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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1893-08-01 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | An excursion to Clark's Island required twenty-seven coaches, which had to be divided into two sections. | Ottawa Journal 1893-08-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-08-03 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Mr. G.A. Mountain, chief engineer, told the Ottawa Citizen and Journal that work was "up to contract time": grading between Arnprior and Renfrew was finished, with five girder steel bridges on stone piers (the principal ones across the Dochart and Lochel creeks) and one span of the Madawaska iron bridge complete and the other ready to go up; between Renfrew and Eganville about half the grading was done, and everything was expected finished to Eganville by mid-September. In the short time since work began, 300,000 yards of grading had been done, sixty-eight miles were covered by contracts completed or underway, and about eighty miles in all, including some west of Eganville, would be finished that season. On August 3 the contract for the first ten miles west of Eganville was awarded to Mr. Wm. Heald, with another ten-mile section likely to follow; regular trains were expected between Ottawa and Arnprior by September 1 and to Eganville a month later. Mr. Mountain added that there would be one station between Arnprior and Renfrew, at New Glasgow. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-08-03(Headed "All up to contract time"; repeated verbati...),Ottawa Journal 1893-08-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-08-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1893-07-24(Renfrew Mercury as quoted by the Journal: little m...) |
| 1893-08-03 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Mr. Mountain said there was very little doubt that the C.P.R. had abandoned any intention of building a line to Parry Sound: the last of the big staff the C.P.R. had employed for months was withdrawn from Renfrew that week, and the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent trying to forestall the O.A. & P.S. "has been as good as wasted", though he allowed there was no saying what use the C.P.R. might find for the work. A week earlier (July 27-28) it had been rumoured that the C.P.R. had abandoned its intention to build a parallel line through the district and withdrawn all its survey staff, leaving Booth free to proceed unmolested. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-07-27(The rumour, reported as said "last night". Transcr...),Almonte Gazette 1893-07-28(Reprinting the Ottawa Citizen rumour. Transcribed ...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-08-03(Mountain's statement. Transcribed by Colin J. Chur...) |
| 1893-08-12≥ | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | By August 12, 1893, many C.A.R. employees had gone to Moose Creek to attend the funeral of Rory Grant; the company furnished a special train. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-08-12("...went to Moose Creek yesterday..." Transcribed ...) |
| 1893-08-17 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Excursions on the new Ottawa–Galetta–Arnprior line: a Saturday excursion from Ottawa to Arnprior on July 22 was taken up by a number of Carp citizens; an advertised Civic Holiday excursion on Thursday, August 17 left the C.A.R. station at 7.30 a.m. (adults 75c, children 40c) for Galetta grove, where about 700 people picnicked and the O.A. & P.S. put on 13 cars, the train running slowly outbound to show the country, with the stations at Kinburn and Galetta nearly finished and the foundation in at March Corners; another report has 15 cars and about 600 people, with four car loads going on to Arnprior. A further excursion train the following Thursday (August 31) was to cross the new Madawaska bridge. | Almonte Gazette 1893-07-28(Carp News, on the July 22 excursion. Transcribed b...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-08-15(Advertisement for the Civic Holiday excursion. Tra...),Ottawa Journal 1893-08-18(700 people, 13 cars. Transcribed by Colin J. Churc...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-08-22(15 cars, about 600 people. Transcribed by Colin J....),Ottawa Citizen 1893-08-26(Next Thursday's excursion to cross the new bridge....) |
| 1893-08-18 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Mr. J.R. Booth and Chief Engineer Mountain visited Renfrew on Thursday, August 17, where Mr. A.A. Wright urged them to place the line alongside, and the station near, the C.P.R.'s to spare the town from being cut up by tracks. Booth said they had been over the ground and that following the C.P.R. would make the route longer and cost $30,000 more, so the creek route would be followed, with the creek bed "piled" instead of cutting through Rouselle's windmill and Mrs. Freer's residence; the Opeongo road would be crossed on James street, the track running through Mr. John Smith's vacant lot, the block with Mr. R. McEwen's new house and the south-west corner of the lacrosse grounds to cross the K. & P.R. at the Horton–Admaston town line. The station would be either on the Smith vacant lot facing Moffatt's factory or on the adjoining McEwen block; by August 22 the site was reported selected, one block south-west of Main street in the south end of town. | Mercury 1893-08-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-08-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-08-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Almonte Gazette 1893-08-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-08-22(The Renfrew station site selected the previous wee...) |
| 1893-08-22 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Continuing an earlier interview, Mr. Mountain said he had as yet received no instructions regarding the location of the proposed Central Station in Ottawa, nor any intimation of it, but felt confident the station would be erected in due time; once the work began it would be rushed through with as little delay as possible. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-08-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-08-26 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Stations and station grounds along the Ottawa–Arnprior line were under construction in the summer of 1893: at Kinburn the company was building a 40x20 ft station (July 14), the contractor for all the stations between Ottawa and Arnprior being Mr. Tomlinson of Ottawa, and by August 3 the stations at Kinburn and Galetta were nearing completion, the Carp station (to be built east of the village on the site of Rivington's hill) was about to begin, and grounds were located at Kinburn for a freight shed and granary; by August 18 the stations at Kinburn and Galetta were about finished and the foundation was in at March Corners. At Arnprior the town council gave part of Tierney street for the station grounds (otherwise the station would have gone to Mansfield); Mr. Mountain said on August 3 the station would be on Tierney street in the centre of town, Mr. Morley Donaldson bought brick and stone for it in the week of August 7, and construction began by August 26 at the end of Tierney street, a short distance south of the C.P.R.'s station. The company was also paying good prices for right of way in Arnprior, with a representative buying properties (July 14, 21). | Mercury 1893-07-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-08-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-08-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-07-28(Arnprior council granting part of Tierney street. ...),Almonte Gazette 1893-08-11(Mr. Donaldson buying brick and stone. Transcribed ...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-08-09(Booth and party arranging ground for the station s...),Ottawa Journal 1893-08-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1893-07-14(Chronicle: good prices paid for right of way in Ar...) |
