CGE 8" Traffic Signal

Here's a nice CGE traffic signal that's looks a lot like a GE "Grooveback" signal aside from the fact that the logo on the back is slightly different and it uses regular aluminium reflectors instead of the glass "cereal bowl" reflectors that the American GEs came with. It's currently being disassembled so I can give it a good cleaning and to replace the rusted screws. The lenses used are glass Kopp TL 4655 "brick" pattern lens with the GE logo embossed in the centre. Later CGE signals had a different back design and no longer had the flat top. The lenses in the later signals were usually poly instead of glass.
Here's a shot of the back:

Note the holes for the terminal block

The CGE 8-8-8 was a common sight in in the Toronto area up to the early-mid 2000s. The signal configuration at the time was a backplated 12-8-8 on the right side and a backplated 8-8-8 on the left side of the intersection. When more heads were needed they were usually a 8-8-8 too. When Markham changed over to LED in the mid 2000s they also got rid of all the old 8-8-8s replacing them with LED poly 12-8-8s.

Toronto slowly started replacing their 8-8-8s with incandescent poly heads (later LED) and by 2010 only a handful of 8-8-8s still remained. The last Toronto 8-8-8 I knew of was replaced with a Fortran poly 12-8-8 with Dialight LEDs in early February of 2012. However you can still find CGE 8-8-8s in some smaller towns and cities in Ontario; particularly in places that still have their old incandescent signals in use. Mississauga still has a handful of old CGE 8-8-8s left but they have been retrofitted to LED using GE RX-11 modules(aka GELcore).