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 locations.
| Date | Subject | Statement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1889-09-21≥ | Chaudiere | The shipping of lumber from the Chaudiere Junction of the Canada Atlantic Railway is lively at present. During the past week close on to 5,000,000 feet were shipped. | Ottawa Free Press 1889-09-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1889-10-15 | Vars | After many changes the Canada Atlantic Railway company have appointed a permanent agent here in the person of Mr. T. Asselin. If they would now put in the long promised siding and level the station yard the public would be greatly benefited. | Ottawa Journal 1889-10-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1889-10-29 | Elgin Street | The city hackmen are said to have a grievance: there is too much light at the C.A.R. station, so that when passengers leave the train they fancy they are right in the city and, instead of taking a conveyance, walk to their destination. The hackmen do not therefore join in the cry of 'Light, more light.' | Ottawa Free Press 1889-10-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1889-11-16 | Vars | Vars, November 16 — a large gang of men are at work grading for the new siding here. Mr. A. Snyder is in charge of the work. | Ottawa Journal 1889-11-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1889-11-18 | South Indian | South Indian: Mr. Donovan, the genial station agent, has moved his family from Casselman and is now settled here for the winter. | Ottawa Journal 1889-11-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 189? | Scotia Junction | Northern and Pacific Junction Railway changes alignment from Burk's Falls to Scotia Junction. | Bell p157 |
| 1890-01-08 | Elgin Street | A special committee met to consider the petition of Stewarton residents complaining of a nuisance caused by continuous shunting on the Canada Atlantic Railway. General Manager Chamberlain showed the committee plans for a proposed entry to the city on the east side of the canal, submitted to the Government for approval, which would remove the necessity for shunting at Stewarton: the line would run along the east bank of the canal to the spot occupied by Dey's Rink, with no level crossing inside city limits, a retaining wall and continuous wharf, and trains passing under Theodore Street and over the diverted roadway at the Deep Cut. Two tracks would be built at first from Archville to the basin. Should other companies entering the city wish to join, the Canada Atlantic would help create a central station at Rideau Street near Sappers Bridge. Mr. Marcus Smith, for the petitioners, said the lumber trains had stopped for the winter and the nuisance was much reduced, but feared its return in summer, and wanted further assurance before withdrawing the petition. | Ottawa Citizen 1890-01-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1890-01-08(Also reports a 'CENTRAL UNION STATION' idea near S...) |
| 1890-01-27≥ | Saint Polycarpe | One of the most distressing accidents recorded in the long list of casualties to railway employees was that at St. Polycarpe on Saturday last, by which brakeman Larue of the Canada Atlantic Railway lost his life. An engine and car were making a flying shunt, and while attending the switch the unfortunate man was caught by the passing car and thrown beneath the wheels, his body so shockingly mangled as to be scarcely recognizable. St. Polycarpe is the point at which the Canadian Pacific short line crosses the track of the Canada Atlantic. Larue was a resident of Coteau village. | Ottawa Citizen 1890-01-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1890-01-27(Also reported the same date, per the Citizen's own...) |
| 1890-02-06 | Chaudiere | Messrs. Brewder & McNaught, contractors for the laying of the new steel pipe, got through the troublesome work of fixing the pipe in the aqueduct under the Canada Atlantic bridge today. After construction of the first pier they will put on another gang of men at work. | Ottawa Free Press 1890-02-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1890-04-16 | Chaudiere | The Chaudiere yards of the C.A.R. are rapidly growing busier, and the prospects show that a brisk season's trade will be done. For some time past there has been a great dearth of cars, but now the car famine has terminated and over one hundred cars a day are being loaded and despatched. | Ottawa Journal 1890-04-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Canada Lumberman 1890-05-01(Repeats: 'Now that the car famine has terminated, ...) |
| 1890-05-21 | Elgin Street | The Canada Atlantic Railway is having new sleepers put down on the line from the Elgin street station outwards for several miles. The sleepers are being conveyed here from Rockland. | Ottawa Free Press 1890-05-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1890-08-30≥ | Elgin Street | The Canada Atlantic railway put in a large platform scale at their depot, an automatic register — the first of its kind used in the Dominion. The weight of each car is ascertained and registered as the train passes over the scale platform without the cars being uncoupled, saving an immense amount of time. The apparatus, invented by a Chicago merchant, will be put into regular operation once sanctioned by the government. | Ottawa Free Press 1890-08-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1890-08-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1890-11-05 | Chaudiere | Brisk work at the Chaudiere: the supply of cars is far short of demand. The C.A.R. despatches about 400 cars each week for American points; neither is the C.P.R. able to supply a sufficient number for the demand. | Ottawa Journal 1890-11-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1890-12-13 | Maxville | The Maxville station of the Canada Atlantic railway is being considerably enlarged in order to meet the demands of the rapidly increasing business there. It is said the station agent will shortly have an assistant. | Ottawa Free Press 1890-12-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1891 | Casselman | Casselman lumber destroyed by fire, including 18 box cars, 11 million feet of lumber. | Casselman |