| 1893-09-11 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | An application was made to the Ontario Government to cut out of the Algonquin National Park the two townships (or part of them) through which the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway was to run, where large timber limits, formerly Perley & Pattee's, lay partly within the park, owned by Messrs. Fowler, Hill and Whitney; a deputation of J.R. Booth (president of the railway company), W. Caldwell, M.P.P., J. Loughrin, M.P.P., Messrs. Hill and Whitney, with counsel J. Whitney, Q.C., M.P.P., met the cabinet (Messrs. Mowat, Hardy, Gibson and Bronson present) on the Thursday afternoon, when the application was argued and the decision reserved. The Pembroke Observer added that Dr. Dowling, the local member, would also press the government to allow the American company that had bought Perley & Pattee's Madawaska limits to build sawmills at White Fish Lake, just within the park limits. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-09-11(Quoting the Toronto Empire. Transcribed by Colin J...) |
| 1893-09-13 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | A committee (Messrs. F. McDougall, W.R. Stroud, J.M. Garland, Senator Clemow, H.K. Egan, J.W. McRae, Geo. Cox, Chas. Magee and A.D. Richard) was appointed to wait on the Minister of Railways and Canals to urge the government to grant J.R. Booth the right of way along the eastern bank of the canal to the Central Depot. | Ottawa Journal 1893-09-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-09-18 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Regular passenger service on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway between Ottawa and Arnprior opened on Monday, September 18, 1893, with two trains daily each way: trains left Ottawa at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. (reaching Arnprior at about 11.20 a.m. and 6.15 p.m.) and left Arnprior at 7 a.m. and 4.10 p.m., the distance of about 36 miles being covered in roughly an hour and a quarter; stations and distances from Ottawa were Carp 19 miles, Kinburn 27, Galetta 32 and Arnprior 37. The first time card, dated September 18, provided through parlour car service between Ottawa and Montreal and daily sleeping car service to New York and Boston, with all trains arriving and departing from the Canada Atlantic's Elgin Street depot, and the run connected with the C.A.R.'s through service to Montreal, Boston and New York. A first excursion from Arnprior to Ottawa ran on September 23 for the Fair, and the company applied for Ottawa's $50,000 grant. | Ottawa Journal 1893-09-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-20(Also gives the $75,000 rolling stock summary and t...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-09-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Almonte Gazette 1893-09-22(Arnprior News, and the application for Ottawa's gr...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-22(First time card of September 18, 1893. Transcribed...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-09-23(First excursion from Arnprior. Transcribed by Coli...) |
| 1893-09-20 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, which began regular passenger and freight service between Ottawa and Arnprior on Monday, September 18, 1893, had rolling stock valued at $75,000. | Ottawa Journal 1893-09-20(Article headed "$75,000 in rolling stock". Transcr...) |
| 1893-09-26 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Baldwin locomotives 20 and 21 were delivered with air brakes for the tenders. | Ottawa Journal, 1893-09-26. Thanks to David Jeanes |
| 1893-10-07 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The location of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway's station at Renfrew was definitely decided on Doyle street, alongside the lacrosse grounds, with the entrance on Elizabeth street; a special meeting of Renfrew council on Monday, October 2 agreed to close a portion of Doyle street at the company's petition, the site being recommended by Government Engineer Schreiber, and work on the foundation was to begin at once. By October 17 the building had a veranda all around it; work had begun on October 20 (the workmen first mistakenly starting on the rear of Mr. James Reid's lot); a large water tank and an aqueduct to the creek beyond the lacrosse grounds were being built beside it by November 16; the station was to be lighted by electricity, the track running through the fair grounds; and J.R. Booth paid Mr. O'Keefe $1,000 for property and $400 for damages for building the station. | Mercury 1893-10-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-10-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1893-10-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1893-10-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-11-16(Water tank and aqueduct, quoting the Renfrew Journ...),Mercury 1893-11-10(O'Keefe payment. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher ...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-02(Electric lighting of the station, quoting the Renf...) |
| 1893-10-09 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Chief engineer Mountain told the Ottawa Citizen that the route of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway had been finally located west of Golden Lake far enough for all of the next season's construction work, and that the stations west of Renfrew as far as the work would be completed that fall were Douglas, Eganville and Golden Lake; the station at Renfrew and one at New Glasgow, between Arnprior and Renfrew, were to be commenced that day. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-10-20 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | An electric dynamo was being placed on a special car at the Canada Atlantic railway workshops to furnish electric light to the workmen laying steel on the Parry Sound road above Arnprior, where the work was to be pushed forward night and day until Renfrew was reached; the electric plant was to be ready to start the following week at Willis' pit between Galetta and Arnprior, though on November 3 the dynamo car was still in the Stewarton yards and the electric lights had not yet been started. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-21(The electric plant to start at Willis' pit the nex...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-11-03(The dynamo car still in the Stewarton yards. Trans...) |
| 1893-10-21 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | A regular passenger train on the way from Montreal was credited with making the distance between Eastman's Springs and Ottawa, a distance of twelve miles, in nine minutes. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-10-21 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Construction-train mishaps on the O.A. & P.S. in October 1893: on Saturday, October 14 a construction engine with four cars ran over the dump some miles above Arnprior, the rails covered with blue clay so the drivers would not catch, and went over on her side, smashing the cab, though nobody was hurt (the Watchman's account credits the spongy roadbed giving way under the heavy train, the engineer having stayed aboard to stop the machinery); the engine was brought down to the Elgin Street depot and repaired by October 21; the first locomotive to reach Renfrew slid into a ditch halfway between Arnprior and Renfrew about October 20; and sixteen cattle in two herds were killed by two freight trains at Armstrong's trestle a few days before October 20. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-21(The Arnprior Watchman's account. Transcribed by Co...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-21(Engine repaired at the shops. Transcribed by Colin...),Ottawa Journal 1893-10-23(First locomotive to Renfrew slid into a ditch. Tra...),Almonte Gazette 1893-10-27(Arnprior News, also reporting a work-train engine ...),Almonte Gazette 1893-10-20(Cattle killed at Armstrong's trestle. Transcribed ...) |
