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radial Hist. 
n. one of a number of interurban electric railways operated in southern Ontario from the 1890's to the 1940's, so called because the lines radiated from Toronto.
- 1916 When he foisted the hydro-radial scheme on the municipalities in January 1916, he had come to the point where he would make hydro-electric compete with all systems of radial and inter-urban lines in that part of Ontario.
- 1921 The radial roads between Brantford and Hamilton, Brantford and Paris and Brantford and Port Dover carried out the hunters by the hundreds. . . .
- 1966 [Caption] In the 20s, the plans of Ontario Hydro's founder . . . to expand the network of York County's radial cars were thwarted.
- 1966 [Caption] The radials: commuter dream of the auto killed.
- 1916 When he foisted the hydro-radial scheme on the municipalities in January 1916, he had come to the point where he would make hydro-electric compete with all systems of radial and inter-urban lines in that part of Ontario.