| 1891-02-03 | Elgin Street | Station Constable Joseph Lauzon, of the Canada Atlantic railway, who was formerly a member of the city police force, has resigned his position, and will probably be succeeded by Mr. John White, of the blacksmithing branch of the road. | Ottawa Free Press 1891-02-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1891-06-16 | Casselman | Fire at Casselman: a special train was sent out at 11 p.m. with the engine and a relief train driven by Engineer Macdonald, Fireman Kane and Brakeman Keswick, carrying 30 miles' worth of hose (1,200 feet plus 1,000 feet of C.A.R. hose). At Eastman's, South Indian and Bearbrook the train took up hands until there were 200 buckets and some 420 men on board; they left Bearbrook at 11.45 and steamed into Casselman at 11.50. | Ottawa Journal 1891-06-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1891-08-05≤ | Elgin Street | The train for the St. Andrews excursion to Clark's Island will leave the Queen Street crossing at 7.45 o'clock and the Elgin street station at 8 o'clock. | Ottawa Journal 1891-08-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1891-08-12 | Elgin Street | In the afternoon, a gang of men started a string of fifteen cars lying on a steep-graded siding running along the canal from the railway bridge to the new passenger bridge leading to Archville; being novices, they could not apply the brakes fast enough, and the cars struck the buttress buffer at about ten miles an hour, tearing the structure away. One car was thrown across the roadway of the bridge, blocking traffic; two others were badly smashed and the rest piled up. | Ottawa Free Press 1891-08-12(No entity exists for Archville; filed on Elgin Str...),Ottawa Citizen 1891-08-13(Calls it 'not the only streak of bad luck the comp...) |
| 1891-10-06 | Glen Robertson | A train was thrown off the track on the Canada Atlantic near Glen Robertson this morning, and two railway navvies were very seriously injured: an engine and some freight cars with tools and navvies left Glen Robertson, and had been going only a few minutes when the train was suddenly stopped by a tree across the track. The engine did not leave the track, but the cars carrying the navvies were thrown down an embankment; Dominique Duplino and Sept Turette each had their legs broken, and one was badly injured on the head. Both were sent to Montreal, arriving on the 11.20 train at Bonaventure Station, where the General Hospital ambulance carried the sufferers to hospital; doctors amputated one of Duplino's legs. | Montreal Daily Witness 1891-10-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1891-10-25 | Ottawa | The blacksmith's bellows in the C.A.R. shop at Ottawa filled with gas and exploded, throwing heavy irons across the shop; one piece struck Nelson Dio a heavy blow just above the right eye, cutting a gash three inches long in the scalp. | Almonte Gazette 1891-10-25(No more specific location entity than Ottawa is na...) |
| 1891-10-26 | Vankleek Hill | The contractor is busy building the station for the Central Counties Railway. | Ottawa Journal 1891-10-26(Location not stated in the source; filed on Vankle...) |
| 1891? | Valleyfield | William H. Taylor recalled the picnic excursions to Clark's Island, opposite Valleyfield, "back in the gay nineties": he "fired the engine which pulled the train of twenty-two coaches on the first of those jolly excursions about the year 1891". The engine was decked with flags and bunting, with crowds at every station; Herman Kirk was engineer, and Jimmy Dean, overseer of the company water service, canvassed merchants so that "there was never a lack of prizes". "Each and every one of those picnics was a decided success." | Ottawa Citizen 1937-07-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892 | Scotia Junction | Survey completed Ottawa to Scotia Junction | Bell p49 |
| 1892-04-02 | Vars | There was quite a stir at the Vars railway station recently, when Mr. R. A. Nelson and Mr. J. Armstrong of Bearbrook were loading a car of settlers' effects for Manitoba, where they were going to make their home in future. | Ottawa Journal 1892-04-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-04-08 | Carp | A delegation from Carp waited on Mr. J.R. Booth with subscription lists totalling nearly $5,000, offered as assistance if the line to Arnprior passed through Huntley Township and touched Carp. Booth explained that the road was first projected to run direct from Ottawa to Arnprior and on to Renfrew, but that the Pontiac and Pacific Junction road, as far as completed, was now on the market and its owners were pressing the company to buy it on favourable terms, so much so that engineers had been sent to run a trial line from Portage du Fort to Renfrew; Arnprior's apathy over its own contribution could injuriously affect where the line was located. Booth stated it was the company's intention to touch Galetta, and that a trial line would be run at once from Carp for that purpose. | Almonte Gazette 1892-04-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-05-18 | Hawkesbury | The heavy trestlework across the hollow has been completed and a track now runs right into the Lumber Company's yards. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-05-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-05-18 | Hawkesbury | The station grounds, which a little less than a year ago was little better than a swamp, had been converted at no inconsiderable outlay for grading and filling into as pretty a piece of railway property as one would wish to see. The yards were commodious and convenient, affording exceptionally good facilities for the handling and shipment of freight. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-05-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-06-03 | Eganville | Mr. James Reeves of Eganville received a letter from Mr. J.R. Booth explaining why the line could not be brought through the village of Eganville itself: Mountain's plans showed the town route would require a heavier grade than anywhere else on the line and a bad curve, adding about $24,000 to the cost, and Booth feared the railway would eventually be forced to adopt the lighter-grade route anyway. He hoped Eganville's people would help get the road started as soon as possible by providing right of way, and asked that the line come via Eganville, Renfrew and Arnprior, saying the municipalities' action on this would materially affect which route the company adopted. | Mercury 1892-06-03(Renfrew Mercury, quoting the Eganville Enterprise....) |
| 1892-06-30 | Bank Street | A collision occurred between a Canada Atlantic freight train and electric car No. 23 at the crossing: the train, going down to the Chaudiere, stopped at the crossing, and the cars reversed on the rebound. | Ottawa Journal 1892-06-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-07 | Scotia Junction | Booth tours line from Bear Lake to Scotia Junction | Bell p50 |
| 1892-07-06 | Ottawa | The C.A. Ry. made temporary repairs to the bridge over the railway at Bell Street, where several large holes in the planking had made it extremely dangerous to horses, and boarding missing between the flooring and handrails had made the bridge perilous to children. | Ottawa Journal 1892-07-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-07-28 | Rideau Junction | Shepherd and Morse completed one of their large sheds at their Rideau yard, for the storing of lumber; the other shed was to be completed shortly. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-07-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-11-01 | Elgin Street | A large number of people visited the Elgin Street depot to view the engine and car of the Vermont Central road, which had run in the night before to take home Col. Smith, president of that road, and his party, who had come up on the C.A.R. the previous day on a pleasure trip, their special train following them from St. Albans; they left at noon for home. The engine, never before seen in the area, had been turned out that spring from the Schenectady locomotive works and was capable of 70 miles an hour, commonly run at a mile a minute; it was named the St. Lawrence and had attached to it the Bellevue, Col. Smith's private car. | Ottawa Journal 1892-11-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-11-04≥ | Wilno | By November 4, 1892, considerable trouble was expected between the C.P.R. and the O. & P.S. railway companies near Adam Prince's, close to Wilno, where there was only one pass between two large mountains and both companies claimed the right to run their line through it. Mr. Mountain, chief engineer for the O. & P.S., had already purchased all the land in the vicinity, held the deeds, and posted notices forbidding trespass. | Mercury 1892-11-04(Renfrew Mercury, quoting the Eganville Star. Trans...) |
| 1892-12-30 | Rideau Junction | A sad accident occurred at Shepherd & Morse's lumber yard, Ottawa, on December 30, 1892: Thomas Hurdman, aged 21, son of Mr. George Hurdman, was instantly killed, and William Ascher, aged 16, was severely injured, when the shunting engine, through some mistake, struck a train of loaded box cars heavily while the two young men were checking lumber in a box car for shipment to the United States, throwing the piled lumber on them. | Canada Lumberman 1893-01-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893 | Canoe Lake | Park headquarters established on Potter Creek. | Shaw p6 |
| 1893 | Maxville | Recalled in 1939: early one spring morning in 1893, freight train No. 15 of the Canada Atlantic, with 35 cars and Harry Brown as engineer, was about two miles west of Maxville when a woman was seen "frantically shaking her skirt" on the track. The train stopped "only a few feet from a great gaping hole in the roadbed", where the dam of a lake on the hill above the track had broken and washed the roadbed away. The company presented the woman, who lived near Maxville and whose name was forgotten, with a life pass on all Canada Atlantic passenger trains. | Ottawa Citizen 1939-10-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-01 | Greenfield | Recalled in 1931: in a January 1893 blizzard the Canada Atlantic passenger train for Rouse's Point, with Phil Roy at the throttle of its one remaining engine, "struck its first real difficulty" at "Douglas Cut, between Greenfield and Alexandria", where the cut was full