Voyageur Colonial Bus Lines

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Current paint scheme with Greyhound family stripes.
Parent company	Greyhound Canada
Founded	1928
Service area	Eastern Ontario, Western Quebec
Service type	Intercity bus service
Web site	Greyhound Canada

Bus still in the old livery, leaving the Greyhound Courier Express depot in Toronto, in June 2008

Voyageur Colonial Bus Lines, commonly just called Voyageur, is an intercity bus company founded in 1928 that serves Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec, primarily the cities of Montreal, Ottawa and Kingston.

History

This section requires expansion.

Greyhound ownership

CSL Equity Investments Inc., 50% owned by Paul Martin's family, sold Voyageur's bus routes to Greyhound Canada in 1998.

The sale of the bus routes did not include the terminals in Ottawa and Montreal, which are still owned by Voyageur Colonial and by CSL. In addition, the Voyageur Colonial brand is used on three Ottawa-Montreal lines: Montreal/Ottawa EXPRESS, Montreal/Ottawa (via Dorion/Hawkesbury) south of the Ottawa River and Montreal/Ottawa (via Lachute/Hawkesbury) north of the Ottawa River.

Typical Bus Layout

The typical bus seats 48 passengers. Windows are usually tinted dark, and the seats are grouped in pairs. The seating units themselves house one average person each, are well cushioned and coloured abstractly but more or less innocuously. A short ride of two hours is usually a decently comfortable ride in seating conditions such as these. There is no food service and bathroom facility is an enclosed area the size of a large closet in an average home. The best time to use the toilet is at the start of a trip when the bathroom is at its cleanest. Longer trips can make for a less desirable bathroom environment due to the probability of higher usage of one unit between cleanings at major bus stations.

References

See also

• Greyhound Canada
• Gray Coach Lines
• Montreal Bus Terminal
• Ottawa Bus Central Station
• Ontario private bus operators

External links

• Greyhound Canada
• Ottawa Schedule
• Historical timeline