Chronology
Every dated history fact across the site, in date order. Precision varies — some dates are just a year — so ordering within a year is approximate. Showing companies.
| Date | Subject | Statement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1889-01-11 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The committee appointed by the Council to look into the alleged grievances of some residents of the southern part of the city owing to the shunting of cars and the occasional stoppage to traffic by the Canada Atlantic Railway Company met, and the company sent the committee a reply to the complaints made, stating that they have no other place to do their shunting, and as to the danger at the crossings, they have had for years diligent and faithful watchmen employed. | Ottawa Citizen 1889-01-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1889-01-19≥ | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Before His Honour, Judge Ross, Patrick Hurley, county constable, was yesterday sworn in as city policeman and will do duty at the Elgin street station and on the line of the Canada Atlantic Railway. | Ottawa Citizen 1889-01-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1889-01-21 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The Canada Atlantic company are now having built by the Rathbun Lumber company of Deseronto two hundred twenty ton platform cars, thirty four feet in length, which will be needed in the Chaudiere lumber business, and fifty of that number are now at Ottawa. | Ottawa Journal 1889-01-21(A follow-up report (Ottawa Free Press, 1889-02-04)...) |
| 1889-01-21 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Mr. J.E. Chamberlain, General Manager of the Canada Atlantic Railway, said: 'To aid us in the large lumber carrying business we expect to receive, we have just completed the construction of 1,000 feet of new dock at La Colle for the shipment of Canadian lumber via C.A.R. and boat lines to Whiteball.' He said the company could carry the lumber twenty-five to fifty cents per thousand feet cheaper than by boat from Ottawa. | Ottawa Journal 1889-01-21(Chamberlain spoke to the Journal reporter 'last ev...) |
| 1889-01-24≤ | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company will apply to the local legislature for an act to amend its charter and for the extension of its line to Renfrew, or to some other point on the C.P.R. | Mercury 1889-01-24(Almonte Gazette per Churcher's header, but the exi...) |
| 1889-02-14 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Renfrew Railway Company | Meeting of charter members of the Ottawa and Arnprior Railway. | Ottawa Free Press 1889-02-14(Churcher's masthead calls it the 'Ottawa and Arnpr...) |
| 1889-02-20≤ | The Central Counties Railway Company | A bill recently introduced by Mr. Edwards, respecting the Prescott County Railway, changes the name to 'Central Counties Railway Company,' and makes an addition to the present Act of incorporation, so as to empower the company to extend their line from some point in Stormont or Russell on the Canada Atlantic Railway, to the village of Rockland, with a branch to Ottawa City; and another extension to the town of Buckingham, and up the Lievre river and to Gilmour's mills on the Gatineau River. It is proposed to cross the river at Rockland either by means of steam ferry or a bridge. | Ottawa Citizen 1889-02-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1889-04-06≥ | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The new railway station indicator invented by Mr. J.P. O'Brien was tested yesterday on the Canada Atlantic Railway between Ottawa and Montreal and found perfectly satisfactory. The indicator will be on all passenger trains in future. The Intercolonial will be the next to use the indicator. | Ottawa Journal 1889-04-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1889-04-16 | The Central Counties Railway Company | Name changed to Central Counties Railway Co. by Canada Act 52 V Chap 80 | CNRHist |
| 1889-05-01 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | A new piling ground is to be laid out by Chaudiere lumber firms adjacent to the C.A.R. at Bank street and will comprise 50 acres. A track is now being laid on the reserve. | Ottawa Free Press 1889-05-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1889-05-17 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The C.A.R. have a large gang of men and a construction train engaged in grading up the approaches to their level crossings on Bridge, Lett and Lloyd Streets. When they have done this work the city engineer will bring before the Board of Works the question of grading them so as to avoid the steep ascent to Wellington Street. | Ottawa Journal 1889-05-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1889-05-23 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The new offices for the general officials of the Canada Atlantic Railway, immediately over Durie's stationery store, on Sparks street, are now ready for occupation. Part of the officials have already moved in. The city ticket office will still be run by Mr. S. Ebbs, in its present location in the Russell House block. | Ottawa Citizen 1889-05-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1889-07-23 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The Canada Atlantic employees excursion to Clarke's Island, which left the city at 7 o'clock, was the largest that ever left Ottawa for that place. Over one thousand people attended, and sixteen cars were required for their accommodation. The C.A.R. employees special for Clarke's Island left Elgin Street at 6.45 a.m., while a special started from Chaudiere about 25 minutes earlier, stopping at Rochesterville, Bank Street etc. so as to accommodate people from that vicinity and Hull. A report the next day describes it as the 'Third annual employees picnic to Clark's Island.' | Ottawa Journal 1889-07-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1889-07-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1889-07-24(Confirms it as the company's 'third annual employe...) |
| 1889-08-27 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | A new railway construction for Mr. Booth's piling ground commences at the crossing of Rochester Street from the main line of the C.A.R. Here a branch line strikes off towards the dam; this line afterwards divides, and there are already some 2,200 feet of steel rails laid, consisting of two branches of 600 feet each and one of 1,000 feet. | Ottawa Journal 1889-08-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1889-08-28(Says 'There will be two branches, one 600 and the ...) |
| 1890 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | Acquired locomotive #1 from the CPR. | Railroad History Bulletin #147 |
| 1890-02-01 | The Coteau and Province Line Railway and Bridge Company | Bridge over the St. Lawrence opened. | CNRHist |
| 1890-03-07≤ | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The Chronicle says it is in a position to announce that the early construction of the Ottawa, Arnprior, Renfrew & Parry Sound Railway is now an assured fact. The Board of Directors have made arrangements for the location of the line, and a party of surveyors will commence work at once. | Almonte Gazette 1890-03-07(Churcher's masthead names the company 'Ottawa, Arn...) |