of drift and the train went through. "However, half a mile farther on came Buffalo cut, a deeper cut", and there Conductor Tom Lamplough stopped the train when it was found "the whole train was off the track and had been running on the ties since the time it left the last cut. The rails had spread." The baggageman was sent back toward Alexandria, "4 miles away", and the brakeman toward Greenfield, to flag; the crew used iron "dogs" to get the coaches and engine back on the rails by next morning. Short of water, Roy ran the engine into the drift at Buffalo Cut so that section men could shovel snow into the hot engine to melt. A snowplow that left Ottawa the same afternoon left the track at Maxville. | Ottawa Citizen 1931-01-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-03-17 | Carp | Messrs. Argue and Kidd were handling large quantities of wheat and oats at Carp since the Ottawa & Arnprior R.R. Co. had placed an agent there to look after freight; a temporary office was fitted up, with Mr. Robinson in charge. | Almonte Gazette 1893-03-17(Carp News. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Lo...) |
| 1893-04-13 | Graham Bay | The first accident on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound railway occurred about six miles from Ottawa, a short distance beyond where the line crosses the C.P.R.: the daily way freight to Arnprior was derailed when the roadbed washed out in a spring freshet. The engine crossed the damaged roadway safely, but five freight cars (three loaded, two empty) were thrown off and badly smashed; it took several hours to clear the wreck, though the regular train ran only slightly delayed the next morning. No one was injured. | Almonte Gazette 1893-04-14(Renfrew Mercury correspondent, near the C.P.R. cro...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-04-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-04-17(No trains except ballast cars ran over the line fo...) |
| 1893-04-28 | Renfrew | Arriving in Renfrew to inspect the routes located there by his surveying parties, Mr. Booth was asked by Mr. A.A. Wright, a local businessman keen on a union station, whether he would co-operate with the C.P.R. on the idea; Booth said he was willing to co-operate if the C.P.R. was, and agreed to meet Renfrew's civic authorities and C.P.R. representatives if the local council arranged it. Absent a union station, the probable route through the village was expected to run through the Agricultural Grounds, past Rouselle's windmill and Mrs. Freer's residence, down through the Sadler section and the lacrosse grounds, with the station and yard behind the British Hotel. Tenders for construction between Arnprior and Renfrew were to be opened that day, with awards expected within three or four days. | Mercury 1893-04-28(Renfrew Mercury. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher ...) |
| 1893-05 | Algonquin Park | Algonquin National Park Act passed by Ontario Government. | Shaw p6 |
| 1893-06-15 | Bank Street | Shunting engine No. 2 of the C.A.R., making a flying shunt, sent cars flying through the oil office of W.S.D. Morris, completely wrecking it, cutting a telegraph pole in two and smashing a swing gate on one side; only the iron standards supporting the swing bars across Bank street prevented oil from being spilled. No one was injured. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-06-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-06-20≥ | Ottawa East | By June 20, 1893, a train of freight cars, partly loaded with lumber, had dashed into the passenger swing bridge over the canal at Ottawa East; one car was badly wrecked and the bridge considerably damaged, after a barge hand attempting to take the train down the grade to the dock to load the lumber could not work the brakes right. Repairs to the Ottawa East ("Archville") bridge were commenced on June 22, the delay being due to the non-arrival of suitable timber. | Ottawa Journal 1893-06-20(Accident "yesterday". Transcribed by Colin J. Chur...),Ottawa Journal 1893-06-22(Repairs commenced. Transcribed by Colin J. Churche...) |
| 1893-07-01 | Scotia Junction | Line completed, Scotia Junction to Edgington | Bell p157 |
| 1893-07-07 | Carp | It was rumoured that the prolonged negotiation for the purchase of the Rivington gravel pit at Carp had been completed: the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company was now the owner, the price paid being between two and three thousand dollars. The gravel was to be used in ballasting between Ottawa and Carp, and the steam shovel was expected there the next day; the proposed line from Almonte was said to have been an important factor in the purchase, as it too would have required the hill. | Almonte Gazette 1893-07-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-07-14 | Douglas | The Ottawa Journal reported that the O.A. & P.S. Railway was not going to run into Douglas, because the grade on the proposed route was too expensive and the cuttings too heavy. | Ottawa Journal 1893-07-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-07-17 | Kinburn | Eight men working under Tomlinson to construct station. CA also grading yard and putting in sidings and switches. | Renfrew Mercury, 1893-07-17 |
| 1893-07-27 | Ottawa East | The C.A.R. authorities commenced work on July 4 on the Archville bridge, injured about two weeks earlier by a runaway train; by July 27 the bridge was being fixed up and given a coat of paint. | Ottawa Journal 1893-07-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-07-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-07-28 | Kinburn | Station nearly completed. | Renfrew Mercury, 1893-07-28 |
