Rapid transit in Canada

Rapid transit was first introduced in Canada with the opening of the Toronto subway in 1954, built by the Toronto Transportation Commission (now the Toronto Transit Commission, or the TTC).^[1] Montreal later introduced the Montreal Metro in 1966, though there were plans to build a rapid transit system since 1902.^[2] The Edmonton Light Rail Transit system was built from 1974 to 1978 for the 1978 Commonwealth Games. It made Edmonton the first city in North America with less than one million people to have a rapid transit system. Proposal systems have been posted in the city of Winnipeg from downtown to the university. The Vancouver SkyTrain was opened in January 1986 for the Expo 86 world fair.^[3]

There are six urban rapid transit systems operating in Canada: The Toronto Subway, the Montreal Metro, the Vancouver SkyTrain, The C-Train in Calgary, the Edmonton Light Rail Transit and the O-Train in Ottawa.

**Rapid transit in Canada**
Location	Transit	Daily Ridership	System Length
Toronto, Ontario	Toronto Subway/RT	1,211,300	68.3km
Montreal, Quebec	metro or métro	835,000+	65.33km
Calgary, Alberta	C-Train	271,100	44.8km
Vancouver, British Columbia	SkyTrain	220,000	49.5km
Edmonton, Alberta	Edmonton Light Rail Transit	42,000	12.9km
Ottawa, Ontario	O-Train	10,000	8km

[edit] See also

v • d • e Passenger railways of Canada

Metro systems	Montreal Metro • Toronto subway/RT • Vancouver SkyTrain

Light rail	C-Train (Calgary) • Edmonton Light Rail • O-Train (Ottawa) • Toronto streetcars • Toronto Pearson Airport People Mover

Long distance	VIA Rail • Ontario Northland Railway • Canadian National Railway • Canadian Pacific Railway • Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway • Rocky Mountaineer • Tshiuetin Rail Transportation • White Pass and Yukon Route • NLCL • Keewatin Railway Company • Amtrak Cascades

Commuter rail	GO Transit (Toronto) • Agence métropolitaine de transport (Montreal) • West Coast Express (Vancouver)

See also:	Canadian railways

v • d • e Rapid transit in North America

Sovereign states	Antigua and Barbuda · Bahamas · Barbados · Belize · Canada · Costa Rica · Cuba · Dominica · Dominican Republic · El Salvador · Grenada · Guatemala · Haiti · Honduras · Jamaica · Mexico · Nicaragua · Panama¹ · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · St. Vincent and the Grenadines · Trinidad and Tobago¹ · United States

Dependencies and other territories	American Samoa² · Anguilla · Aruba¹ · Bermuda · British Virgin Islands · Cayman Islands · Greenland · Guadeloupe · Guam² · Martinique · Montserrat · Navassa Island · Netherlands Antilles · Northern Mariana Islands² · Puerto Rico · St. Barthélemy · St. Martin · St. Pierre and Miquelon · Turks and Caicos Islands · United States Virgin Islands

¹ Territories also in or commonly reckoned elsewhere in the Americas (South America). ² Territories also in or commonly reckoned to be in the Pacific basin.