| 1890-03-15 | The Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway Company | The work of surveying the new line of railway from Ottawa to Parry Sound was commenced by Mr. G.A. Mountain, chief engineer of the C.A.R., on Thursday last, with assistants Messrs. J.A. Simpson and A.H.N. Bruce. This line will connect with the C.A.R. at Ottawa and is to be known as the Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway. Mr. J.R. Booth, one of the prominent directors of the new line, said: 'At present we are surveying our end of the road. Forty miles at the...Sound end of the line is contracted for and is being constructed. This portion connects with the Northern Pacific Junction at Eganville, as will also our line...Construction will be begun early in the spring.' | Ottawa Journal 1890-03-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1890-04-04 | The Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway Company | The surveyors of the Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway have been making good progress. The route so far has been surveyed up through the valley of the Bonnecheree to Killaloe, then across to the Opeongo and into the Madawaska valley as far as Booth's depot, and it presents no serious obstacles. They are expected to reach the western terminus this week. The distance between Renfrew and Parry Sound is 180 miles. | Almonte Gazette 1890-04-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1890-04-11 | The Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway Company | The line is surveyed for nearly the whole distance and Mr. Mountain, C.E., and his staff are now engaged in surveying and locating the Parry Sound end. The line will form part of the western system of the C.A.R. | Ottawa Journal 1890-04-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1890-04-18 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The company to build the Ottawa, Renfrew & Parry Sound Railway has been organized and stock books opened. Two charters have been granted — one from Renfrew to Parry Sound, by the Dominion Government; the other from Renfrew to Ottawa, is a local charter granted by the Ontario government. The company organized is under the Dominion charter. | Almonte Gazette 1890-04-18(Churcher's masthead names the company 'Ottawa, Ren...) |
| 1890-05-09≤ | The Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway Company | A further step has been taken in connection with the Ottawa and Parry Sound R.R.: a part of the right of way has been purchased and some grading done. | Almonte Gazette 1890-05-09(Quoting the Renfrew Journal. Transcribed by Colin ...) |
| 1890-06-27 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The C.A.R. had intended to erect new workshops at Clark's Island this summer. Their decision to build a branch line at Ottawa from the station down to the canal basin interfered with this arrangement, and the shops on Clark's Island have been re-arranged and temporarily fixed up pending the time when the construction can be commenced. A report three days later says the company is instead constructing four new sidings on the side of the canal near Ottawa East, to relieve the Elgin Street freight yard and lessen shunting, providing about as much accommodation as the present yard; owing to this work the old workshops (rather than new ones at Clarke's Island) have been remodeled to suit present emergencies. | Ottawa Free Press 1890-06-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1890-06-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1890-07-26 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Twenty-one car loads filled with employees of the Canada Atlantic railway, their families and friends, left the Elgin street depot at 7 o'clock bound for Clark's Island and Valleyfield, for the annual picnic of the C.A.R. staff, with a long list of games and handsome prizes. Mr. Donaldson, mechanical superintendent, accompanied the party, which returned to the city at nine o'clock that evening; nearly two thousand persons in all went down. The locomotive was beautifully decorated with streamers, flags and flowers; the 43rd battalion band played, and a buffet car dispensed refreshments; a second engine was needed to help surmount some of the grades given the heavy load. The homeward trip, aided by a couple more locomotives, reached the city between nine and ten o'clock. | Ottawa Free Press 1890-07-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1890-07-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1890-07-28(Says the train consisted of twenty-one cars, and 1...) |
| 1890-10-04 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | As was expected when the new and splendid bridge across the St. Lawrence was constructed, the Canada Atlantic Railway is floating first mortgage bonds on the road: it has issued $3,450,000 of first mortgage 5 per cent twenty-year bonds with interest payable on Jan. 5 and July 5. The net earnings of the Canada Atlantic Railway for the six months ending June 30, 1890, are $121,810, an increase of $14,370 over the earnings of 1889 and $35,560 in excess of 5 per cent interest on the proposed issue. | New York Times 1890-10-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1890-10-11 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | A special committee re-considered the Bank Street crossing shunting complaint. Mr. Marcus Smith, for the petitioners, said the company had promised to do certain things but had not done much to abate the nuisance; the complaint was against the making up of lumber trains, which shunted backwards and forwards over the line, impeding traffic and posing a danger. He said there were only six or seven tracks in the yard, where some thirty or forty were required, and that the government had no objection to the proposed central depot at the Canal Basin, but a hitch had occurred between the companies. Mr. Chamberlain, returning to the city, said Mr. Smith had misunderstood him: about this time last year he had said they were nearly through their season's work with green lumber and the nuisance would be abated, but made no permanent promise; and that, contrary to what Smith understood, no negotiations over a central depot had broken down since none had been entered into, the C.A.R.'s plans for the proposed work not yet having been approved by the Railway Committee. | Ottawa Citizen 1890-10-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1890-10-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1890-10-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1890-10-18 | The Central Counties Railway Company | An enthusiastic meeting was held at Vankleek Hill concerning the Central Counties Railway and its connection to the C.A.R. | Ottawa Journal 1890-10-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1890-10-31≤ | The Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway Company | In a few days the survey of the Ottawa and Parry Sound railway between Ottawa and Arnprior will be completed. The new road will not enter Ottawa but will pass off in a southerly direction, connecting with the C.A.R. at Eastman's Springs or some other point thereabouts. A branch line for passenger traffic may though be run into the city. Through freightage from Parry Sound to New York is the idea of the company. | Ottawa Journal 1890-10-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1890-11-28 | The Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway Company | The preliminary survey of the Ottawa & Parry Sound Railway has been completed to Carp village on the alternative route back to Ottawa, expected to reach the city by December 1; the two routes will then be ready for selection. The first, the Torbolton or river route, runs through Nepean, March, Torbolton and Fitzroy to Arnprior, passing the Chats rapids and a galena lead mine owned by Robertson Bros. of Montreal. The other, the Carp route, runs through Nepean, March, Huntley and Fitzroy to Arnprior, passing a phosphate mine now being opened up. Mr. G.A. Mountain, the engineer in charge, found the country along both routes excellent, with exceedingly good grades; the distance to Arnprior by this route is about 33 miles, with scarcely a mile's difference between the two routes. | Mercury 1890-11-28(Renfrew Mercury per Churcher's header. Transcribed...) |
