Greyhound Canada
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 Greyhound Canada #1330 at the New Yorker Hotel in New York, NY, USA on Schedule #319. |
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| Parent company | FirstGroup plc |
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| Founded | 1929 |
| Headquarters | 877 Greyhound Way SW, Calgary, Alberta |
| Service area |  Canada |
| Service type | Intercity coach service |
| Alliance | Greyhound Lines, USA Adirondack Trailways (Toronto-NYC service) |
| Destinations | 1,200+ |
| Stations | 1,100+ |
| Fleet | 480 |
| Web site | Official Website |
Greyhound Canada[1] (registered as Greyhound Canada Transportation Corp.) is a prominent operator of inter-city coach services in Canada. Based in Calgary, it is a subsidiary of Britain’s FirstGroup plc, linked with Dallas-based Greyhound Lines (also known as Greyhound USA).
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[edit] History
In 1929, Greyhound Canada was founded as Canadian Greyhound Coaches, Limited, operating in Alberta. It merged with Greyhound USA in 1935 and split after Greyhound Canada was sold in 1987. It was not until Laidlaw's purchase of the Canadian operations in 1987 and U.S. operations in 1999 did the two operations link up again. Toronto area routes and some buses were acquired from Gray Coach in 1991. In 1998, Greyhound purchased Quebec-based Voyageur Colonial Bus Lines, and, shortly afterward, bought Central Ontario's Penetang-Midland Coach Lines, thus gaining a foothold in the South-Central Ontario region.
[edit] Routes
[edit] Regular service overview
Greyhound Canada's scheduled bus service operates in eight of Canada's provinces and territories (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and Yukon).
Connections to US destinations are available, primarily through Greyhound USA, although there is direct service to New York City, Seattle, Detroit and other cities in states bordering Canada via Greyhound Canada.
For travel into areas not served by Greyhound, passengers may need to transfer onto other bus lines which have inter-line agreements with Greyhound:
- Pacific Coach Lines
- Orléans Express
- Acadiɐn Lines
- Adirondack Trailways
- Vancouver Island Coach Lines
- Grey Goose Bus Lines (a Greyhound subsidiary)
- Saskatchewan Transportation Company
- Yellow Cab (Edmonton)
- Gray Line Banff
- Frontier Coach Lines (Yellowknife, Fort Simpson and Fort Smith, NWT)
[edit] QuickLink commuter service
In Southern Ontario, Greyhound operates a commuter service known as 'QuickLink Commuter Service'[2]. A list of cities served by this service:
- Toronto
- Barrie
- Belleville
- Cambridge
- Grimsby
- Guelph
- Kitchener
- London
- Niagara Falls
- Peterborough
- St Catharines
[edit] NeOn discount service
NeOn, a discount service based on the same model used for BoltBus in the United States, and competing with Megabus, is a service operated by Greyhound Canada in cooperation with Trailways of New York and Greyhound Lines between the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan and the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto.[3]
[edit] Fleet
Greyhound operates 480 buses, but it has an extended fleet through connecting operators:
Greyhound Canada's fleet:
| Make/Model | Description | Fleet size | Year acquired | Year retired | Notes |
| Motor Coach Industries D4505 | suburban coach | 30 | 2006 | N/A |  |
| Motor Coach Industries G4500 | suburban coach | 65 | 2002 | N/A | |
| Motor Coach Industries D4500 | suburban coach | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Motor Coach Industries 102EL3 | suburban coach | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Motor Coach Industries 96A3 | suburban coach | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Motor Coach Industries 102A3 | suburban coach | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Motor Coach Industries 102C3 | suburban coach | 76 | 1989 | N/A | |
| Motor Coach Industries 102D3 | suburban coach | 20 | 1995 | N/A | |
| Motor Coach Industries 102DL3 | suburban coach | 189 | 1995 | N/A | |
| Prevost Car Le Mirage XL40 | suburban coach | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Motor Coach Industries 9 | suburban coach | 44 | 1978 | N/A | |
| Motor Coach Industries-9Sp | suburban coach | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Prevost Car H3-45 | suburban coach | 28 | 1995 | N/A | |
| Dupon Trolley Industries Trolley bus | tour bus | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Daimler Double decker | tour bus | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Leyland Motors Ltd double decker | tour bus | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| International 3400 | suburban coach | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Greyhound Canada also offers courier services via Greyhound Courier Express.
denotes wheelchair accessible vehicles
[edit] Historic
- MCI MC-7 suburban coach
- Twin Coach 38S transit bus
- MCI Courier 100, 100A, 100B, 100C suburban coach
- MCI Courier 200, 200A, 200B suburban coach
- MCI Courier 95, 95D, 96, 97 suburban coach
- MCI Courier 85A, 85-X suburban coach
- Western Flyer Coach P-41R "Canuck" rear engine intercity coach
- MCI MC-1 suburban coach
- MCI MCX-1 suburban coach
- MCI MC-2 suburban coach
- MCI MC-3 suburban coach
- MCI MCX-4 suburban coach
- MCI MC-4 suburban coach
- MCI MCC-5 suburban coach
- MCI MC-5A suburban coach
- MCI MC-6 suburban coach
- MCI MC-8 suburban coach
- MCI MC-5B suburban coach
- MCI MCX-5 suburban coach
- MCI MC-9 suburban coach
- MCI 96A3 suburban coach
- MCI 102DL3 suburban coach
- Yellow Coach 743 intercity suburban coach
- GMC PD-3302 rear engine parlour coach
- CC&F/Brill IC-37 intercity coach
- GMC TDH-4506 "Old Look"
- GMC TDH-4509 "Old Look"
[edit] Unions
- Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1415 represents unionized Greyhound employees Ontario and based in Toronto