| 1893-08-05 | South Casselman | Three flat cars of a freight train derailed at Wood station between Casselman and Moose Creek. | Ottawa Journal 1893-08-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-08-25 | Elgin Street | An extra yard shunter was put on the C.A.R. Elgin street yards, making three shunters working, one of which was engaged all night. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-08-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-08-26 | Arnprior | An interlocking system and signal tower were being placed at the crossing of the O.A. & P.S. and the C.P.R. tracks at the western end of Arnprior: the tower was nearly finished by August 25-26 and was to be manned by two men, one appointed by the C.P.R. and the other by the O.A. & P.S. | Almonte Gazette 1893-08-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-08-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-08-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-08-26 | Elgin Street | Radical changes were being made at the C.A.R.'s Elgin Street depot: the big baggage room building was to be moved eastward and the siding past the freight shed carried down the north side of the station to the station house, solely for Parry Sound trains, since the single passenger track could no longer accommodate the trains once the Parry Sound road began running its morning train; two long platforms would extend on each side of this Parry Sound landing, and a siding on the north side of the long freight shed would be used for unloading freight. Mr. Donaldson said the change was a trial and the track could easily be torn up again. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-08-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-09-18≥ | Casselman | By September 18, 1893, a "G.T.R. [sic]" freight train had killed a cow at a road crossing near Casselman, on the preceding Tuesday. | Ottawa Journal 1893-09-18(The item says the cow was killed "on Tuesday". Tra...) |
| 1893-09-22 | Arnprior | The "diamond" crossing for the O.A. & P.S. over the C.P.R. at Arnprior was put in on Sunday, September 17, 1893. Before the O. & P.S. could run cars over it, 1,700 feet of rail had to be laid on the far side so trains could stand clear of the C.P.R. lines; the C.P.R. gave instructions to tear up the O. & P.S. track on its property until that was complete, which its men did while the O. & P.S. men were at dinner, and the O. & P.S. men promptly laid it down again; a rumour of near bloodshed between the workmen was played down as no more than this (the Arnprior News commented that "for all around 'hoggishness' the C.P.R. leads the van"). The crossing was reported completed on October 5, when rails began to be laid west of Arnprior. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-09-20(Diamond crossing put in on Sunday. Transcribed by ...),Almonte Gazette 1893-09-29(Repeating the Mercury, with the Arnprior News comm...),Mercury 1893-09-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-10-05(Diamond crossing now completed. Transcribed by Col...) |
| 1893-09-29 | Bank Street | To accommodate the increase in freights on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound railway since its opening, two long sidings, each over five hundred yards long, were constructed just west of Bank street, laid on either side of the main line, a great deal of filling being needed because of the elevation of the track there. On September 15 a long siding was also reported being built east of Bank street in the C.A.R. yard. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-09-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-15(Siding east of Bank street. Transcribed by Colin J...) |
| 1893-10-07 | Elgin Street | Improvements at the C.A.R.'s Elgin Street depot in autumn 1893: the new sidings and platforms were about completed by September 14 (the Parry Sound train to start from the new track the following week), the platforms had been repaired and extended toward Bank street and the new sidings for the Parry Sound railway were complete by September 18, and on October 7 the station house was undergoing repairs, with the verandahs painted and the general waiting room kalsomined. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-09-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-09-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-10-27 | Goshen | A siding was put in on the new railway at the town line crossing on the farm of Mr. Andrew McArthur, so farmers in that part of the country would not need to haul their peas up one of the worst hills between there and Belfast, Ireland. | Mercury 1893-10-27(Datelined Goshen. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher...) |
| 1893-11-22 | Carp | The officials of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway were endeavouring to make their road second to none: of late they had spared no pains in levelling off the grounds in the vicinity of the station at Carp and sinking drains taking water from culvert to culvert, work that reflected great credit on the company and had greatly assisted the improvement of the adjacent lands. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-11-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-12-07 | Bank Street | A derailment in the Bank Street yard put the C.A.R. official car and engine No. 2 off the track: the official car was smashed in at one end, and a yardman, Paul Brennan, dislocated a shoulder. | Ottawa Journal 1893-12-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894 | Killaloe | OA&PS Arrives. Town renamed Killaloe Station (Killaloe was 1.5 miles south). Over the next ten years, Killaloe Station became the supply point for as many as eleven lumber camps. | Kennedy p192, partly quoting Martin Garvey's History of Killaloe Station |
