The Craigleith Heritage Depot is a museum, library, tourism and community hub serving The Blue Mountains, Ontario in partnership with The Town of The Blue Mountains Public Library and is the last remaining station standing on Canada's first long-line railroad.

The Northern Railway of Canada[3] acquired the parcel of land that The Craigleith Heritage Depot currently occupies from Sandford and Andrew Fleming in 1872.

The Craigleith Station building was constructed from local timber and included at the time a modern feature in railway design, the rounded turret.

[6] Inside the station there were separate waiting rooms for men and women as well as living quarters for the stationmaster and his family.

[7] Almost every station between Toronto and Collingwood had erected spectacular floral arches beneath which the prince passed in his open observation car.

On the evening before the train trip, post diggers went to work to dig holes for the arches and accidentally severed the cable which controlled the railway signals for miles.

Presently hung on the wall is an original document from the General Roadmaster dated May 6, 1902, outlining the wages of the railway station workers.

[10] Service to Craigleith Station resumed after World War II in 1947 and continued until the 1960s when transportation by automobile drastically reduced ridership.

[2] In 1966, Ken and Suyrea Knapman purchased and restored the building and opened a restaurant on October 26, 1968, naming it The Depot.

They put The Depot up for sale in 1998 when Mr. Knapman's health problems became serious, but they were determined to find a purchaser who would preserve the building.

[citation needed] There is an ongoing project at the Craigleith Heritage Depot called Then and Now,[15] it includes images and video of local history, including an interview with Mrs. Helen Speck Gibson who was born in the Craigleith Railway Station as her father was the station master.

[18] The building has been protected under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act, so designated by the Town of the Blue Mountains since 2003.

1990, as amended, as representing both an historical site and as a substantially original example of late 19th century rail road station architecture.

Sandford Fleming went on to a career as a railway construction engineer, and as well developed the program of Standard Time in use today.

The site includes a still thriving stand of lilacs, known throughout the area, thought originally imported from Scotland and planted by the Fleming family.