Ian Macdonald provides more information for us. He says
... I attach two variations of the CPR Type T-1 depots. One is the original Sudbury depot and the other was Indian Head on the prairies. You can see the similarity between these 2 depots and the Chapleau depot.

... the single storey baggage room on the Indian Head and Sudbury terminals were shorter by 15 ft. than the Chapleau building and were exclusively baggage rooms.

... the low part of the Chapleau station was both baggage room and waiting room. I'm speculating that the different internal organization of the Chapleau depot was due to the fact that it was a divisional point and probably needed more space for communications, administration etc.

.. although the plans of the depots were basically the same, the local contractors all took liberties in using different materials and architectural devices. Additionally, the roof slopes varied as well. You can see how much steeper the roof on the Sudbury depot is than either Indian Head or Chapleau.

Vince Crichton wrote in the 1960s ... the station as shown here consisted of two buildings. They were the station proper for operators, staff etc. and a smaller building with the waiting and baggage rooms. These two buildings were later moved to lots on Monk Street. The buildings where purchased, and moved to their present sites and then remodelled into dwellings by G.B. Nicholson. The old station proper was later owned by Walter Steeds and was his residence at 37 Monk Street. The baggage and waiting room were later the residence of Arthur Whybray and Adam Andrews at 33 and 35 Monk Street.

Ian Macdonald tells us more about the two houses on Monk Street
... they were the original station buildings. Dr. Frank Broomhead has his office in the building that was the single storey part of the old station. The two storey section is right beside it (south of it).

... the new station opened in 1909.

... it's all fascinating stuff for me. I'm sure Van Horne would have been quite surprised that the Chapleau buildings still stand in 2005. They were built in a very cost effective manner (the CPR was running out of money at that time) and really not expected to have a life span much beyond 25 years. I guess you could say they were the first examples of sustainable architecture.

This picture shows the layout of the tracks in 1886. Vince Crichton tells it as follows:

The C.P.R. yard at Chapleau in 1886. Note the old station to the right which was then located at the third set of tracks from the present station. This old main line is now called the steam or runaround track. The water tower in the picture is where the (1960s) enginemen's booking-in office is.

The water tank received water from a pumping station located in the lane between Thrush's house at 6 Pine Street and the ball field that was located east of this lane along the river bank, then part of the old high school's property. The picture was taken from the elevation near the present (1999) pedestrian overpass, where the tracks pass through a cut.

Ian Macdonald makes the following observations.

... I see what appears to be a building, structure(s) between the third and second tracks. Vince Crichton, in his description of the old station location of the the C.P.R. yard in 1886 observed that the old station was on the third track (runabout) from the present station. This would make the third track in the 1910 photograph the original main line and suggest strongly that the building I see is the original terminal which was subsequently moved over to Monk Street.

... This begins to address some of the questions about how they phased from the original 1885 terminal to the newer 1909 terminal. It would appear that they built the present main-line and the second set of tracks along with the 1909 station behind the original station and probably moved the old terminal after all the construction was completed (probably in 1910 or 11)...

1909	New C.P.R. Station with C.E. Deakin, contractor and staff at completion of the new station in 1909. The upper part has since been added and enlarged. (Vince Crichton)

1936

The Chapleau C.P.R. station about 1936. We are looking south. This is where the winter carnival parade started, on west side of the station. Arch of trees with welcome sign lighted with electric lights, red, blue and yellow. Very effective. Trees were iced, so sparkled in day time. What year? 1936? This photo is from the historical Photographs of John Futhey.

1949

The garden in front of the Chapleau C.P.R. station in 1949. Looking north. The gardener Steve Feluski lived behind Bob Broughton's. Steve was an excellent horticulturalist and made the C.P.R. station property a beautiful landscape of flowers and shrubs. From the John Futhey Collection. Slide taken by Arthur J. Grout. Editor's note: This station also no longer exists.