 1911	9 Sep 1950
Saskatoon Municipal Railway	Saskatoon	Electric	1 Jan 1913	10 Nov 1951

Yukon[]

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Whitehorse trolley	Whitehorse	Diesel	2000	present	operating heritage tramway with one streetcar

References[]

^ Heritage Park Historical Village
^ "Vancouver's Downtown Historic Railway". Archived 2008-09-24 at the Wayback Machine City of Vancouver. Retrieved January 25, 2011.
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