| 1893-10-27 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Track laying on the O.A. & P.S. west of Arnprior progressed quickly through the autumn of 1893: rails began going down on the first ten-mile section on September 21, and by October 9 were laid three miles west of Arnprior with about 800 men on the road and grading expected complete to Golden Lake (84 miles from Ottawa) by November 15; by October 12 track was five miles beyond Arnprior, and an electric dynamo car was fitted at the C.A.R. shops to light night work as laying was pushed at about a mile and a half a day. The first locomotive reached Renfrew on Friday, October 20 (slipping into a ditch on the way), twenty men were reported to have laid 9,200 feet — a mile and three-quarters — of track in a day, and rails reached the agricultural show grounds on Thursday, October 26 (celebrated by a steady tooting of the whistle); a diamond crossing over the Kingston and Pembroke at Renfrew was then laid over four or five days. A passenger service to Renfrew was expected in two or three weeks, with Eganville the likely terminus for the winter. | Ottawa Journal 1893-09-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-10-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-20(Dynamo car at the C.A.R. workshops. Transcribed by...),Ottawa Journal 1893-10-23(First locomotive at Renfrew. Transcribed by Colin ...),Mercury 1893-10-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Kingston Daily British Whig 1893-10-24(The 9,200-foot day and the Kingston and Pembroke d...),Mercury 1893-10-27(Rails to the show grounds. Transcribed by Colin J....),Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-26(Mr. Ferguson, M.P., on the prospect of passenger t...) |
| 1893-11-05 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Two stations for the O.A. & P.S. Ry. went through Arnprior on a flat car on Sunday, November 5, 1893, all ready to be put together. | Almonte Gazette 1893-11-10(Arnprior News: "Sunday last (5/11)". Transcribed b...) |
| 1893-11-10 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | There was a rumour that the K. & P.R. and the O.A. & P.S.R. might amalgamate to the extent of the Kingston and Pembroke's trains running into the new O.A. & P.S. station at Renfrew; a switch had been put in at the diamond on the town line at Kings. Track laying continued through Renfrew, where by noon on Friday the gang was past the station and near the lacrosse grounds, and by Wednesday near the brick church in Admaston, with sidings put in in town and a switch at the K. & P.R. crossing. | Ottawa Journal 1893-11-10(Quoting the Renfrew Mercury; also in the Ottawa Ci...),Mercury 1893-11-10(Track laying through Renfrew. Transcribed by Colin...) |
| 1893-12-08 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Right-of-way dealings at Renfrew and Admaston in autumn 1893: on October 2 Mr. Booth agreed to pay the South Renfrew Agricultural Society $750 for the right of way through its fair grounds (leaving it the ground between the track and the creek), the railway making a cutting five feet deep through them; on October 10 the company settled with Mr. Jas. O'Connor and tore up part of the Main street bridge, and all rights through town were settled by then except with Mr. John Smith (tanner). Smith resisted the company's order to enter his premises before arbitration; arbitrators Cunningham, James Reeves and George Eady met on November 15, and Smith was awarded $3,700 (plus a crossing), $800 more than the railway offered — Smith wrote the Mercury on December 1 that he still thought he ought to have received more (he valued the damage at $12,000). In Admaston, Mr. Donald Campbell fenced the track when the company had not settled with him; railway men tore it down, and on legal advice they forced their way through and laid the rails. On Smith's property the grading, tie-laying, rail-laying, train running and ballasting were reported done in a single day. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-10-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1893-10-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-28(Smith staying the order; quoting the Renfrew Mercu...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-11-15(Arbitrators named. Transcribed by Colin J. Churche...),Almonte Gazette 1893-12-01(Award of $3,700. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher ...),Mercury 1893-12-08(Letter from Mr. Smith to the editor. Transcribed b...),Mercury 1893-11-10(Admaston fence dispute; the one-day railroading on...) |
| 1893-12-18 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway opened regular passenger and freight service between Ottawa and Eganville, a distance of 74 miles, on Monday, December 18, 1893, with two passenger trains daily. The first train from Eganville (two passenger cars) arrived at Renfrew on time in bitter cold — about ten degrees below zero, with heavy snow cleared from the platform, so few people saw it, the only recorded Renfrew passenger being Mr. J.A. Ferguson of Arnprior — after a snow plough had gone up the line on Sunday; the Journal noted the train brought a number of prominent people from along the line, particularly from Eganville, Douglas and Renfrew. A private inspection of the line between Arnprior and Renfrew was to have been held on December 12, with government inspection of the road to Eganville to follow within a week. The passenger trains were well patronized and officials expected general freight to continue all winter; the first freight to Eganville was a carload of oil for the Samuel Rogers Oil Company, and the first shipments from Eganville to Ottawa were carloads of cattle, lambs and sheep collected by Mr. S. Howard for the butchers Slattery & Terrance. | Ottawa Journal 1893-12-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-12-18(Also an O.A. & P.S. timetable advertisement of the...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-12-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-12-19(First freight to and from Eganville. Transcribed b...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-12-18(First carload of cattle and lambs shipped from Ega...),Mercury 1893-12-22(Account of the first train, dated December 18. Tra...) |
| 1893-12-22 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Construction contracts west of Renfrew in autumn 1893: the contract for the line through Renfrew village was sub-let to McCarthy Bros., who said in September their part of the track would reach Eganville by November; seven tenders were received in early September for the ten miles from Indian Point, Golden Lake to Killaloe; Mr. Heald had 280 men on the ten miles between Eganville and Golden Lake by November 3 and, having completed that contract, was awarded the next ten miles west of Golden Lake to Killaloe (Dec 22), with right of way to be cut out and work carried on all winter; the eight miles east of Eganville graded by Fauquier Bros. were completed and the men discharged by late October, and another ten-mile grading contract was let in mid-December; over twenty Italians from New York passed through Ottawa on September 25 bound for Eganville construction work, and by December 15 the cessation of work had sent many navvies into Ottawa. | Ottawa Journal 1893-09-18(Renfrew village contract sub-let to McCarthy Bros....),Ottawa Citizen 1893-09-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-08(Tenders for Indian Point to Killaloe. Transcribed ...),Ottawa Journal 1893-11-03(Heald's 280 men; quoting the Renfrew Mercury. Tran...),Ottawa Journal 1893-11-02(Fauquier Bros. finished east of Eganville; quoting...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-26(Italians bound for Eganville. Transcribed by Colin...),Mercury 1893-12-22(Heald awarded ten miles west of Golden Lake. Trans...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-12-15(Navvies in Ottawa. Transcribed by Colin J. Churche...) |
| 1893-12-28 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Beyond Renfrew, track laying on the O.A. & P.S. continued through the winter of 1893: the gravel trains were expected at Renfrew on November 3, some 200 flat cars and eight engines were then serving the ballast trains between Willis' pit near Galetta and the end of track, and rails reached the crossing of the Scotch Bush road at Caldwell's Corners on Saturday, November 18 and Eganville (reported December 1 as having been reached "on Friday"), with ballasting following. The track ran on to Golden Lake and, when track laying finished for the year on December 27, to Indian Point, nine or ten miles beyond Eganville, the end of the grading and the terminus for the winter, where a temporary roundhouse was being built; two engines were still laying ties and steel near Indian Pond as of December 21, and in December the ground frost slowed the work. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-11-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-11-21(Also reports that a station house at Douglas would...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-11-24(Caldwell's Corners, quoting the Eganville Enterpri...),Mercury 1893-12-01(Quoting the Enterprise: rails reached Eganville "o...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-12-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-12-28(Also in the Renfrew Mercury of January 5, 1894. Tr...) |
| 1893-5-9 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Shovel working at Rivington's Pit, Carp. | Correspondence with Colin Churcher |
| 1893-8-9 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Shovel working at Willis's Pit, Galetta. | Correspondence with Colin Churcher |
| 1893-8-9 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Two ballast trains were kept busy at Eastman's Springs hauling earth to Rideau Yard. | Correspondence with Colin Churcher |
| 1894 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Line opened Renfrew to Golden Lake, 28.25 miles | CNRHist |
| 1894 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Renfrew Railway Company | Line opened from Ottawa to Renfrew, 55.5 miles | CNRHist |
| 1894 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | Emsdale (1.82 miles north of Scotia) was listed in a July 2, 1894 GTR time table as a "Union Station" with the Parry Sound Colonization Railway. While the PSCR joined the GTR at what would become Scotia it used the "established community" of Emsdale as its terminus. There was a south to west wye connection to facilitate this operation. | Correspondence with Jeffrey P. Smith |
| 1894 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | Line opened Scotia to Eglington, 30 miles | CNRHist |
| 1894-02-06 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | J.L.Morris prepared survey from Renfrew to Pembroke. Detailed surveys at Forresters Falls, Portage du Fort and REnfrew where difficulties may arise. | PSMinutes |
| 1894-02-09 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | At a meeting of the railway committee of the Privy Council this morning... The next application was from the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound railway for the extension of time for completing the two bridges across the Canadian Pacific near Ottawa. One of these bridges is to cross the St. Lawrence and Ottawa road near Rochesterville and the other is in the township of Nepean, some six or seven miles from the city near Bell's Corners, to cross the C.P.R. Mr. Christie appeared for the railway and said that owing to the frost coming on before the bridges were built the work in both cases was stopped. He asked that the time for completion be extended to June next; the piers were completed but the material for the superstructure had only been purchased, not yet on the ground. The Canadian Pacific had no objection, and the application was granted. | Ottawa Journal 1894-02-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-02-19 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | Asked subsidies of Twnshp of Westmeath, $30,000, Twnshp Ross, $5000, Portage du Fort, $5000, Twnshp of Storon, the right of way. Two weeks given. | PSMinutes |
| 1894-02-23 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Fighting for the Pass. The appeal case of the C.P.R. against the judgment giving the Opeongo Pass to the Parry Sound railway is now being heard in Toronto before the Chancery divisional court. The courts gave the exclusive right of the pass to the Parry Sound railway company, and the C.P.R. are trying to upset the judgment. The pass in contest is a narrow gap between the mountains in the township of Algoma, county of Renfrew, and is only capable of giving a passage to one line of railway track. | Almonte Gazette 1894-02-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-03-01 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | J.L.Morris makes survey report to board. McAllister to lead deputation to Minister of Railways. | PSMinutes |
| 1894-03-01 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The work of preparing for next summer's operations on the construction of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway is going on around the Elgin street depot. Several of the engines which will be employed on the construction have already been rebuilt. No. 6 has lately come out of the shops after a complete overhauling. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-03-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-03-15 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Arrangements for the coming season's work on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway are being pushed ahead. The two steam shovels which did such effective work last year will begin to operate next week; one which has been at the Carp this winter will operate in the large gravel pit near that place, the other, now in the Elgin street yards, will probably be located at the newer pit in the neighborhood of Eganville. Until the snowfall disappears several of the trestle works will be filled up and the roadbed further strengthened. For about one week past men have been employed filling up a trestle work on this side of Eganville where the track crosses Moore's Creek. At least two hundred flatcars will go up the line as soon as the shovels commence work. MORE NEW ENGINES: it is said that the company has ordered three new locomotives from Philadelphia to be used on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, freight engines slightly smaller than the Canada Atlantic mogul No. 100, expected early in May. As soon as the yards are cleared of snow a number of the hands now employed in the mechanical shops in this city will start the erection of a large number of new flat cars to be used on the Parry Sound Railway; about one hundred cars are expected to be built this spring. INCREASING THE SHOPS: the present mechanical shops have been found rather small for the amount of repairs for both the C.A.R. and Parry Sound lines, and the company will erect a larger and more suitable structure in another part of the yards; the present mechanical shops will be used as painting shops. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-03-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-03-19 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | Fortin and Jamieson to go to Toronto to meet with Ry Committee to try to get a bonus. | PSMinutes |