| 1894-01-05 | Alexandria | The Dreadful Grade Crossing. Several level crossing disasters are reported, one occurred at Alexandria, on the 5th, when the Ottawa eastbound morning express, while entering the station, struck the sleigh of Mr. Donald Cameron, of Lochiel. The accident occurred at the railway crossing, a little west of the station. Mr Cameron, his daughter Winfred, and a Miss Young, of Montreal, were in the sleigh at the time, and were on their way in to the village with grist for the Alexandria roller mills. Seemingly, they did not hear the whistle, and were opposite the Alexandria Manufacturing Company factory, situated on the north side of the track, when they first perceived the approaching train. Knowing he could not turn his horses and believing he had time to cross, Mr Cameron made the attempt, but had hardly reached the track when the engine struck them, leaving the horses unscratched on the south side, and hurling the sleigh and its occupants to the north side. The two ladies escaped with slight bruises, but Mr Cameron received several scalp wounds and the right thigh bone was broken. Surgical aid was called in, and Mr Cameron is reported as doing well. | Eastern Ontario Review 1894-01-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Almonte Gazette 1894-01-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-01-12 | Arnprior | ARNPRIOR NEWS. As soon as the mail car is put into service on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. we will get our Ottawa papers the evening they are published instead of next day, as we do now. Mr. P. Done, who has the contract of shipping about 400 car loads of lumber from Gillies Bros'. yards, Braeside, is drawing it here and shipping it over the O.A.& P.S. railway. | Almonte Gazette 1894-01-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-01-19 | Renfrew | "Fault is beginning to be found with the new railway already," remarked a merchant to The Mercury last week. "What is the complaint?" was the query. "Why, goods from Montreal are now delivered so quickly that we have to keep them lying around until the invoices arrive by mail." | Mercury 1894-01-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-01-19 | Galetta | While coupling cars at Galetta a brakesman named David Biggar had three fingers of his right hand crushed to a pulp. They had to be amputated. | Almonte Gazette 1894-01-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-01-19 | Eganville | Comment that goods from Montreal were now arriving by train before the invoices which came by mail. | Ottawa Journal 1894-01-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-01-24 | Kinburn | An official of the Parry Sound railway says that at various points along the route of the new road grain elevators are being erected. The one at Kinburn is now complete and several farther up the line will open a local trade within a short time. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-01-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-01-28 | Golden Lake | The O.A. & P.S. Ry., will this week commence the regular delivery of freight at Golden Lake. Passenger trains will not pass Eganville. | Mercury 1894-01-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-01-29 | Arnprior | It may not be generally known but it is a fact nevertheless that Gillies Bros., lumbermen of Braeside, find it sufficiently profitable to warrant their drawing lumber by sleigh to Arnprior and shipping it over the OA&PS tracks. Who says the latter company is not offering inducements? We are not surprised at the C.P.R. making so careful diagnosis of the situation by sending a representative up the line to investigate. According to the Renfrew Mercury, a travelling official of the C.P.R. visited that village recently in search of traffic. | Ottawa Journal 1894-01-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-03-21 | Carp | The workers of the steam shovel are beginning to talk gravel. They are billed for the 1st of April. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-03-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-03-23 | Wilno | Mr. J. O'Brien, contractor, has the Wilno pass cleared, and is commencing the rock cut in it, which is very heavy. The materials will be used in a long dump at the foot of the pass. This dump will, in some places, be forty-one feet high. | Mercury 1894-03-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-04-06 | Vars | COUPLED HIS LAST CAR. J. CROTEAU CRUSHED TO DEATH ON THE C.A.R. AT BEARBROOK. J. Croteau, a brakeman on the Canada Atlantic Ry., while coupling cars early this morning at Bearbrook, was fatally crushed and died of his injuries on reaching the city shortly after 8 o'clock. After the accident the injured man was promptly brought to the city where at the station doctor R.W. Bell was waiting. It was seen, however, that medical aid was of no avail and the victim had hardly made a statement to Dr. Bell when he passed away. The Remains were taken to his home at Archville and Coroner Mark notified. At the request of General Manager Chamberlain he decided to hold an inquest. | Ottawa Journal 