A short history of Rails End Gallery and Haliburton Station

BRINGING ART TO LIFE IN HALIBURTON Welcome

Slideshow by Jessica Byers

Canada Summer Jobs Student 2020

A little bit of history

The Haliburton Station

Rails End Gallery 2020, formerly Haliburton Station

The Haliburton Station

Haliburton Station in the 1920’s. Note the model T

Ford at the platform.

The Haliburton Station

Haliburton Station from the southeast. About 1880’s

Proposed Renovation Blueprints for the Gallery

Original Blueprints of the Station

Welcome sign into the village of Haliburton. Population 1200. Note the Haliburton Station in the background.

The Vintage Platform Weigh Scale

Note the outline of a painted over sticker/badge

“Gurnets Ware”

Scales in freight shed.

Interior of freight shed

Passenger Bench

The

Interior of waiting room. *Note the missing two arm rests in the middle of the bench.

original waiting room features in 2020

The Ticket Booth

Viewpoint of the agent handing out tickets.

Interior of the original ticket booth drawer dividers.

Viewpoint of where a passenger would get their train tickets from the waiting room.

Note that all three ticket drawers have different exterior wood markings/designs.

Interior of agent’s office / ticket booth

The bay window in 2020

Exhibition Space/Freight Shed Details

Note that now the horizontal beams in the exhibition space aren’t connected to the exterior walls anymore. Shown in far right picture.

Structural failure of roof tie at post in freight shed.

Haliburton Station in the early 1900’s

C.N. 40 Historical locomotive at Haliburton station at the time of the Haliburton centennial 1864-1964

Above, Haliburton Station in the 1880’s.

Below, Weekend special at Haliburton, July 1937.

The Caboose

Far right image, Paul Sanderson. CN Caboose, Photography Tracks were unearthed in 2020

Haliburton in the early 1920’s, at the time of the Governor General’s visit when he dedicated the Cenotaph and planted a tree.

C. Eisenstadt.

Railway Crossing

9/200, Artwork

Mary Inten Wallace.

Batik Rails End, Artwork

Credits

Artwork

C. Eisenstadt. Railway Crossing 9/200, Artwork

Jessica Byers. Rail End Gallery and Caboose, Photography

Mary Wallace. Batik Rails End, Fabric Artwork

Paul Sanderson. CN Caboose, Photography

Other

Several historical images, written information and research have been located in the following books and documents:

Wagland, Keith H., et al. Haliburton Station: A Visual Arts Facility for the Haliburton Highlands Guild of Fine Arts. 1978.

Wilkins, Taylor. Haliburton by Rail and the I.B. & O. T. Wilkins, 1992.

The presentation and research was put together by Jessica Byers, Canada Summer Jobs Youth, Summer 2020