| 1890-12-01 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | A passenger, R. Bowden, bought a first-class ticket at Bearbrook station, good to Ottawa and return, on December 1, 1890. Delayed in Ottawa, he missed the 1.30 accommodation train back to Bearbrook and took the 5 p.m. Montreal express instead, which was not timed to stop at Bearbrook; the Ottawa station agent said he thought the conductor would let him off there. Conductor Cole collected the ticket and demanded thirty cents extra fare (the fare to Casselman, the nearest station the express was timed to stop at), then let Bowden and his companions off at Bearbrook as requested. General Manager Chamberlin said the extra charge was to Casselman and that the 5 p.m. train did not stop at Bearbrook, though Bowden said he could prove it had stopped there that evening (December 9) to let passengers off. The Journal's editor, replying in the same column, said the conductor had done his duty in collecting the legal fare to Casselman and suggested Bowden had an old quarrel with Cole. | Ottawa Journal 1890-12-11(Letter from R. Bowden of Bearbrook, dated Dec. 9, ...) |
| 1891 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | Construction Begins | Stevens p367(Thanks to Jeffrey P. Smith) |
| 1891-01-08 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Ald. Gordon presented the report of the special committee appointed to deal with the complaint of residents of Bank street against the C.A. Railway. It recommended that the company be asked to desist from shunting on the streets complained of, and that if they did not comply, any application by the petitioners to the Railway Committee of the Privy Council to cause them to desist would be supported by the Corporation. The report was adopted. | Ottawa Citizen 1891-01-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1891-01-08 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Mr. Mountain and staff, who are now at work locating the line of the Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway, have reached Eganville's farm, on the Madawaska, about twenty miles west of Bark Lake. Mr. Mountain reports a very favourable line, and says that from Renfrew to Eganville's Farm the line is one of the most favourable he has ever travelled over. | Mercury 1891-01-08(Renfrew Mercury per Churcher's header. Transcribed...) |
| 1891-03-31 | The Central Counties Railway Company | Ground was broken at Glen Robertson on the Canada Atlantic today for the Central Counties Railway, which will run from there across country by Vankleek Hill and Caledonia Springs to the Vaudreuil and Ottawa Railway. Work will be pushed rapidly. | Ottawa Journal 1891-03-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1891-04-01(Says the Central Counties Railway Company broke gr...) |
| 1891-04-14 | The Central Counties Railway Company | A meeting of the provisional board of the Central Counties Railway took place at the office of Mr. C.R. Cunningham, the president; the survey is completed and the first sod turned. The road will connect with the C.A.R.; the Glen Robertson line (20 miles) is the first branch, with three more planned to begin next year — Cornwall to Moose Creek, Rockland to South Indian or Casselman, and Vankleek Hill to Caledonia Springs (likely the next built) — all connecting with the C.A.R. and running to Ottawa. The total length of the four branches will be 67 miles. | Ottawa Journal 1891-04-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1891-05-01 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Mr. G.A. Mountain, Chief Engineer of the C.A.R., returned to Ottawa on April 23rd from a drive over the Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound railway, from Ottawa to the Bonnechere Valley, a distance of 100 miles; the road has been located to that point. Mr. Mountain went with a party of contractors proposing to tender for construction, who were highly pleased with the geographical features: grades and curves easy, similar to the C.A.R.'s, though some places would be expensive owing to heavy rock cuttings and timber clearings. The distance to Renfrew by the proposed route will be 50 miles, against 70 by the C.P.R.; the 100 miles located is halfway to North Pacific Junction. An application for amalgamation of the Ottawa, Arnprior & Renfrew and the Renfrew and Parry Sound railways, whose charters were granted at different times, was said to be coming before Parliament this session as a mere formality. | Mercury 1891-05-01(Renfrew Mercury per Churcher's header, itself quot...) |
| 1891-06-12 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The act for amalgamating the Ottawa and Arnprior and Ottawa and Parry Sound Railroads received its second reading on June 1st. Mr. R. Turner showed a letter from Mr. John Ferguson, M.P. for the South Riding, stating that negotiations were in progress for a contract to build 200 miles of the road, commencing at Ottawa. | Mercury 1891-06-12(Renfrew Mercury per Churcher's header. Transcribed...) |
| 1891-06-29 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The fifth annual excursion of the C.A.R. employees took place to Clark's Island on Saturday, the most successful yet held. At 7 o'clock the train of fifteen coaches, drawn by engines 15 and 14, steamed out of the Elgin street depot with fully one thousand aboard, including Superintendent Donaldson and the committee, who travelled in a Pullman at the rear; a mail car was turned into a refreshment car. Clark's Island was reached at 10:25; several excursionists also came up from Valleyfield. Sports were held through the afternoon with the Guards band playing; at 5:30 the train recrossed the great Coteau bridge on the return journey, arriving at Elgin street at 10:30. The Ottawa Free Press's fuller account says eighteen cars were used, with No. 14 under engineer Phil Roy and fireman Fred Chase, and No. 15 under engineer Ed. Chase and fireman Tom Kane. | Ottawa Journal 1891-06-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1891-07-24 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The bill for the amalgamation of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Renfrew Railway and the Renfrew and Parry Sound Railway charters under the title of 'The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company' has passed its third reading in the House of Commons, and is now before the Senate for confirmation. It was learned that as soon as the bill passed the Senate, construction work would begin at once. | Mercury 1891-07-24(Renfrew Mercury per Churcher's header, quoting the...) |
