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This post offers supplementary material for a recent Ghost City column written for The Grid , which you should read first before diving into this post. Source: The Globe , September 10, 1915. Besides Mayor Tommy Church, at least two other people spoke during the September 9, 1915 cornerstone ceremony for the Canadian Pacific Railway's new North Toronto station. CPR general manager A.D. MacTier thanked everyone for their assistance in initializing the project: “I hope that through this gathering I may be able to get to know your city officials, businessmen and the public generally, believing as I do that only by much personal friendship and knowledge of each other’s aims and needs can that mutual understanding and respect be created, without which the proper amicable relations between a large public utility and the people of a great city can neither be created nor maintained.” Also speaking was jurist William Mulock, who referred to the ongoing conflict in Europe. Accord...