| 1894-03-26 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Including the 35 miles of road the contract for which was given out Saturday to E.F. Fauquier, the O.A. & P.S. will construct 77 miles of road this summer. Besides the 35 miles contract given to Mr. Fauquier today, twenty miles have been given to Wm. Heald; twelve miles to J. O'Brien, through the Haggarty Pass, and ten miles to Poelan and Fitzpatrick at the furthest end of the proposed line extending towards the terminus of the old colonization railway. This will leave about seventy miles of the road left to be completed next year. | Ottawa Journal 1894-03-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-03-26 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The construction of a large number of new cars for the Parry Sound railway has started in the mechanical shops of the Elgin street depot. The work will likely be continued for a large part of the summer as many cars will be required to keep up with the increased trade over the line. One of the two steam shovels owned by the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway went up the line yesterday morning to commence work in the gravel pit at Eganville. Until the frost has disappeared from the ground the gravel will only be used to fill up spots that were not completed last year. Two gravel trains are expected to go up the line tomorrow. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-03-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-04-23 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Almost every day men are leaving by the morning train to secure employment on the construction of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway. This morning there was a large gang of Italians going up to work on one of the contracts above Golden Lake. So far there has been no steel laid this year, but it is expected that men will shortly commence on the department of the construction. The steam shovel is now working at Eganville and a large part of the ballast is taken to fill up the trestle work at Arnprior. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-04-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1894-04-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-05-01 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | QUEEN'S PARK: A cash subsidy is granted of $3,000 per mile to OA & PS contractor Fauquier, to build thirty-five miles west of Barry's Bay, conditional on regulations for the protection from fire of timber. The Toronto Board of Trade opposed this grant on the ground that it was practically a private line and as such, not entitled to a subsidy. A government official had expressed concern about the railway's locomotives causing forest fire damage to the pine. Booth's officials reported that the line as surveyed followed the swamps and lowlands, and that very little pine is passed through, for where it is not swamp, and along the lake shores it is through hardwood; there is therefore no danger to be apprehended from fire. | Mercury 1894-05-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-06-22 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | C.A.R. EMPLOYEES. Their Annual Picnic Yesterday the Usual Success. The annual picnic of the C.A.R. employees at Clarke's Island yesterday proved the usual success in every way. There was a large attendance and all enjoyed themselves well. The picnic was attended by fully two thousand people, some 1,200 being from the city. They left the C.A.R. station at 7.20 a.m. in twenty fine cars provided by the efficient managing committee. The popular picnic ground, where the refreshing breezes from the St. Lawrence can be obtained, was reached about 10.30, and there during the day there was music by the G.G.F.G. band and dancing in the excellent pavilion, while a choice program of sports was carried out. At 6 o'clock the train was boarded for the home trip, and at 9.45 the city was reached. | Ottawa Citizen 1894-06-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1894-06-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-06-27 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Mr. John Fowler (brother of the Governor of New York State) President of the Kingston and Pembroke Railway, Mr. Henry Sabert, a director of the road, Mr. R.W. Folger, general manager and other officials arrived yesterday on the company's private car after a trip over the O., A.& P.S. Railway as far as constructed. They leave this morning by C.A.R. for Montreal. | Ottawa Citizen 1894-06-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-08 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Plenty of whiskey peddlers on the OA & PS, and doing a good business too. There are 1,100 men working on the project now. | Mercury 1894-07-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-18 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Mr. A.W. Fleck states that the report that Mr. Booth would build the Parry Sound Railway car shops on Sherwood street is incorrect. Mr. Booth has made no decision yet as to the place where they will be erected or the time of their erection. | Ottawa Journal 1894-07-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-20 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | The Parry Sound Colonization railroad received a grant for $64,000 for twenty miles. | Mercury 1894-07-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-08 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Rumours of diphtheria outbreaks in the area, and no wonder, says the local doctor: some very small houses are accommodating twelve to eighteen men. When one gets up, another tumbles into his warm bed. Some men have died of diphtheria. | Eganville Leader 1894-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-10-01 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | O.A. & P.S. timetable advertisement: train service open between Eganville, Golden Lake, Killaloe and Barry's Bay. | Ottawa Journal 1894-10-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-10-09 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A number of the C.A.R. officials and several Ottawa citizens of prominence took a run over the Parry Sound railway as far as Barry's Bay yesterday. His Worship Mayor Cox was among the number, and this morning spoke in great praise of the way in which the line has been built. He declares it to be as fine a piece of railroad as he has seen, nothing having been slighted in the least. At the far end of the line there is an inexhaustible supply of gravel of excellent quality which provides splendid ballasting material. He was delighted with the beauties of Golden Lake and speaks of it as the ideal of a sportsmen's hunting ground. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-10-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-10-12 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | From a communication in another column it appears that our hopes of a railway this fall are doomed to disappointment. Neither the C.P.R. nor the C.A.R. seem inclined to take hold of it just now, whatever the reason. The fact remains, though, that we want a road that will give us direct communication East and West. | Eastern Ontario Review 1894-10-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-10-16 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | At the Chancery Divisional court yesterday, the second round of the long fought contest between the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway company and the Atlantic and Northwest Railway company, resulted in a victory for the latter with costs. The former will, however, shortly enter a further appeal to restore the now dissolved injunction, which, until now, has prevented the latter company from laying their line in a certain way in Carleton county. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-10-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-11-12 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | To Inspect the O.,A. & P.S. railway. A special train left the CAR depot this morning having on board E J Chamberlin, general manager; and G A Mountain, chief engineer of the O.,A. & P.S. Ry; Mr. Lynch, government inspector; city engineer; C J Booth and C P. Cunningham for the purpose of inspecting the last twenty-five miles of the O A & PS Line west of Barry's Bay. The party return this evening. | Ottawa Journal 1894-11-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1894-11-19 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | E.J. Chamberlain, general manager of the O.A. & P.S. Ry. returned last evening from a trip up the line. He states that the rails will be laid today to a distance of five miles from Long Lake and trains will be running to that point, which is 144 miles distant from Ottawa, some time next week. The construction will stop at this point for the winter although the rock work will be continued throughout the winter. | Ottawa Journal 1894-11-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1894-11-30 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A man named Mahoney, brakeman on the O. A. & P.S. Railway, lost one of his hands while coupling cars last week. | Almonte Gazette 1894-11-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1894-12-05 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Several thousand long boom logs have been taken out of the Ottawa river since the mills closed down, and at the present time these are being stacked along the entire length of Mr. J.R. Booth's long mill platform. It is said that the logs will be made into very heavy dimension timber during this present winter season, and will be used in the construction of the new workshops of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway on Concession street, and this fact forms additional evidence that the shops will be put up at the earliest possible date. The cutting will be done in a new circular sawmill built during the present summer at the Chaudiere Falls. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-12-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Line opened Golden Lake to Whitney, 60 miles | CNRHist |
| 1895 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | Line opened Eglington to Rankins, 10 miles | CNRHist |
| 1895-02-23 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Half a million dollars is to be expended on the construction of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound railway this coming summer. The work of construction is about to be resumed; contractors have already gone out to select camp sites. Contracts have been awarded for three more ten mile sections and a fourth is to be let out: E. Fauquier will construct the first ten miles west of the present terminus at Long Lake, O'Neil and Ferguson the next ten miles west of Fauquier's, and Poulin and Fitzpatrick the ten miles eastward from the terminus of the Parry Sound and Colonization Railway, forty or fifty miles east of Parry Sound. The contractors will begin bare rock cuttings immediately, and start pile driving where necessary on 1 March. About the beginning of May a force of fifteen hundred men will be put on the general construction work; the part of the line being built passes through very mountainous, the heaviest part of the line. About 40 miles will remain to be constructed in '96 if the four sections are finished this season, the gap being this side of Elmsdale. | Ottawa Journal 1895-02-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Almonte Gazette 1895-03-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-03-18 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Booth, Chamberlain and Mountain returned from looking for a site for the terminal at Parry Sound. The work on the eastern end is going on rapidly; over twelve hundred feet of pile driving has been done on the Mud Creek trestle on Long Lake, expected to be finished in about four days, after which rock cutting will begin. | Ottawa Journal 1895-03-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-03-22 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | On Friday night two engines passed Eganville on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. loaded with dynamite for the construction west of Long Lake. Each engine drew two cars, each car containing ten tons of dynamite; to make the conveyance of the dangerous material as safe as possible, the trains were four hours apart, one passing at twelve o'clock midnight and one at three o'clock Saturday morning, both arriving at Whitney on Saturday morning. The train left Ottawa late at night and travelled slowly, so as to minimize unexpected stops. | Ottawa Journal 1895-03-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Mercury 1895-03-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-03-29 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The OA & P S Ry. Company ought to put on another passenger car on their train between Eganville and Whitney. There are at present only two passenger cars on this train, and in both going and returning they are very often uncomfortably crowded, so much so that sometimes passengers cannot get a seat and have to stand. | Mercury 1895-03-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-04-12 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The passenger traffic of the OA & PS is now almost as large as the CAR between Ottawa and Montreal. Both lines are doing a good business, but travel on the OA & PS is increasing every day, and becoming a rival to the older line. Residents from as far as fifty miles distant come to make their large purchases. | Ottawa Journal 1895-04-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Mercury 1895-04-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-04-12 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | Ontario Legislature. April 9th. - a strong deputation from Pembroke waited on the government today and asked for a bonus for a railway from Pembroke to Douglas - a distance of 25 miles. The deputation claimed that the proposed line would open up a fine tract of country and come into competition with no other road. | Almonte Gazette 1895-04-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-04-19 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | Thomas MacKiee (representative of board of trade) accompanied group to Toronto. Seal to be purchased. To apply to ammend act of incorporation to run to Golden Lake to connect with OA&PS, ads to run in Ontario Gazette and Local Newspaper. Looking for bonus from federal government. | PSMinutes |
