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 subdivisions.
| Date | Subject | Statement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1894-03-30 | Middle Subdivision | Work on the construction of the O.A. & P.S. Railway above Golden Lake is being pushed ahead, and much progress has been made during the past few weeks. Should the weather continue fine Mr. Heald expects to have his contract completed a month ahead of the time allotted to him. Mr. Booth has decided to immediately let the contract for another 35 mile section, which will bring the road to the Eganville Estate. This portion will be built this summer, and next year the remainder of the line through to Elmsdale (the point where the O.A. & P.S. will make connection with the Parry Sound Colonization Railway) will be finished. Then through traffic will be commenced from Georgian Bay to the seaboard. | Mercury 1894-03-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-04-05 | Middle Subdivision | Owing to the spring floods having damaged the roadway of the O.A. & P.S. line in several places between Eganville and Golden Lake, the carriage of freight west of Eganville has been stopped. They are now busily repairing damages. Mr. J.R. Booth passed over the line last week as far as Golden Lake and inspected some of the new work. He was accompanied by Mr. Chamberlain, manager of the company. The construction of the line from Barry's Bay to Long Lake, a distance of thirty-five miles, will be pushed through rapidly. It is said the contractors are bound to have it completed by the first of November so as to be ready to ship lumber from the mills being erected by the American company which purchased the Perley and Pattee limits. It is said by some who think they ought to know that the division station between Ottawa and Parry Sound will be at Long Lake. | Ottawa Journal 1894-04-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Eastern Ontario Review 1894-04-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1894-04-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-05-14 | Middle Subdivision | Mr. G.A. Mountain, chief engineer of the Canada Atlantic and Ottawa and Parry Sound railway, returned from the far end of the latter line this morning. In conversation with the Free Press he said that the construction of the Parry Sound road is advancing rapidly. The contract to Killaloe is winding up and the track from Eganville to Golden Lake has been thoroughly ballasted. This part of the road will be ready for government inspection in a few days and when this is over the O.A. & P.S. will be in operation for 84 miles from Ottawa. The work is well advanced to Haggerty pass, 109 miles from here. And from that point to the 129th mile the ground has been broken. From the latter point up to the 142nd mile the right of way is being cleared. Frost is still to be found in many of the swamps. The company expects to have track laid this year from Ottawa 250 miles westward. Mr. Mountain leaves in a day or two for the Parry Sound Colonization railway, which is now within ten miles of its destination, Parry Sound. When the year's construction is completed there will be a gap of 65 miles between the work which started from Ottawa and the Colonization road which is working in the opposite direction. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-05-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1894-05-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-05-15 | Eastern Subdivision | The work of reballasting the main line of the Canada Atlantic railway from Moose Creek to this city is advancing steadily and a couple of trains are working on the section of road this side of Eastman's Springs. The roadway below Eastman's however, has not been gone over and trains are working there also. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-05-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-05-15 | Middle Subdivision | Steel for the new Parry Sound railway is arriving in this city at the rate of about twenty-five car loads a day. The rails are taken up at once to the far end of the road where they are distributed ready for laying later in the season. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-05-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-05-16 | Middle Subdivision | The ten mile section of the O.A. & P.S. Ry. above Golden Lake has been sub-let by the contractor Mr. Fauquier to J.C. O'Neil of Kemptville. | Ottawa Journal 1894-05-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-05-18 | Middle Subdivision | Messrs. Jos. Boucher, (Almonte) James Wilson and Arthur Beggs, stone masons, have taken a contract for all the stonework required on twenty-five miles of the O.A. & P.S. R. beyond Eganville. There will be about 4,000 square yards in all, costing in the neighbourhood of $40,000, and it has to be completed in 1894. | Mercury 1894-05-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-05-18 | Middle Subdivision | For the present the railway company have abandoned the gravel pit lying between Arnprior and Galetta. The sidings having been taken up. | Mercury 1894-05-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-05-21 | Middle Subdivision | The streets at night seem deserted since the opening of the boarding cars on the O.A. & P.S. Railway. Until very recently the hotel accommodation was taxed to the utmost and many private dwellings were filled with men working on the construction. Work on this line is now in full swing and the line is completed for some miles beyond Golden Lake. It is expected that regular train service will be opened to that point in the near future. | Ottawa Journal 1894-05-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-05-25 | Middle Subdivision | Mr. Fauquier, contractor on the O.A. & P.S. Railway, has sub-contracted ten miles of his recent contract of thirty-five miles to Mr. J.C. O'Neil, of Kemptville. Mr. George Ferguson, son of the M.P., has the lower end and Mr. Heald has ten miles at the west end. The bridge contractor on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. has purchased from Mr. Oliver Menard the right to quarry stone