1894-04-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1894-04-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-04-13 | South March | The O.A. & P.S. Railway Company has decided not to build a station between Carp and Ottawa. The people of March, who were pretty confident of having one built in their township, are somewhat disappointed. In consequence of this decision, the veteran mail carrier, Mr. Phillip Orchard, will continue his rounds as usual. | Mercury 1894-04-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-05-04 | Arnprior | The O.,A. & P.S. R'y. has made a settlement with Mr. O'Keefe. Mr. O'Keefe got $100 damages. | Almonte Gazette 1894-05-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-05-22 | Arnprior | The Canada Atlantic Railway company are leaving nothing undone to ensure ample accommodation and every convenience for all who intend patronizing the excursion of the 43rd battalion to Arnprior on the 24th. Yesterday the company were fortunate in securing a number of first class coaches for the occasion. | Ottawa Citizen 1894-05-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-05-25 | Arnprior | The O.A. & P.S. R.R. are pushing things along their road. Several horses and carts have been secured here lately for the construction. | Almonte Gazette 1894-05-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-05-28 | Golden Lake | The O.A. & P.S. railway have arranged to run freight through over their line to Golden Lake twice a week. Golden Lake is eight miles beyond Eganville the present terminus of the line. | Ottawa Journal 1894-05-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1894-05-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-05-29 | Arnprior | Eleven hundred and seventy people were carried into Arnprior on the Queen's birthday by the O.A. & P.S. Ry. Of this number 841 were from this city. | Ottawa Journal 1894-05-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-06-01 | Eganville | The Fitzroy Agricultural Society excursion to Ottawa on June 7 will start from Eganville on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. Rates are less than half the regular fare. | Almonte Gazette 1894-06-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-06-01 | Goshen | A petition has been in circulation here to have a flag station erected at the town line on the O.A. & P.S. Railway (Goshen). | Mercury 1894-06-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1894-06-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-06-01 | Caldwell | The O.A. & P.S. Ry. are building a flag station at the Scotch Bush road near Eganville. A siding is also being built at the same place. | Ottawa Journal 1894-06-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1894-06-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-06-08 | Carp | In addition to the train leaving at 9.45 a.m. tomorrow morning for the Dominion SS picnic at Carp, arrangements have been made for a special to leave at 2 p.m. also. The 9.45 train will stop at Richmond Road crossing. | Ottawa Journal 1894-06-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-06-15 | Caldwell | On Monday, last week, at the gravel pit at Caldwell's Corners a wreck took place on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. As a train of twenty loaded ballast cars were going east, 8 or 10 of the flatcars passed over the switch safe, one truck took the siding and the others kept the main line and the car became crosswise in the centre of the line. Several of the cars became so badly broken up that they were set on fire and burned. The wreck trains arrived on Tuesday and cleared the track. The gravel pit on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. near Eganville has been abandoned, it becoming almost a solid bed of stone after sinking a few feet. The steam shovel, men and boarding cars were removed on Thursday to Caldwell's Corners, where the company have procured a good gravel pit. This removal will seriously affect the boarding houses at the station here, one boarding house losing 40 boarders and the other one 30. The total number of men employed in connection with the work at the pit is 115. | Mercury 1894-06-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-06-22 | Glen Robertson | A fatal accident. Yesterday morning or Wednesday night Mr McDonald and his brother-in-law Mr. John Erwin, both of this place, left Alexandria to walk to Glen Robertson on the railway track. About midnight or a little before, Mr. McDonald feeling tired wanted to sit down and rest; his companion kept on for a while, until they were about 2 miles from the Glen when Mr. McDonald sat down on the track. Erwin kept on a little further, sat down on the bank, went to sleep, and on wakening at about four o'clock in the morning started back to find McDonald, but found his brother-in-law's mangled body lying on the track cut into three pieces. An inquest was held on the body at five o'clock in the afternoon and returned a verdict of accidental death. He leaves a wife and four children. | Eastern Ontario Review 1894-06-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-06-29 | Caldwell | Samuel Irwin, of Carleton Place, while working in the gravel pit at Caldwell's, on the O.A. & P.S. R. near Eganville Thursday last, fell between two gravel trains going in opposite directions and had his left hand so badly mutilated that it had to be amputated. | Almonte Gazette 1894-06-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-03 | Eganville | The pretty little town of Eganville was taken possession of yesterday by nearly 5,000 Ottawans who took in the excursion to that place conducted by St. Patrick's literary (or library) association. The excursion from Ottawa was run over the O.A. & P.S. | Ottawa Journal 1894-07-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-05≤ | Killaloe | In the course of a few weeks passenger trains on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. will be running to Killaloe, a point twenty miles beyond Eganville the present terminus of the line. | Ottawa Journal 1894-07-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Almonte Gazette 1894-08-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-12 | Killaloe | Work on the Ottawa and Parry Sound line has been completed as far as Killaloe, 92 miles from this city. Here bridges will delay the work a little but grading westward of this point is being pushed along. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-07-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-13 | Vars | Vars, July 13. - A fatal accident occurred on the C.A.R. near this place last night. An old man who was walking on the track was struck by the Montreal express and instantly killed. He was unknown here, but papers found on his body show his name to be John ?ton. | Eastern Ontario Review 1894-07-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-20 | Vankleek Hill | The station is getting to be quite a lovers walk in the evening. The boys and their sweethearts take a quiet stroll down and back the past few nights particularly to enjoy the bright moonlight. | Eastern Ontario Review 1894-07-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-20 | Wilno | Wanted: To work on the OA & PS Ry. at Wilno. 100 Good Men and 30 Good Teams. Also, Station Men, to work by the yard. Wages $1.25 and $3.00. Apply on the works to O'BRIEN & McDONALD. | Mercury 1894-07-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-20 | Renfrew | A special excursion rate - Renfrew to Portland, return - $9.95. Moncton - $12.05. | Mercury 1894-07-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-21 | Killaloe | The work of construction on the Parry Sound line has reached to within 2½ miles of the famous Haggarty's pass. Work is carried on, in some cases, by night and day gangs. The rails are laid as far as Killaloe, the trains crossing the bridge at that point yesterday. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-07-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-21 | Arnprior | The new steam shovel for work on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound was taken up to Arnprior in the regular morning train and commenced work at once in a new gravel pit which the road has recently purchased at a point west of Arnprior. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-07-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-21 | Barrys Bay | THE FATAL DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. Three men who met their death were 'loading a hole' with dynamite in a rock cut at the western outlet of the Hagarty Pass, near Barry's Bay, had placed three cartridges in position and were about to place a fourth when the explosion occurred. The three men were blown many feet high in the air. George Marsten, of Carlow (son of a man who formerly kept the Basin Depot house at Barnet & Mackay's depot at the Basin, near Renfrew), was killed outright, found about thirty feet from the point of explosion, one arm and one leg broken; he died in twenty-five minutes. William Kellar (also given as Louis Kellar), of Palmer Rapids, had his clothes completely torn off and one leg and one hand blown off; he died about three hours later, leaving a wife and four children. An unknown Englishman, recently out from the Old Country and in Canada about a couple of years, died four hours afterward. The bodies were horribly mangled. Foreman Raymond Dunning, within six feet of the charge, was blown by the concussion, by one account fully 150 feet up the side of a hill (Mr. M.J. O'Brien says only about 20 feet), but fell on a brush heap and was able to get up within a few minutes. Coffins were made during the night and the remains placed in them; Marsten's remains were taken by his sister and brother-in-law, Wm. George of Barry's Bay, to Eganville and interred in Melville cemetery, Rev. Mr. Rattray officiating. Kellar's remains were taken to his home at Palmer Rapids. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-08-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Almonte Gazette 1894-08-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1894-08-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1894-08-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-26 | Arnprior | The O.A. & P.S. Ry. are running two gravel trains between here and Arnprior and will have the grading on this section completed in a few days. | Ottawa Journal 1894-07-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-27 | Arnprior | ARNPRIOR NEWS. The O.A. & P.S. Ry. have two trains at work now between here and Ottawa filling up the trestle work and grading. | Almonte Gazette 1894-07-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-08-10 | Killaloe | A row occurred on the O.A. & P.S. at Killaloe on Saturday that will be remembered for some time to come by at least one party. Archie Stewart, a navvy working on the line, went into Mr. Grant's store and started to tear things up generally. He broke several articles when Grant ventured to protest. A fight ensued and Stewart bit Grant's ear clean off. | Brockville Recorder 1894-08-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |