From the National Archives, this 1952 photograph of the Canadian National Station at Joliette, Quebec, originally built by the Great Northern Railway of Canada,  is rich in detail.  Note the Great Northern Hotel at left (now the Hôtel Grand Nord).

When the Great Northern station at Joliette was constructed, it was written that...

The station at Joliette is a much finer building than the others, built of pressed brick on a stone foundation, with a separate freight shed of wood.  Five tanks were erected on the 88  miles of new line, 40,000 gallons capacity each, with ste[?] pumps under the tanks, except in the case of the one at Joliette, which is supplied from the town waterworks.  The foundation at Joliette was of rubble masonry with cut ston ca[?] but the others were of concrete, which proved to be cheaper and just as good.

- Railway and Shipping World, April 1902, p. 118.

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2001/12/15