| 1891-07-27≤ | The Central Counties Railway Company | The engineer of the Central Counties Railway, Mr. Frank Hibbard, was in town today and stated he would want some five hundred men for construction purposes in a few days. | Ottawa Journal 1891-07-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1891-07-31 | The Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway Company | Amalgamated with the Ottawa, Arnprior and Renfrew to form the Ottawa,Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company. Victoria 54-55, chapter 93. Deed of amalgamation dated 1898-05-18. | CNRHist |
| 1891-07-31 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Formed from amalgamation of Ottawa and Parry Sound Ry Co and Ottawa,Arnprior and Renfrew Ry Co. Deed of amalgamation 1896-07-15. Victoria 54-55, chapter 93. | Bell p158 |
| 1891-08-21 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | An act uniting the Ottawa and Parry Sound R.R. and the Ottawa, Arnprior & Renfrew R.R. has received the royal assent. The new road will be known as the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound R.R. | Almonte Gazette 1891-08-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1891-09-28≤ | The Central Counties Railway Company | The Central Counties Railway will be completed to Vankleek Hill by Saturday night. There will be a great excursion from there to Ottawa on the 29th, costing only one dollar to go and return. | Ottawa Journal 1891-09-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1891-10-23 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Some people around Arnprior were beginning to wonder whether the proposed railway from Ottawa to Arnprior and Parry Sound wasn't all an election dodge. | Almonte Gazette 1891-10-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1891-11-18 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | A special committee of the City Council on shunting grievances met, with Marcus Smith representing residents; Mr. John McRae had suggested the C.A.R. come up the east side of the canal to a projected Central depot at Sappers Bridge, or carry the road along the canal bank near the Exhibition grounds to reach the Chaudiere extension. Ald. Cunningham objected this would require costly new road-building and that a Central depot was premature without an Ottawa River bridge; he noted the incoming Arnprior railway would strike the city near the Experimental Farm, complicating any C.A.R. relocation. Marcus Smith called the shunting nuisance 'an outrage' and threatened an injunction if unaddressed; Ald. Cox noted the company had land near Elgin Street, used as a 'car pasture', that could become a shunting yard. It was resolved to get the city solicitor's written opinion, and for the mayor and solicitor to attend the Railway Committee of the Privy Council on the 24th regarding the C.A.R.'s proposed charter amendment. | Ottawa Journal 1891-11-18(A prior committee meeting on the same grievance (1...),Ottawa Citizen 1891-11-10(Says the meeting was on 'C.A. Railway matters' see...) |
| 1891-11-20 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A trunk line is now being built from Ottawa to Parry Sound (210 miles total), of which forty miles are now under contract to Mr. Reid of Montreal, to be completed next year; the road will probably strike Ottawa near the Experimental Farm, traversing Nepean, March and Fitzroy townships to Arnprior, then the Bonnechere valley through McNab and Admaston to Eganville, then Nipissing and Parry Sound districts to the port of Parry Sound. Two charters make up the line: Ottawa to Arnprior, headed by McLaughlin Brothers, and Arnprior to Parry Sound, in the hands of Mr. John R. Booth. Western grain-elevator interests were said to favour the scheme and offered to build elevators at Parry Sound and other points; Hon. C.F. Fraser of Brockville was reportedly advocating a connecting line from Brockville to this trunk line. | Ottawa Journal 1891-11-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1891-12-02≤ | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | About the 10th inst. the road expects to open from Valleyfield to Malone, N.Y. It is thirty-one miles long and will give the Canada Atlantic Railway independent connection with the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain division of the Central Vermont system and, if the New York Central's proposed northern extension from Herkimer is carried out, with that railway's trunk line too. | Ottawa Citizen 1891-12-02(No subdivision entity identified for this Valleyfi...) |
| 1891-12-31 | The Central Counties Railway Company | Indenture by Canada Atlantic Ry to lease the Hawkesbury section for 99 years. | CNRHist |
| 1892-01-04 | The Central Counties Railway Company | Line opened from Hawkesbury to Glen Robertson, 21 miles | CNRHist |
| 1892-03-11 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Mr. George A. Mountain, chief of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway surveying party, and his staff of twenty-four men returned to Ottawa, having left on November 20, 1891 and surveyed 120 miles of road while travelling over 500 miles of rough, unsettled country through the Nipissing district (largely on snowshoes, dragging supplies on sleds); the cost of the expedition was estimated at about $60 per day. Mr. Mountain stated his report would be very favorable and that he had no doubt construction would begin in the spring; his plans were to be presented to Mr. J.R. Booth the following week. The country's most valuable product was noted to be its forests of maple, birch and beech, and Mr. Mountain brought back ore specimens believing nickel and silver to be the district's principal minerals. | Mercury 1892-03-11(Renfrew Mercury, quoting the Ottawa Free Press. Tr...) |
| 1892-04-08 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A deputation (Warden Kidd, Dr. Groves, James Wilson and D. McElroy) presented Mr. J.R. Booth with plans for an alternate survey of the line through Huntley and Fitzroy townships, claimed to be shorter and cheaper than the route the company had fixed on, along with subscription lists for right of way through Huntley ($5,000) and an estimate for Fitzroy ($7,000); Booth agreed to look into it and forward the plans to Mr. Mountain. Separately, it was reported that surveyors were selecting a route from Shawville to Renfrew, and that Booth intended to acquire the Pontiac and Pacific Junction Railway from Shawville and build a branch to Renfrew to meet the original O.A. & P.S. survey there, doing away with the proposed direct line between Ottawa and Arnprior; the P.P.J.'s directors were said to be anxious to sell. | Ottawa Journal 1892-04-04(Also quoted verbatim in the Almonte Gazette of 8 A...),Ottawa Free Press 1892-04-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1892-04-08(Renfrew Mercury; substantially the same deputation...) |
| 1892-04-15 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Dr. Dowling, M.P.P., introduced a deputation consisting of J.R. Booth, ex-mayor McDougall and F. Fleck of Ottawa, along with several local men, to ask the government for aid in building the part of the O.A. & P.S. line running through colonization and unorganized districts, which had no rail service to fifteen townships. The matter was promised due consideration. Separately, Arnprior papers were trying to stir up public interest in having the line routed through Arnprior rather than reaching Renfrew by way of the Pontiac and Pacific Junction R.R. and a branch across the Ottawa River from Shawville, as was then proposed. | Mercury 1892-04-15(Renfrew Mercury. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher ...) |
