The Newmarket Railway Station
The Newmarket Chamber of Commerce offices are housed in the old Railway Station on Davis Drive just east of Main Street.
Designated a heritage site in 1987, this picturesque Queen Anne Revival building became the new home of the Chamber of Commerce in 1997.
The first railroad station on this site opened in 1853, when the Ontario, Huron and Simcoe railroad reached Newmarket. The railway station was the key to Newmarket’s success. The railroad was the link to Toronto and Lake Ontario for business and industry, so mills and factories were built in areas serviced by the railway. Businesses moved here, the community prospered, and the population grew.
Newmarket was firmly established as the centre of commerce, and the most important village north of Toronto.
The existing structure is the third on the site, and was built in 1899 by the Grand Trunk Railroad. It was restored in 1910, and abandoned in 1978. It was fitting that the Chamber of Commerce, the voice of business in Newmarket, would take over the derelict century old station and restore it to its former prominence as the heart of Newmarket’s business community.