on his land in Grattan for five years. A switch is now being placed into the quarry. It is expected that about fifteen men will be employed and that the stone for the new Roman Catholic church in Eganville will also be taken from Mr. Menard's land. | Mercury 1894-05-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-06-01 | Middle Subdivision | On Wednesday evening after the arrival of the C.P.R. train, the engine with the baggage car attached, returned to Renfrew and during the night returned with a car loaded with dynamite for use on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. construction west of Eganville. | Mercury 1894-06-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-06-02 | Eastern Subdivision | The work of reballasting the main line of the Canada Atlantic railway between Ottawa and Casselman is progressing rapidly and in a short time the whole road will be in a condition to stand several years' hard traffic. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-06-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-06-08 | Middle Subdivision | Laying of steel started from Golden Lake to the west. One hundred and seventy-five ballast cars are loaded every day. Work from Parry Sound to the east is going well, and now they are on the 4th ten-mile contract. George Richardson is the OA & PS contractor beyond Eganville. | Mercury 1894-06-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-06-08 | Middle Subdivision | The new Booth railway between Eganville and Golden Lake, a distance of eight miles, has passed the government inspector and passenger trains will be put on at once. | Almonte Gazette 1894-06-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-06-08 | Middle Subdivision | The work of laying steel for the new Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway from Golden Lake station westward was commenced on Tuesday. Several miles will be finished at this stretch and rails will be laid as far as the ties are ready. One hundred and seventy-five cars are loaded with ballast every day at the Eganville pit for distribution along the far end of the road. The work is also progressing well from Parry Sound towards Ottawa, where the construction gang are now engaged on the fourth ten mile contract. There were shipped from the Elgin street depot yesterday three carloads of material for the construction of a station house nineteen miles on this side of Parry Sound. There were also shipped today three carloads of material containing everything necessary for the building of a very large water tank on the far end of the Parry Sound road. The tank and station house were all purchased in this city. The tank, which will contain 60,000 gallons of water, will be put up by men who will go west for the work next week under the direction of Mr. George Tomlinson. | Mercury 1894-06-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-06-26 | Middle Subdivision | The steel of the O.A. & P.S. is now laid to Killaloe, about fifteen miles beyond Eganville, and the work of construction well advanced over that distance. The O.A. & P.S. Ry. has been surveyed by the government engineer for ten miles west of Eganville to enable the company to draw the bonus for that distance. | Ottawa Journal 1894-06-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),The Equity, Shawville 1894-06-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-06-28 | Middle Subdivision | The boys who have been in the habit of throwing stones at passenger trains on the C.A.R. between the Chaudiere and Elgin Street station, are to be prosecuted. The police know their names. | Ottawa Journal 1894-06-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-13≤ | Middle Subdivision | The new railway will reach 20 miles west of Eganville by the end of the present month. | Almonte Gazette 1894-07-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-21 | Middle Subdivision | Over 2000 men at work. Yesterday, Chief Engineer Mountain and some of his assistants came down from the scene of active operations between Eganville and Killaloe, and report all going on lively. There are now 35 miles under contract above Killaloe, to which point the iron horse now travels regularly, all of which it is proposed to finish this fall. That being accomplished there will then remain 70 miles to finish the road to the Soo. The scheme will be completed next season. THE CONTRACTORS: the following are the different contractors for the seven sections into which the levelling and grading, and making the road ready for the rails, is now going on: No. 1 - R.N. Slater; 2 - J. O'Brien; 3 - W. Heald; 4 - O'Neil and Ferguson; 5 - E. Fauquier; 6 - W. Heald; 7 - Burford, all being sub-contractors under Mr. Fauquier. It is proposed to put all available help on the work so that the 35 mile division now in hand may be completed early in December. | Ottawa Journal 1894-07-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-07-27 | Middle Subdivision | A long train of steel rails for the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway arrived at the Elgin street depot last evening, and was immediately taken up to the far end of Mr. Booth's new road. A large force of men have been laying steel for a couple of months, but the supply ran out last week, and as a result the work had to be closed down for a few days. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-07-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-08-01 | Middle Subdivision | Mr. Donaldson, superintendent of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway has returned from a trip to the far end of the Parry Sound road where construction is being pushed. Five hundred and sixty men are hard at work, and steel is being laid steadily. There are something like 600 men working on the Parry Sound construction above Eganville. Steel is being laid above Killaloe. The location of the next station has not been fully decided upon yet. The contractors preparing the roadbed through the woods have now more than a thousand navvies employed and more are being taken on every week. The reported strike among these navvies seems to have been incorrect, for with the exception of a very few Frenchmen from Hull, these navvies are all steady at work. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-08-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-08-14 | Middle Subdivision | Four car loads of horses and one hundred men passed up the O.A. & P.S. Ry. this morning for the St. Anthony Lumber Co.'s limits beyond Barrys Bay. It was this company that bought the old Perley limits in this locality and this is the first season that the company will work them. The company are erecting a sawmill about sixty miles beyond Killaloe where their logs will be cut and the lumber shipped over the O.A. & P.S. Ry. and C.A.R. to the States. | Canada Lumberman 1894-09-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1894-08-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-08-17 | Middle Subdivision | Government inspection of the latest section of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway from Golden Lake to Killaloe was performed on Friday, Mr. Thomas Ridout, C.E., acting for the Dominion government and Mr. McCallum, C.E., for the provincial. There were on board the special train Mr. John R. Booth, Mr. Mountain, chief engineer, and Mr. Morley Donaldson. The latest part of the new road is getting pretty well beyond the bounds of settlement; the country is for the most part hilly and wooded, and will no doubt be used for grazing in a few years. It was ten o'clock at night when the party returned to Ottawa. Trains will be run as far as Killaloe in a short space of time, the station house and yard at that place being about ready for occupation. The next section will bring the line into the famous Haggarty Pass, on which men have been engaged blasting a rock cutting since early spring. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-08-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Almonte Gazette 1894-08-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-08-17 | Middle Subdivision | Heald, the contractor, has moved his men from Killaloe to his upper contract at Long Lake. Contractor O'Brien will be finished soon; all the rock cuts are completed. | Mercury 1894-08-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),The Equity, Shawville 1894-08-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-08-17≤ | Middle Subdivision | The Ottawa and Parry Sound R.R. will be completed to Long Lake, 120 miles from Ottawa, this fall. There are 40 miles built at the Parry Sound end of the line, which leaves only 40 miles to be built to complete the through road from the Georgian Bay to Ottawa. | Almonte Gazette 1894-08-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-08-25 | Rockland Branch | Rockland Branch is being rushed. The building of the line of the Central Counties railway from Rockland to Casselman is booming. Six miles of the line are already graded and soon the laying of the iron from the South Indian terminus — from which point operations are being conducted — will be commenced and the construction train will be gradually pushing onward towards the Rockland lumber piles. The road will run in an almost straight line from South Indian to Rockland, touching at the Stewart quarries. On first of January the road is expected to be completed when it will be handed over, after government inspection, to the Canada Atlantic company, who have agreed to operate the line. Only two small bridges will be necessary to build, that over Bearbrook Creek being the one of any considerable account. Rockland is the only municipality granting a bonus up to the present time, $6,000 being the sum voted, conditional upon completion within the year. | Ottawa Journal 1894-08-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-08-31 | Middle Subdivision | Rushing The O.P.& S. Work. General Manager E.J. Chamberlain, of the O.A. & P.S. Railway, returned to Ottawa last week after making a trip up the line of the Parry Sound railway. He says the construction is going on rapidly, over two thousand men being employed on the works. This summer ten miles of the west end of the line - that is, between the Northern Pacific Junction Railway tracks and the Sound - have been built, which leaves about eight miles more to be constructed to connect Parry Sound Town with the Northern Junction line. These eight miles will be built next summer. In the meantime the line from the east is being rushed along, and it is expected that the road between Ottawa clean through to the town of Parry Sound will be finished about the first of November of next year. | Almonte Gazette 1894-08-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-09-07 | Middle Subdivision | Last week we paid a visit to the quarry on Mr. Oliver Menard's land about five miles west of Eganville, on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. We were shown over the work by Mr. Wilson, the genial foreman. The work has been going on since the beginning of May, and for the small gang of men kept employed they have got out and dressed a large quantity of stone, over 400 cords. Mr. Wilson, with his partners, have the contract of building all the bridges on the O.A. & P.S. Ry., six in number, four of which will be built this fall and for which enough stone has already been got out. On Friday the men will stop work for about a month and then return and get out the material for the other two bridges which will be built next summer. None of the stone has been shipped out as yet, but will be next month. | Mercury 1894-09-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-09-21≤ | Middle Subdivision | The contract of Mr. M.J. O'Brien, on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. line will, it is expected, be completed by the end of this week. This will enable the rails to be laid to some distance beyond Barry's Bay. The work west of this on the Fauquier contract, on which there is a number of subcontractors, is being pushed rapidly forward to completion. | Mercury 1894-09-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-10-12 | Middle Subdivision | The rails on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. have now reached Carson's Lake, five miles from Barrys Bay. The work along the whole line to Long Lake is being pushed vigorously and long stretches are ready for the ties and rails. | Ottawa Journal 1894-10-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1894-10-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Brockville Recorder 1894-10-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-10-29 | Rockland Branch | The work on the Central Counties railway is being rapidly pushed forward and the line will probably be open for traffic the coming winter. | Ottawa Journal 1894-10-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-11-02 | Rockland Branch | Work on the branch line to Rockland is progressing rapidly, the grading is nearly finished and next week will see part of the rails and ties in position. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-11-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-11-12 | Rockland Branch | The Central Counties Railway have commenced distributing ties and rails on their new line. | Ottawa Journal 1894-11-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-11-12 | Rockland Branch | Mr. James Shanly, chief engineer of the United Counties railway, in an interview yesterday said the whole line from South Indian, on the Canada Atlantic, to Rockland, on the Ottawa River, a distance of seventeen miles, would be completed and trains running shortly after the new year. "We will begin track laying on Monday morning and a good gang of men will rush the work ahead quite rapidly," he said. He expects a large passenger and freight traffic will develop itself from the day the new railway is opened. The Canada Atlantic have leased the road and will run it in connection with their system. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-11-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-11-13 | Rockland Branch | Mr. Jas. Shanley, chief engineer of the United Counties railway, was in Montreal yesterday. He stated that track laying would be begun at once between South Indian and Rockland. This line will be 17 miles in length and will be completed early in the new year. The new road will be operated by the Canada Atlantic Railway, who have leased it for a term of years. | Ottawa Journal 1894-11-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-11-18 | Middle Subdivision | Ten miles of the O.A. & P.S. railway between Barry's Bay and the Opeongo Forks passed under Government inspection on Monday. Mr. Lynch, government engineer, made a thorough examination of this new portion of the road and found everything satisfactory. The rails have been laid for a distance of twelve miles beyond the point of inspection. | Mercury 1894-11-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Huntsville Forester 1894-11-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1894-11-20 | Rockland Branch | The first rails on the new railroad between South Indian and Rockland are being laid. | Ottawa Journal 1894-11-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-11-23 | Middle Subdivision | Navvies are coming down now, off the Barry's Bay and Long Lake (now Galeairy Lake) job. Winter operations will be limited to clearing and blasting mostly. | Ottawa Journal 1894-11-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1894-11-27 | Middle Subdivision | General cessation of work among the construction gangs of the O.A. & P.S. road has now commenced and by this time next week will have been completed. Mr. M. Delaney, construction foreman for Mr. Wm. Heald, the furthest western contractor, arrived down last night with his gang of men. He said that the road was now graded up to the end of the contracts at Longlake and the steel will be laid to that point by Saturday, or at latest on Monday next. The work has been carried on with great dispatch and satisfaction to all, each of the half dozen contractors having been fortunate in securing excellent staffs of steady men. Mr. Delaney says it is one of the finest and most substantial roads built in Canada or anywhere else. As there is a large amount of trestle work on the last section there are a number of men at work in that department, but otherwise the road is deserted of men who are now making their way towards Ottawa to winter in the city and environs. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-11-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1894-11-30 | Middle Subdivision | Work on the O.A. & P.S.R. This week the season's work on the O.A. & P.S. railway will reach an end. The line will then be completed to Long Lake, a distance of 144 miles from Ottawa, leaving only 60 miles to be built next season to complete the line to Parry Sound. Rails are now laid to 149 miles from Ottawa. By the end of the week the fifteen hundred men who are still engaged on the work will be discharged. More than two thousand men were employed all season on the work. The trains coming eastward are to be seen crowded every day with returning laborers, principally Italians. During the winter nothing will be done besides survey work. One party has now set out from Long Lake and another from Elmsdale, at the western end of the line, to rectify the hurried survey made during the summer of the sixty miles of the line unconstructed. | Almonte Gazette 1894-11-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Huntsville Forester 1894-12-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1894≤ | Hawkesbury Branch | From 1894, when he was appointed engineer, William H. Taylor ran trains on the Hawkesbury-Glen Robertson line; he recalled one in a blinding snowstorm that stalled it for a whole day: "When they left Hawkesbury early that morning the weather was fine and clear, but by the time they got to within four miles of Glen Robertson the snow lay so thick on the track that they couldn't budge an inch." Conductor James Clarke snowshoed about four miles to get provisions for the passengers, and the coach heaters kept them warm. | Ottawa Citizen 1937-07-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1895-03-08 | Middle Subdivision | Mr. Wm. Heald has sub-let a contract for the construction of the O.A. & P.S. from the Parry Sound end eastward and has left for the west to begin work on his contract. | Ottawa Journal 1895-03-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-04-19 | Rockland Branch | Surveyors are engaged today surveying the sidings into W.C. Edwards and Co.'s yards. | Ottawa Journal 1895-04-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-04-22 | Middle Subdivision | Two new gangs of workmen have just been despatched to begin operations on the far end of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway; there were two locomotives and a long train of flats, together with one of the steam shovels, which has wintered in the Elgin street yards. A second shovel, which has not left the city, will be sent up the line in a few days to begin work in one of the gravel pits. The frost seems to be pretty well out of the ground and it is anticipated that one of the shovels will be able to operate without difficulty. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-04-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-04-26 | Rockland Branch | The Rockland and South Indian Railway will be opened for traffic in a short time. Regular trains will stop at The Brook and Clarence Creek where stations are being erected. | Ottawa Journal 1895-04-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-04-26 | Middle Subdivision | Four hundred men are already at work on the O.A. & P.S.R. Three hundred are engaged on the first section west of the eastern terminus and one hundred on the second section. The principal work at present is rock-cutting and clearing the right of way. Three hundred men are now at the end of the iron ready to go to work. | Almonte Gazette 1895-04-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Ottawa Journal 1895-04-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-04-29 | Rockland Branch | The Central Counties Ry. Co. have resumed work on their line and expect to commence ballasting shortly. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-04-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-05-10 | Middle Subdivision | Track laying will likely begin on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. by the end of next week. The grading is going along rapidly and two gravel pits are being worked. | Ottawa Journal 1895-05-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-06-07 | Middle Subdivision | There are 1,800 men at work on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound railway. | Almonte Gazette 1895-06-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-06-14 | Middle Subdivision | O.A. & P.S. NOTES. About 150 men are at work between Opeongo Forks and Whitney on 'the lift' and on ballast trains. Messrs. D. McDonald's and McMartin, sub-contractors for the first ten miles above Whitney, have about 400 men employed grading, rock-cutting, etc. Messrs. Breuder & McNaughton have two miles of trestle work on the first ten miles; there will thus be about 500 men employed. Large numbers of men are coming in every week looking for work, many returning without finding it. The railway is being constructed on the north shore of Long and Rock lakes, then crosses the Madawaska at the foot of Whitefish lake to the south side. Messrs. O'Neill & Ferguson have the contract for the second ten miles and have about 300 men at work, 100 of whom are Italians. The contract for the third ten has not been let, as the government have not given a bonus for construction past Whitefish lake. Whitney is one hundred and forty three miles from Ottawa, the present terminus of the O.A.& P.S., situated on the eastern end of Long lake in the southern portion of the District of Nipissing, named for Mr. Whitney, manager of the St. Anthony Lumber Co., who is erecting a large sawmill there. Construction work is being pushed and already the steel has been laid for a short distance up the newly graded roadway. | Almonte Gazette 1895-06-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-07-04 | Rockland Branch | Messrs. E.J. Chamberlain, M. Donaldson and J. Graham of the C.A.R. Company have inspected the new railway line from South Indian to Rockland. It is probable the C.A.R. Company will take over the line. New stations have been erected at Cheney's and Clarence Creek, and another is to be put up at Rockland. Mr. Geo. Tomlinson was the contractor for the stations, and has received many compliments for his work. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-07-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-07-14 | Middle Subdivision | Mr. Geo. Mountain has returned from a trip over the line. The ten mile sections of Mr. Fauquier and O'Neil and Ferguson are well under way. The Mud Creek bridge on the Fauquier contract is now finished; at first it was thought a pile structure 1,500 feet long would be needed, but the creek has been crossed with a bridge 230 feet long, with the long trestle work on the approaches being filled in. The trestle work on MacDonald and Brodeur Bays is well under way. The Fauquier contract will be finished by August 1, and O'Neil and Ferguson's by September; it is expected that trains will be running to 164 miles distant from Ottawa by the 1st of October. Two thousand men are now on the work, and the contractors are beginning to reduce their staff. | Ottawa Journal 1895-07-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-07-19 | Western Subdivision | The O.A & P.S. R.R. is now graded from end to end. 2000 men have been at work on it. It is expected that trains will be running 164 miles distant from Ottawa by Oct. 1st. | Almonte Gazette 1895-07-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-07-24 | Rockland Branch | A correspondent from the rising village at Cheeney's station where a post office has just been opened, writes as to signs of progress along the line of the new branch of railway running from South Indian to Rockland. Freight is now carried through to the lumber town on the Ottawa, but passenger traffic has not been begun owing to the fact that ballasting is in progress; this work is expected to be completed in five or six weeks and then regular passenger service will be begun. Two stations