| 1892-05-27 | The Central Counties Railway Company | A deputation from Glengarry and Prescott counties waited upon the Government and asked for a subsidy for the Central Counties Railway, which runs from Glen Robertson to Hawkesbury. | Morrisburg Courier 1892-05-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-06-06 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The Canada Atlantic Railway ran a press trip to Montreal via Clark's Island and the Lachine Rapids, which included a ride in the cab of engine No. 14, described as the fastest engine at present owned by the company. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-06-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-06-17 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The by-law granting a bonus of $30,000 to the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound R.R. received its third reading in the Arnprior council; the money was to be paid over once the council received a guarantee that the new road would remain wholly independent of the C.P.R., or any other railway under its control, for thirty years. The same day, Mr. Fleck, secretary of the company, went to Arnprior and handed over the bonds and agreements made with the company, the resulting debentures being placed with the Bank of Ottawa. | Almonte Gazette 1892-06-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1892-06-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-06-22 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The C.A.R. found it impossible to provide a sufficient number of cars for its annual employees' picnic to Clarke's Island, originally set for June 27th, and the picnic was indefinitely postponed. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-06-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1892-08-24("It seems as if the Canada Atlantic employees were...) |
| 1892-07-06 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The C.A.R. placed Mr. Peter Robinson's patent gravity bolt on a portion of their line near the Elgin street depot, in order to make a fair test of its efficacy. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-07-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-07-07 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The management of the Bell St. and McLeod St. Sunday schools arranged with the Canada Atlantic Railway to hold an excursion and picnic to Eastman's Springs on Friday, July 8th. Trains were to leave Elgin street station at 8 a.m. and 2.15 p.m., and the C.A. Railway consented to have two coaches leave from Lebreton street at 7.30 a.m. to accommodate excursionists from Mount Sherwood. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-07-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-07-19 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The first sod of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway was turned at 7 a.m. on July 19, 1892 at Mr. Wm. Rivington's farm about half a mile east of Carp village, before a large crowd. The ceremony was performed by G.N. Kidd, Warden of Carleton County, witnessed by chief engineer George A. Mountain and his engineering staff, contractors Fauquier Bros., and numerous local dignitaries and Ottawa guests. That evening the warden hosted a champagne supper for about thirty of those who had worked to have the line located through Huntley township, with toasts to the Queen, to company president John R. Booth (answered in his absence by Mr. Charles Mohr, Reeve of Fitzroy), and to the engineering staff. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-07-19("The work of the construction of the Ottawa and Pa...),Almonte Gazette 1892-07-22(Detailed account of ground-breaking and the evenin...),Almonte Gazette 1892-07-29(Fuller account of the same ceremony and supper, na...) |
| 1892-07-29 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | At a Renfrew public meeting called after rumours that the C.P.R. would build a rival line to Parry Sound, Mr. Jas. Craig said the O.A. & P.S. was now under construction, and that part of the right of way between Renfrew and Eganville had been purchased; he was authorized to say the O.A. & P.S. would be built to Renfrew without costing the town a cent. Mr. P. Devine added that Mr. Booth had assured some Renfrew gentlemen that the line would be completed to Renfrew by September 1893, or earlier. | Mercury 1892-07-29(Renfrew Mercury, reporting a public meeting of Ren...) |
| 1892-08-31 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | J.R. Booth decided to route the Parry Sound road through Pembroke. | Ottawa Journal 1892-08-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-09-03 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The C.A.R. held its sixth annual excursion and picnic for employees at Clark Island Park on Saturday, September 3, 1892. Twenty-one cars, carrying some 900 C.A.R. employees, their families, friends and the general public, left the C.A.R. depot on Elgin Street at 7 a.m., with connections made by a train leaving Broad street crossing at 6.30 a.m. and stopping at Lebreton street; Mr. W. Codd held the refreshment contract and ran a special dining car on the train and large marquees on the grounds. The engine was No. 61, decorated with red, white and blue ribbons. About 1,500 persons were expected in the park that day. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-08-31("The picnic of the C.A.R. employees to Clark Islan...),Ottawa Free Press 1892-09-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1892-09-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1892-09-03(Day-of report confirming the departure and car cou...),Ottawa Citizen 1892-09-05("Clark Island picnic, 21 cars with engine No. 61. ...),Ottawa Journal 1892-09-06(Brief follow-up confirming twenty-one cars were us...) |
| 1892-09-16 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | At a meeting of Eganville ratepayers held September 16, 1892 to consider a bonus for the rival C.P.R. Atlantic & North-Western line, Mr. James Reeves read a letter from Mr. J.R. Booth saying that he was determined on pushing on his road (the O.A. & P.S.) as rapidly as possible. Booth said that if the townships put out enough money to buy the right-of-way through them, some grading would be done and contracts let for timber and tie contracts for a 50 mile radius. | Mercury 1892-09-30(Renfrew Mercury, reporting the September 16 meetin...),Eganville Leader 1892-09-30(Fuller account of the same meeting and letter, inc...) |
| 1892-09-30 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | It was reported that Mr. Booth had purchased the Parry Sound Colonization Railway — the line from the Northern Railway to Parry Sound, which had at one time been reported to be under C.P.R. control. | Eganville Leader 1892-09-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-10 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | Booth's acquisition announced. | Bell pp.45-52 |