| 1895-04-30 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The new steam shovel for the Parry Sound Railway has now been sent up to work at "The Forks" and one hundred men have been given employment in addition to those already at work. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-04-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-05-08 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | There is a rumor abroad today which appears to be well founded that negotiations are pending between the principals of the Parry Sound Railway, and the Ottawa East council for the erection of the workshops in that village. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-05-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-05-16 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The railway committee passed the bill this morning to extend the time for completion of the O.A. & P.S. Ry. by five years. [Separately reported:] Petition from South Renfrew over the closing of a station owing to some difficulty with local landowners. | Ottawa Journal 1895-05-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-05-17 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A daily train is now running between Eganville and Whitney. | Almonte Gazette 1895-05-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-06-14 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The Dominion Bridge company have had a writ issued against Mr. J. O'Brien of Renfrew, a contractor on the O.A. & P.S. Railway, for $1,375, the price of a turntable supplied the contractor on the construction work on the line. | Ottawa Journal 1895-06-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-06-22 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A daily train will likely be put on the O.A. & P.S. Railway west of Eganville next week. | Ottawa Journal 1895-06-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-06-24 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Perhaps the largest excursion that has ever been run over any railway line in eastern Ontario was that of the employees of the Canada Atlantic to Golden Lake on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. this morning. The excursion was from all points on the C.A.R. from Coteau to Ottawa and along the line of the O.A. & P.S. Ry. from all stations west of Ottawa. Three solid excursion trains of ten coaches each, thirty coaches in all, carried 1,500 excursionists from the city alone; another excursion train from down the C.A.R. carried five hundred more, and up to 700 more were expected from points along the O.A. & P.S. Ry., making in all an excursion of 2,700 people. The first excursion train left Ottawa at 7 a.m., the second at 7.30, the third at 8.05; the train from down the C.A.R. passed at 8 o'clock. The excursionists arrived at Golden Lake around 11 o'clock. Nearly all the employees of the railway were granted a holiday. Two carloads of boats were attached to the first excursion train at Renfrew for the use of the excursionists at their destination. | Ottawa Journal 1895-06-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-06-24 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The work on the construction of the O.A. & P.S. Ry. goes merrily along. Messrs. D.R. McDonald and McMartin are pushing the work on the first ten miles above Whitney; nearly all the rock cutting is done and grading is going on rapidly, the roadbed reflecting great credit on the contractors. The contract for the third ten miles has not been given out, as the government has not granted a bonus for construction further than three miles above White Fish Lake. Messrs. Breuder and McNaughton have two miles of the trestle work on the first ten miles above Whitney completed; at Mud creek the pile driving is completed, and at Breeder's Bay pile driving is going on so satisfactorily that in a few days both ends of the construction across the bay will be connected. Messrs. O'Neil and Ferguson, contractors for the second ten miles, have very little rock cutting left to do, to be completed in a few weeks; grading and levelling is going on rapidly, with large numbers of Italians on the right of way — six weeks ago a swampy forest, now a well constructed railroad bed. | Ottawa Journal 1895-06-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-07-02 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The Ottawa East council last evening passed a motion for the preparing of a by-law to exempt the O.A. & P.S. Ry. from taxation for ten years on the condition that the workshops are built adjoining the village. | Ottawa Journal 1895-07-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-07-08 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A grand excursion of the railway employees came to Golden Lake last Monday, where a crowd of several thousands assembled for a picnic. By the new time-table there are two daily trains from Ottawa to Barry's Bay, and from Barry's Bay to Whitney every day, and a passenger going up Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and returning Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; the train service is thus much improved. | Almonte Gazette 1895-07-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-07-11 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | James and Alex. Avery, employed on the O.A. & P.S. railway, were injured by the premature explosion of a charge of dynamite while blasting on Thursday last; their faces and eyes were covered with sand and small stones. They will recover. | Almonte Gazette 1895-07-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-07-14 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Fired at Three Times. As Daniel Galligan, construction foreman for Mr. McDonald at the Parry Sound, was walking on the right of way between Maguire's camp and Camp No. 4 on Sunday of last week, a man walked out of the bush close to him and deliberately fired three shots: the first split the handle of the axe he was carrying, the second pierced a hole through the leg of his trousers, and the third missed him. | Almonte Gazette 1895-07-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-07-15 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Heroics for Lawbreakers. Mr. Josh Conolly, license inspector, has an exciting time up along the line of the O.A. & P.S. Ry. watching and punishing violators of the License Act; he had three cases at Whitney to be heard that week. His plan is to take the magistrate and constable up the string of lakes by land and water until they locate a whiskey camp, then seize the lawbreakers and hold court on the nearest smooth rock. At Whitney he noticed a barrel marked 'vinegar' at the station and resolved to get a search warrant, but the barrel disappeared overnight; he was told the 'vinegar' was highwines. | Ottawa Journal 1895-07-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-07-23≤ | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The Hubbell Primary Battery Company have already begun manufacturing their batteries. The company expect by the 15th of August to have a passenger coach on the C.A.R. and C.P.R. lighted by their battery, and if this test proves successful several other coaches will be similarly lighted on the same lines. | Ottawa Journal 1895-07-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-07-27 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | DYNAMITE ACCIDENT: An accident took place on Saturday afternoon at Camp No. 4 on the OA & PS construction, about seven miles west of Whitney, by which one man was killed and two others were very seriously injured. The men were engaged in blasting rock and some of the drilled holes were being charged when the men left for dinner; on their return they commenced drilling at one hole in which some dynamite had been placed of which they were not aware. The explosion, from the first blow of the hammer, killed one man, a young Swede; shattered the leg of another and blew out the eyes of a third, both also otherwise injured. The wounded were taken down by train on Monday to the Ottawa Hospital, and the man killed was buried in the English Church cemetery at Eganville. This camp is rather unfortunate, as two drowning accidents recently took place at it. The two hospitalized men were named Matt. Sohr and Matt. Mattson, both about 25; the name of the Swede who was killed was not known at the hospital. | Ottawa Journal 1895-07-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Eganville Enterprise 1895-08-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Almonte Gazette 1895-08-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-08-01 | The Central Counties Railway Company | On the 5th instant an excursion is to be run from Rockland on the Central Counties Railway, joining the C.A.R. and thence to St. Anne de Beaupre. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-08-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-08-01 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Messrs. J.R. Booth, E.J. Chamberlain and G.A. Mountain, chief engineer, returned yesterday from a tour of general inspection over the line of the O.A. & P.S. railway. They left on Monday and went over the road to a distance of about twenty miles beyond Whitney station on Long Lake. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-08-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-08-01 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A young man named Eugene Debault, who came from St. John, Que., and was engaged on Messrs. McDonald & Martin's work at camp No. 4 on the O.A. & P.S. Ry., while in bathing was drowned in four feet of water. Debault was anticipating a pleasant time on his return home this week when death stepped in and claimed him. The body was shipped to St. John for interment. Three weeks ago Mazzo Antoine was drowned in almost the same spot. | Almonte Gazette 1895-08-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-08-06 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | At a meeting of the Council of the village of Ottawa East, a by-law was passed by which the O.A. & P.S. railway, in consideration of the advantages accruing to the village from the construction of that road, was granted an exemption from taxes for a period of ten years, extendable another ten years if deemed necessary. A resolution was also passed providing for the construction of a macadamized road by the Parry Sound Railway Company in lieu of one appropriated for the company's use, the new road to be built to the council's approval. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-08-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-08-22 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Provincial Detective Grier is in jail at Parry Sound, for having shot at and dangerously wounded a man who was peddling whiskey to the navvies on the construction of the OA & PS road. The peddler ran away to escape arrest, and was fired at three times, the third shot striking him in the shoulder. | Mercury 1895-08-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-08-29 | The Central Counties Railway Company | Indenture by Canada Atlantic Ry. to lease the Rockland section for 99 years. | CNRHist |
| 1895-09-01 | The Central Counties Railway Company | On September 1st last year the Canada Atlantic secured control of the Central Counties railway. | Ottawa Journal 1896-01-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1895-09-12 | The Central Counties Railway Company | Morris Shaver, engineer, is suing the Central Counties Railway Company for $709 wages. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-09-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-10-25 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A moose bull attacked two members of the Parry Sound Rail Road a week or so ago. One man was successful in reaching the branches of a tree, but the other was less fortunate and was thrown by the bull some twenty feet; the moose made a second charge, but the bruised and sore man managed to make it to a tree. The next day, they secured a rifle, started in pursuit, and found the moose not far from the previous day's attack; as soon as the moose saw them it charged, but was brought down by the first shot. | Huntsville Forester 1895-11-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-10-25 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A private train of engine and five coaches went up last week to the Madawaska Forks, on the Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway, with Mr. Baldwin, a wealthy car builder of Philadelphia, Pa., and a party of American tourists. The party are enjoying themselves hunting and fishing in the neighborhood. | Almonte Gazette 1895-11-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-11-01 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | J. R. Booth is employing 3,389 men as follows: on the OA & PS railway 325; OA & PS construction 575; lumber yards and mills 1,159 men. None of these work for less than $1.25 a day. 1,330 men work in the woods at the same rate. | Mercury 1895-11-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-11-01 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | O.,A. & P.S. Notes. Snow has been lying almost all week. As the deer hunting season opens today, the country is flooded with hunters; it is estimated that several hundred have come up the O.A. & P.S. A party of hunters at MacAulay Lake (from Almonte) began the sport too early and were brought before the local magistrate and fined $10. American hunters carried off deer before the season opened, but escaped the deputy game wardens. The work in the shanties is booming all along the line; there will be over 1,000 men on the upper part of the Madawaska. The St. Anthony Lumber Company has over 300 men employed at the sawmill. 'Nipissing City' has been founded a short way east of Whitney, somewhat resembling the western city. | Almonte Gazette 1895-11-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-11-1 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Fourth cut complete. | Correspondence with David Jeanes, |
| 1895-11-10≥ | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Pushing Work on the O.A & P.S. railway. Mr. G. E. Mountain, C.E. of the Ottawa & Parry Sound Railway, went up the line yesterday on a tour of inspection from Ottawa to the terminus at Arnprior. The grading from Ottawa to Arnprior is almost completed, with the exception of a few little gaps here and there where culverts, of cedar, will be put in. The timber for the trestle crossing in the township of Nepean is all ready and work will go on at once. It is expected that in ten days or two weeks the work of laying the iron will begin. The company have opened a ballast pit about halfway between Ottawa and Arnprior and ballasting will be done both ways at the same time. The trestle work across the track of the old St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway is being pushed vigorously along. | Ottawa Journal 1895-11-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-11-25≥ | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | WHERE DEER ABOUND. The Toronto Globe said: 'Provincial Engineer McCallum, who left Wednesday to inspect a ten mile section of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railroad, has returned home. The portion of the road which he inspected lies in the townships of Nightingale in Haliburton, and Canisby and Airy, in the Nipissing district, three quarters of a mile running through the Algonquin Park. He found it to be in good condition. Nine miles of construction work beyond the point where he was is being pushed forward, and will be completed and ready for inspection shortly. He reports that there is about three inches of snow there, and that the region is full of deer.' | Ottawa Journal 1895-11-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-11-30 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Shovel levelling site of the former Dey's skating rink. | Correspondence with David Jeanes, |
| 1895-12-03 | The Central Counties Railway Company | Late employees of the Central Counties railway who had some difficulty with the railroad people over the wages earned last spring and summer, are now receiving ten cents on the dollar of their accounts. They do not know when they are to get the balance but are hoping for the best. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-12-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-12-08 | The Central Counties Railway Company | Line opened from South Indian to Rockland, 16 miles. | CNRHist |