have been completed, one at Cheeney's and the other at Clarence Creek. The buildings were examined yesterday by Reeve Landry and Deputy Reeve Touchette on behalf of the township of Clarence which voted $1,000 towards their construction; the work was pronounced first class and contractor Tomlinson complimented. At Cheeney's there is a regular hum of business: in addition to the post office there is a carding mill, a saw mill and a general store, and a survey of the proposed village has just been completed. | Ottawa Journal 1895-07-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-07-26 | Western Subdivision | O.A. & P.S. Construction Notes. Messrs. D.R. McDonald and McMaster will finish the grading on the first ten miles shortly. Already the steel is laid across Mud Bay although the steam shovel is still working at a cut below that point; a second shovel has begun work on a good pit on the shore of the bay. Messrs. O'Neill & Ferguson had over 400 men on the second ten miles and are pushing the work to completion. A young Frenchman who had been away from friends for almost five years was drowned at camp No. 4 on Saturday — the second drowning accident at the same place. | Almonte Gazette 1895-07-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-07-27 | Middle Subdivision | FAR END OF THE O.A. & P.S. How the 20 Mile Contract is Being Put Through. The twenty miles of construction work west of Whitney was let in two ten-mile contracts, to be ready for steel laying by 1 August and 1 September respectively. The first ten miles was secured by Mr. E.J. Fauquier of Toronto, who sub-let the grading and rockcutting to Messrs. McDonald & McMartin and the trestle building and pile driving to Messrs. Breauder & McNaughton. O'Neil & Ferguson were awarded the second ten miles and are superintending it personally. The railway's interests are looked after by Chief Engineer Geo. E. Mountain, assisted by Arthur Bruce, C.E., on the first ten miles, and W.C. Cranston, C.E., on the second. McDonald & McMartin have already discharged a number of their men, putting finishing touches on a few rock cuts and fills — the largest amount of rock cutting yet done on the O.A. & P.S. within the same distance. O'Neil & Ferguson have the first five miles almost ready for the steel, ahead of their specified time; an alteration to the survey by Mr. Cranston removed a quarter-mile of heavy rock cutting through a hill, saving the railway company about $10,000 but leaving the contractors with blasting material on their hands, and bush fires have also cost them time and men fighting them for a couple of weeks. | Ottawa Journal 1895-07-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-07-29 | Rockland Branch | Rockland July 29 - about 175 of our citizens took in the picnic at South Indian on Thursday last and report a very good time. An excursion train left here at 9.30 with the Rockland contingent and the Cumberland Football Club and their admirers. At Clarence creek and Cheney's station their number was increased considerably. At 7 o'clock the train left for home where a pleasant surprise awaited the passengers: the band and a large number of citizens were at the station and gave the boys a rousing reception. | Ottawa Journal 1895-07-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-08-31 | Rockland Branch | The delegation of strikers from the Rockland branch of the Central Counties railroad, who visited the city yesterday afternoon, met with very little success in their quest for satisfaction. They were after the manager of the new road, Mr. Hibbard, but were unable to locate him, and started in to secure a guarantee from other quarters for their arrears in pay. Today the men are reported to have taken full possession of the line, spiking the switches to effectually prevent the running of trains. They have also taken legal advice as to the best way of securing a settlement of their claims. A consignment of cattle from W.C. Edwards' farm at Rockland was to have been shipped yesterday for the Industrial fair in Toronto, but the employees would not allow it to proceed to South Indian where the cars would take the Canada Atlantic railway line; the cattle were taken out of the cars and brought up to the city on board the Empress instead. A special train having on board Mr. E.J. Chamberlain, general manager on the C.A.R., left the city this morning, for the purpose, it is said, of arranging matters with the dissatisfied employees. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-08-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),The Equity, Shawville 1895-09-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-09-03 | Western Subdivision | Mr. Wm. Heald, contractor on the western section of the O.A. & P.S. railway, is in the city at the Russell. On his contract on the western division about 200 hands are employed and the construction of the railway is progressing satisfactorily. It is expected that the gap will be closed on the 15th of November. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-09-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-09-05 | Rockland Branch | The strike on the Central Counties Railway is now over. The one hundred and forty men who struck last week for their arrears in wages went back to work on Monday morning. The difficulty has been settled by the C.A.R. agreeing to complete the line, taking it altogether out of the hands of the contractors and reengaging the men. The company however does not assume any of the contractors' indebtedness, but will merely finish the line as rapidly as possible and pay the men once a fortnight. Mr. Jno. Graham, C.A.R. roadmaster, now has charge of the work. Two trains are busy ballasting the remainder of the road, and it is expected to open passenger service over the line from Rockland to South Indian, where the road taps the C.A.R. main line, in time to bring people into Ottawa for the exhibition. | Ottawa Journal 1895-09-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-09-20 | Rockland Branch | The completion of the Rockland branch is being pushed forward rapidly, but the intention to have the line ready to run