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As a young man, Emery Titus Erb (1850-1929) worked as a railroad engineer on trains that passed through this station.
The frame building was built in 1876 by the Port Dover and Lake Huron Railway. The South Norwich Historical Society has restored it to its state as an 1881 Grand Trunk Railway Station and it now serves as a museum. The station was was part of a 108-mile section of track that connected the Lake Erie community of Port Dover with the Southern Ontario community of Stratford, passing through Simcoe, Otterville, and Woodstock. By 1881 this line, along with several others, was amalgamated into the Grand Trunk, Georgian Bay and Lake Erie Railway. And the Grand Trunk line itself later became a part of the Canadian National Railway. The Port Dover and Lake Huron section of track is now abandoned, but there were still trains going through Otterville up to 1963. |
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Go here [an offsite link] to read more about the history of the Port Dover & Lake Huron Railway. Go here [an off-sitre link] for a web page devoted to historic Otterville. Go here to see a picture of Emery Titus Erb. |
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