| 1892-10-07 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | At the annual meeting of the Ottawa & Parry Sound Railway Company, the following were elected directors: Messrs. J.D. Booth, Claude McLachlin, Charles Mohr, Wm. Anderson, C.J. Booth, N. Mackintosh and J.F. Booth. Separately that week, at a meeting of the Ottawa Board of Trade, Mr. A.W. Fleck applied for a city bonus for the railway; Mr. Mountain (the road's engineer) and Mr. C.J. Smith (traffic manager of the Canada Atlantic Railway) spoke on the trade it would develop and the benefits to Ottawa, and Mountain said contracts had been let for the first portion of the road, to be completed by October 20. The Board resolved to ask City Council to submit a by-law for $125,000: $100,000 for stock in the railway and $25,000 toward a grand central railway depot. | Almonte Gazette 1892-10-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1892-10-07(Renfrew Mercury, on the Board of Trade meeting. Tr...) |
| 1892-10-14≥ | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | By mid-October 1892 the Ottawa & Parry Sound Railway was progressing, with bright prospects for the future. The Board of Trade of Ottawa, at a meeting held a few nights before, had strongly recommended that the city grant the new road a bonus of $125,000, this being thought due it as opening up a direct route from the Great Lakes to the sea by way of Ottawa, and as part of the Canada Atlantic railway system, whose management had always been friendly and liberal. | Almonte Gazette 1892-10-14(Quoting the Renfrew Journal. Transcribed by Colin ...) |
| 1892-10-31 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The O.A. & P.S.'s application for two crossings over the C.P.R. (an overhead crossing near the Experimental Farm and a level crossing in Nepean township, some six miles west of Ottawa) was argued at length before the Railway Committee of the Privy Council over several sessions in late October, 1892. The O.A. & P.S. (represented by A.J. Christie, Q.C., with Mr. Booth and chief engineer Mountain attending) argued a 40-foot span was sufficient for the overhead crossing and that a level crossing in Nepean was safe and far cheaper (about $3,680 versus roughly $34,000-$40,000 for an overhead bridge); the C.P.R. (represented by ex-Judge Clarke and vice-president T.G. Shaughnessy) argued for a 100-foot span and against the level crossing as dangerous, citing the grade and calling several of its engineers and a conductor as witnesses. Government engineer Mr. Schreiber's report slightly favoured the level crossing. The committee reserved its decision. | Ottawa Journal 1892-10-28(First day's hearing. Transcribed by Colin J. Churc...),Ottawa Citizen 1892-10-29(Second day's hearing. Transcribed by Colin J. Chur...),Ottawa Citizen 1892-10-31(Third day's hearing (Oct 29 morning/evening sessio...) |
| 1892-11-01 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | In connection with the claim that bonusing the O., A. & P.S. railway would be a paying investment for the city, the pay roll of the C.A.R. was cited: about 300 men employed at Ottawa, monthly wages $16,000, total monthly wages $20,000, and about 280 workingmen on construction. | Ottawa Journal 1892-11-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-11-11 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | Another New Railway. The Pembroke Observer reported a rumour that a number of local capitalists were arranging to apply to parliament for a charter to build a railway from Pembroke to Haliburton, some 80 to 100 miles, to connect at Haliburton with the Victoria branch of the Grand Trunk railway (which runs from Orillia), the Midland Railway running from Orillia to the Georgian Bay at Waubaushene. | Almonte Gazette 1892-11-11(Quoting the Pembroke Observer. Transcribed by Coli...) |
| 1892-12-01 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | A newspaper report on Mr. J.W. McRae's scheme for a railway belt line around Ottawa, connecting with the Canada Atlantic Railway's spur line, criticized the original siting of the C.A.R.'s Elgin Street station: "the bridge across the canal should have been placed in a position for the trains to run directly into the station without crossing Elgin street, and there they should have stopped, then gone back to a point on the line west of the Rideau River, and constructed the railway to the Chaudiere on the route suggested for the belt line, which would have cost less than the present line and avoided all the difficulties that have occurred from the blunder of the present location." The article also noted that Mr. Booth's contemplated workshops, engine house and yard, sited on the belt line, would need about 50 acres of land "outside the city all together free from any road crossings whatever, and not near any dwellings." | Ottawa Citizen 1892-12-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-12-21 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | Ottawa people showed appreciative interest in the building of the Parry Sound Colonization Railway (owned by Mr. J.R. Booth, the terminal end of the Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway): a meeting held on December 21, 1892 found citizens strongly in favour of giving Booth a bonus. Some twenty-five miles of the road had been completed west of Emsdale, where it crossed the North Bar branch of the Grand Trunk, and were in running order. A large number of men were in the woods cutting the next season's log supply for Georgian Bay mills (one firm alone with 400 men in camp); lumber from these logs was then shipped mainly by barge to the United States via Georgian Bay, Lake Erie and Tonawanda, but was expected to switch to the all-rail route via Ottawa and Albany once the Parry Sound road was completed. Four or five small villages had sprung up along the line, with several small sawmills under construction, and large quantities of bark, ties, pulpwood, cordwood and hardwood logs were being hauled for shipment. | Canada Lumberman 1893-01-01(Reporting a meeting held "on 21st inst.", i.e. Dec...) |
| 1892-7 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | 20 miles of track from Scotia Jcn to Bear lake in operation. Booth tours line in July. Rumours that CPR was buying PSCRy. | Bell pp.45-52 |
| 1893-01-02 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | On behalf of the Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway, as well as for himself, Mr. J.R. Booth wrote to return sincere thanks for the "right royal support" accorded to the railway bylaw the previous day. | Ottawa Journal 1893-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-01-18 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company's action to restrain the Atlantic and Northwestern Railway (under C.P.R. control) from building on a portion of its surveyed route came to trial before Mr. Justice Falconbridge. The O.A. & P.S. sought an injunction, arguing the A. & N.W.'s charter (Bay of Fundy to Lake Huron via French River) gave it no right to the disputed passes in Haggarty and Jones townships, Renfrew County, and that its own survey through those passes predated the A. & N.W.'s. Chief engineer Mountain gave lengthy technical evidence on the O.A. & P.S. survey, which had run continuously from Renfrew to Emsdale (with an 1890 exploration survey the first made through the county); engineer Holgate and C.P.R.'s Mr. Drinkwater also testified over the following days. The defence argued the matter belonged before the Railway Committee of the Privy Council rather than the courts. An attempt at an out-of-court settlement, suggested by the judge, had not succeeded as of January 20. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-01-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-01-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-01-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-02-01 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The relatives of Thomas F. Hurdman, who had been killed in a lumber car a few weeks earlier, were to enter suit for damages against the Canada Atlantic Railway Company in the sum of $10,000. | Canada Lumberman 1893-02-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-02-06 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The Canada Atlantic Railway ran its first train over the new short route from Ottawa to New York through the Adirondack Mountains, with quite a number of passengers aboard. A Wagner sleeping car, the "Athenia", which left New York at 7 p.m. Sunday, arrived attached to the 11.20 a.m. train into Elgin Street station the following morning; thereafter the 3.25 p.m. Canada Atlantic express from Ottawa was to carry a through Wagner car for New York via the Adirondacks, arriving at 7.45 a.m., with a dining car picked up at Coteau Junction serving dinner between 6 and 7.15 p.m.; the return car would leave New York at 7 p.m., arriving in Ottawa at 11.20 a.m., with breakfast served from 7.15 to 8.30 a.m. The full bill of fare was fixed at 75 cents. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-02-07("The Canada Atlantic Railway Company ran their fir...),Ottawa Journal 1893-02-07(Fuller description of the new Wagner-car service a...) |
| 1893-02-18 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A rumour circulated that Mr. Van Horne had offered to buy the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway from Mr. Booth; interviewed on the matter, Booth said there was not a word of truth in it. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-02-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-03-03 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The O.A. & P.S.-versus-Atlantic & Northwestern court dispute, argued in Ottawa the previous week, came before Mr. Justice Falconbridge again in Toronto to let the defendants close their case; after cross-examination of engineer Wm. T. Jennings, the defendants applied for a delay citing the illness of W.A. Ramsay, the C.P.R.'s chief construction engineer, in Montreal. It was reported the O.A. & P.S. had already spent $700,000 and was willing to spend more if the defendants did not interfere; the case was adjourned, likely to be heard next in Perth in April. Separately, the Toronto Board of Trade was opposing further Dominion funding for Booth's railway, arguing the $868,400 already given had effectively subsidized a line built mainly in its promoter's personal interest, to the detriment of Toronto and other Georgian Bay shipping ports. | Almonte Gazette 1893-03-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1893-03-10(Renfrew Mercury, on the Toronto Board of Trade opp...) |
| 1893-04-21 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Mr. Justice Falconbridge gave judgment for Mr. Booth in the "Haggarty pass" case, with the C.P.R. to pay all costs. The dispute was over a narrow (about sixty-foot-wide) defile through the Opeongo mountains in Renfrew County — the only feasible pass for many miles — which the O.A. & P.S. had surveyed and filed first, before the Atlantic and Northwestern (C.P.R.) surveyed and located its own line along the same route; the court found the two surveys interlocked too closely for both railways to pass through. Both companies were still racing toward the pass at the time of judgment: the C.P.R. already had trains running to Eganville, about thirty miles from the disputed ground, while the Parry Sound line had built as far as Arnprior and was starting construction from Arnprior to Renfrew, with clearing and grading from Renfrew to Eganville to begin shortly. | Ottawa Journal 1893-04-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-04-05(The final hearing on the same dispute (the narrow ...) |
| 1893-04-28 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | J.R. Booth, president and owner of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound railway, asked the Ontario government for a grant of $3,000 a mile to build the 105-mile section from Barry's Bay to Scotia (where the line would meet the Northern and Pacific Junction railway); the Empire judged the request unlikely to be granted. By this point 25 miles were built at the western end and 35 at the eastern end, both open for freight traffic, with about 60 more miles to be built west from Arnprior toward Barry's Bay that summer. The company intended to complete the line to Renfrew by mid-July and to Eganville by about September 1, then as far west as possible before winter. The surveyors' headquarters were at Douglas, where they would remain until the line was located as far as Eganville. | Mercury 1893-04-28(Renfrew Mercury, on Booth's request to the Ontario...),Ottawa Journal 1893-04-28(On the Douglas survey headquarters and constructio...),Mercury 1893-04-21(Renfrew Mercury, quoting the C.P. Herald's Arnprio...) |
| 1893-05 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Renfrew Railway Company | Line opened from Ottawa to Arnprior, 36 miles. Special train operated for officials. Bridge to be started soon. | Kennedy p171, quoting Ottawa Journal |
| 1893-05-03 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The engineers and construction gang of the Ottawa & Parry Sound railway company were removing the temporary wooden trestle on the portion of track crossing Preston street and putting in a permanent iron bridge. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-05-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-05-03≥ | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | By May 3, 1893, the contract for building the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway between Arnprior and Eganville had been awarded to Mr. Fauquier of Toronto. Fauquier said he would begin active operations the following week and push through with all speed; the section ran through comparatively level country and, except for six or seven miles, would be easy to construct. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-05-03(Contract awarded "yesterday". Transcribed by Colin...),Almonte Gazette 1893-05-12(Arnprior News. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in...) |
| 1893-05-08 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A steam shovel, built by the Marion Steam Shovel Co. of Marion, Ohio, was put in operation on the Ottawa & Parry Sound Railway at Carp, cutting a track through Mr. William Rivington's hill and loading sand and gravel onto a train of seven flat cars; described as "simply a dredge on wheels, carrying its own track and making its own road bed", it drew large crowds of townspeople to watch. | Almonte Gazette 1893-05-05(Carp News, the first morning of operation. Transcr...),Ottawa Journal 1893-05-08(Names the shovel's builder and the Barnhardt-owned...) |
| 1893-05-12 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Renfrew's Reeve, Jas. Craig, wrote to C.P.R. president W.C. Van Horne on April 27 proposing a union station at Renfrew with the Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Ry., saying the O.A. & P.S.'s chosen station site was central enough but a union would serve both roads. The C.P.R.'s vice-president, T.G. Shaughnessy, replied on May 8: "We know nothing about the railway to which you refer, and are not, therefore, prepared to discuss the question of terminal arrangements with them, for the present at least," adding that the C.P.R. had its own plans for improved station accommodation at Renfrew that season. Earlier, on May 5, Mr. Booth had told Renfrew's Mr. A.A. Wright he was willing to co-operate with the C.P.R. on a union station at Renfrew. | Mercury 1893-05-12(Renfrew Mercury, headed "A Humorous Document". Tra...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-05-05(Booth expects the road at Renfrew by Dominion Day ...) |