passenger trains over it for exhibition week can not be carried out. The line will not be ready for passenger service before the middle of next month. | Ottawa Journal 1895-09-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-09-20 | Western Subdivision | Next week all the construction camps along the O.A. & P.S. Ry. will be closed as the season's work will then be about ended. Chief Engineer Mountain went up the line today to inspect the last of the work. Nearly all of the men employed on the line have been discharged; there is now only one mile more of the road to be built on McNeil [sic] and Ferguson's contract, which will complete the season's work. | Ottawa Journal 1895-09-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-09-25 | Rockland Branch | Passenger trains are to commence running on the Rockland branch of the Central Counties Railway on October 1. Freight trains are now being run on the line. A gentleman who had considerable to do with the construction of the branch states that it is going to prove a greater benefit than ever was expected. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-09-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Ottawa Free Press 1895-09-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-09-27 | Middle Subdivision | Inspection of a ten mile section of the Parry Sound line one mile west of Whitney took place last week. This makes the completed portion of the railway 154 miles. | Mercury 1895-10-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-10-04 | Rockland Branch | Unpaid laborers on the C.C. Ry. want redress. Petition by 140 employees to Ontario government. The employees are said to be six and seven months in arrears of wages and their united claims will exceed $15,000. Since the line has been taken over for completion by the Canada Atlantic Ry. the men have been paid regularly on the 14th of each month. If the work progresses as quickly as it has done since the change the road will be ready for passenger traffic between Rockland and South Indian within three weeks. This line will be an important feeder of the C.A.R. Mr. George A. Mountain, chief engineer of the C.A.R., went down to the Rockland branch today. | Ottawa Journal 1895-10-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-10-04 | Western Subdivision | AT THE DOOR OF PARRY SOUND: Contractor Plouf, of the OA & PS Ry., who has the contract for the construction of the last ten miles at the western end of the line, is in the city today. The line is now built to within a mile of the town of Parry Sound, and within a few weeks it will be completed. The terminus of the line will be on an island in the Georgian Bay in front of the town, forming a breakwater with an excellent land locked harbour where the great shipping vessels of the lake could lie at anchor; the water is at least thirty feet deep all around the point of the railway terminus, so vessels can be loaded and unloaded to and from railway cars without inconvenience. Trains are now running over forty miles of the western end of the line. About six hundred men were employed on the construction this summer. | Ottawa Journal 1895-10-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Almonte Gazette 1895-10-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-10-12 | Western Subdivision | There are still about seven miles of rails to be laid on the eastern end, but after this is done the season's work will be finished. | Ottawa Journal 1895-10-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-10-18 | Rockland Branch | C.A.R. to Rockland [Churcher: printed as 'Rockcliffe' in the issue, evidently an error]. The Rockland branch of the C.A.R. is almost complete. The last touch on the work of construction is expected to be put on this week and the company propose running regular passenger trains over the branch next week. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-10-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-10-18 | Western Subdivision | Work on the railway is being pushed along as fast as circumstances will warrant. The rock cutting is almost completed, and teams are now busy lowering the swamp near the Rose Point Hotel, which has to be taken down some thirteen feet. Filling up Willet's lake has been abandoned and workmen are now engaged in driving piles for a bridge across the lake. At the other end of the section the gravel train is busy ballasting and this part of the work will be pushed forward as rapidly as possible. Several times lately the sound of the locomotive whistle has been heard in town, giving Parry Sound notice that the long looked for railway is almost at its door. Last week Post Office Inspector Jones arranged for the dispatch of daily mails over the Parry Sound Railway between Parry Sound and Emsdale, Sprucedale and Seguin. | Huntsville Forester 1895-10-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-11-01 | Western Subdivision | The season's operations on the OA & PS Ry. are at an end. The force of men employed on the construction all summer have been laid off. All the camps are empty with the exception of a few straggling ones that house a small party of men that remain to finish the ballasting. | Huntsville Forester 1895-11-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-11-05 | Rockland Branch | One of the construction engines on the Central Counties railway ran off the track on Saturday by the spreading of the rails and fell over into the ditch on its side. A gang of men were employed raising it on Sunday. | Ottawa Journal 1895-11-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-12-05 | Rockland Branch | New Branch of the C.A.R. will be opened Monday. The government inspection of the Rockland branch of the C.A.R. will take place tomorrow or Saturday and the line will be formally opened on Monday next. The Rockland branch is seventeen miles in length and extends from South Indian on the main line of the C.A.R. to Rockland. There are four stations on the line: The Brook, Cheneys, Clarence Creek and Telephone Road. About a mile and a half from Rockland a branch diverges off to Edwards lumber yards through which several sidings have been laid; almost the entire cut of Edwards mill will be shipped out over this line and the C.A.R. to the American markets. The construction of the road was begun about a year ago by the Central Counties Railway, who carried on the work until a few months ago when, being financially embarrassed, the completion of the line was given over to the C.A.R. | Ottawa Journal 1895-12-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-12-09 | Rockland Branch | Rockland Branch Now Open for Traffic. The Rockland branch of the C.A.R. was opened for freight and passenger traffic this morning and agents appointed at Clarence Creek and Rockland. The government inspection of the railway tracks from the C.A.R. at South Indian to Rockland took place on Saturday and proved satisfactory, the result being that passenger traffic was commenced this morning. The line is 17 miles in length. | Ottawa Journal 1895-12-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Ottawa Free Press 1895-12-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Mercury 1895-12-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1895-12-13 | Western Subdivision | Mr. Cuddy, Dominion Inspector of Railways, and Mr. McCallum, Ontario Inspector of Railways, with a number of leading officials of the OA & PS R., recently inspected the last ten miles of the road between White Fish Lake and Cache Lake. They found everything satisfactory. The road is now completed to 168 miles from Ottawa. | Eganville Enterprise 1895-12-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1896-01-24 | Western Subdivision | Mr. E. Fauquier, of Toronto, has been given the contract of constructing the incompleted 47 miles of the Parry Sound Railway. The uncompleted portion lies between Lake of the Two Rivers of the eastern line and Scotia station of the western line. Work will be commenced early, as Mr. Booth is anxious to have the line completed by the fall. (The Huntsville Forester of 26 February adds that the contract 'was let to E. F. Fauquier of Toronto, at a figure close to half a million dollars.') | Ottawa Citizen 1896-01-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Huntsville Forester 1896-02-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-01-31 | Western Subdivision | Tomorrow Mr. J. R. Booth will send a gang of men to his Egan limits on the Madawaska ... The men will take out a quantity of dimension timber, which will be shipped to Ottawa by the Parry Sound road, and run right to Mr. Booth's yards at the Chaudiere. The Parry Sound railway runs through the Egan limits. | Ottawa Journal 1896-01-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-02-07 | Western Subdivision | Mr. Fauquier has to put in for his works on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. construction, 600 tons of provisions and hay. A road has to be cut for a distance of 27 miles and all the material has to be in before the winter roads break up. Men are now busy cutting out the road. D.D. McDonald & Co. contractors for the first ten miles have also put in 200 tons of material. Over one hundred men are already at work and more are daily going up. Mr. C. Campbell of Eganville, has one large camp at the end of iron and will soon have two more in running order further west. | Ottawa Journal 1896-02-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1896-02-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-02-14 | Western Subdivision | Of the 47 miles, D.D. MacDonald and Murdoch have the first ten miles; O'Neill & Ferguson the next twelve miles; five remain unlet, and Poulin and Fitzpatrick have twenty miles on the other end of the work. Already the engineers have gone in with their staffs, and supplies for building camps are coming up the line. | Almonte Gazette 1896-02-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-02-14 | Western Subdivision | Supplies are taken to the American camps on the Upper Lakes by the last twenty miles of railway above Whitney. Even some of McLaughlin's camps on the Petewawa received their supplies by the railway. | Almonte Gazette 1896-02-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-02-14 | Western Subdivision | The commencement of work on the OA & PS construction will greatly benefit this section. A larger number of men than was ever known before have been unable to get employment in the shanties, and many of these will now get employment in cutting out the right-of-way and in the rock cuts. | Mercury 1896-02-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-02-14 | Western Subdivision | Trains will be run in a few days from Emsdale into Parry Sound, a distance of over sixty miles. Mr. J. E. Switzer has gone up in charge of an engineering party, who will survey the line from Emsdale eastward until they meet the other party that is surveying westward. | Mercury 1896-02-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-02-14≥ | Western Subdivision | Mr. A. W. Fleck, secretary-treasurer, and Mr. Geo. A. Mountain, chief engineer of the OA & PS Ry., returned last week from Parry Sound where they were representing the company at the inspection of the last part of the western end of the line by the Ontario and Dominion government engineers, which took place on Wednesday. Eight miles of line, which completes the line into the waters of the Georgian Bay at Parry Sound were inspected. Mr. Thomas Ridout was the engineer for the Dominion government, and Mr. McCallum represented the Ontario government. (As reported by 14 February 1896; the source dates the event only relatively.) | Mercury 1896-02-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-03-04 | Western Subdivision | One hundred and fifty tons of dynamite will be used during the coming summer in the construction of the O.A. & P.S. Railway ... brought to Ottawa by C.P.R. and then carried over the O.A. & P.S. line by special train. From the present terminus at Cache Lake it will be drawn to the different magazines erected along the survey from that place to Elmsdale, an intervening distance of 47 miles. The magazines are to be built wherever possible on islands in the lakes some distance from the scene of operations. | