Davenport Station Photograph coloured with watercolour of a line drawing published in The Canadian Illustrated News, 25 July 1863. 11.5 x 17.8 cm. TPL (TRL) JRR 862 In 1853, a few miles outside of Toronto a small shed was built as a passenger station for the Ontario, Simcoe & Huron (later Northern) Railway, Toronto's first railway. The land for the station was donated by George Cooper, who realized that access to nearby "rapid transit" might increase his own property's value. This Davenport Station, built in 1857, was located north of Davenport Road on Caledonia Park Road.