| 1893-05-18≥ | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | By May 18, 1893, the O.A. & P.S. railway had begun running passenger trains over its line: the train for Arnprior left the C.A.R. depot at 7 a.m. and returned at 6 p.m., the trip taking a little less than three hours, with faster times promised once the road was fully ballasted. | Ottawa Journal 1893-05-18(Trains began "on Monday" (May 15). Transcribed by ...) |
| 1893-05-19 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The sub-contractors for building the O. & P.S. westward from Arnprior were named: Wm. Heald for the eight miles from Arnprior, and Messrs. Golden & Secarton for the eight miles from Renfrew. Grading was to be done to Renfrew by July 15 and the iron laid by August 15. Mr. Heald had a large gang of men and teams at work on his section by May 29. On June 30 Mr. Jas. Contway of Renfrew was reported awarded the contract to fence 16 miles of the line between Renfrew and Eganville. | Mercury 1893-05-19(Renfrew Mercury. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher ...),Ottawa Journal 1893-05-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1893-06-30(Fence contract, Renfrew to Eganville. Transcribed ...) |
| 1893-05-26 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | There were renewed rumours that the C.P.R. had offered to sell its Atlantic & North-West branch from Renfrew to Eganville to Mr. J.R. Booth, for use as part of the Ottawa & Parry Sound railway; this was lent some colour by the further report that most of the men connected with the A. & N.W.'s engineers' office at Renfrew were about to leave, several having already gone. | Almonte Gazette 1893-05-26(Quoting the Renfrew Mercury. Transcribed by Colin ...) |
| 1893-05-27 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | Incorporated under Ontario Act 56 V Chap 96 | CNRHist |
| 1893-05-27 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | At the rear of the C.A.R. office at the Chaudiere, a novel portable building was under construction to serve as a boarding house for the men working on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway: its sides, ends and roof were made of eight sections that could be taken apart and reassembled with a few bolts, so it could be moved from place to place. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-05-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-06-05 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A dry stone wall was being built by the Parry Sound R.R. company at the embankment at the Preston street crossing: the high embankment had been filled with clay, which began to slide during the recent wet weather and made the road unsafe at that point, so the wall was to keep the clay in place. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-06-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-06-07 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Construction support for the Parry Sound line in Ottawa: on June 1 a number of Rochesterville men doing railway work at Carp reached it daily by special train; on June 3 over a dozen car loads of fine steel rails stood in the "C.P.R. Chaudiere yard" ready to go to the Parry Sound road; and on June 7 the big gravel plow used on the construction had to be brought down from Arnprior and placed in the Canada Atlantic workshops for repair. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-05-01(Rochesterville workmen and their daily special tra...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-06-03(Steel rails for the Parry Sound road. Transcribed ...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-06-07(Gravel plow repaired at the Canada Atlantic worksh...) |
| 1893-06-08 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The C.A.R. authorities were laying a new track in their yards to accommodate a number of cars while being unloaded; the yard was portioned off, so much room being given to coal and so much to lumber, and because of the immense quantity of coal coming in at the time the new siding would be kept for Russian coal. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-06-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-06-14 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway company purchased a gravel pit from Thos. Willis of Fitzroy for $2,000 (reported May 12). On June 14 it was rumoured that Mr. J.R. Booth had also purchased the large gravel pit and plant belonging to Mr. Rivington at Carp village. | Almonte Gazette 1893-05-12(Fitzroy gravel pit purchase. Transcribed by Colin ...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-06-14(Rumoured Carp gravel pit purchase. Transcribed by ...) |
| 1893-06-21 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Chief Engineer Mountain said the O.A. & P.S. would be completed to Eganville by September 1. (Mr. Booth had said on May 5 that he expected the road completed to Renfrew by Dominion Day and to Eganville by September, grading as far as possible before winter set in.) | Ottawa Journal 1893-06-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-06-23≥ | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | By June 23, 1893, the right of way for the O.A. & P.S. between Arnprior and Renfrew had been purchased from all the landowners except two. In Renfrew, surveyors were picketing the line on the north side of the creek through the village (the route mapped out in the Mercury two weeks earlier), right-of-way purchases through the village were in progress, and a house opposite Mr. A.A. Wright's residence had been rented as offices for the company's staff; the engineering staff expected to remain at Arnprior until August, working between there and Renfrew. On June 24 the company stationed an agent at Arnprior to look after its interests there. | Almonte Gazette 1893-06-23(Quoting the Renfrew Journal. Transcribed by Colin ...),Mercury 1893-05-12(Surveys and right-of-way purchase through Renfrew ...),Almonte Gazette 1893-05-19(Engineering staff expected at Arnprior until Augus...),Ottawa Journal 1893-06-24(Agent stationed at Arnprior. Transcribed by Colin ...) |
| 1893-07-10 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | Meeting attendance, W.B.McAllister, President, 10 shares; Thomas Hale, Vice President; J.G.Forgie, Secretary; Alexander Millar, Treasurer, 10 shares; F.E.Fortin, 10 shares; Wm Moffat; J.A.Thibodeau, 10 shares; Thomas Murray, 10 shares; Henry Jamieson, 2 shares | PSMinutes |
| 1893-07-12 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | It was said that Mr. J.R. Booth's various railway interests — the Canada Atlantic, the St. Lawrence and Adirondack, and the Ottawa and Parry Sound — would be amalgamated into a single system as soon as the work of construction was finished on the latter division, with the necessary legislation to effect the union to be secured in the meantime. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-07-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |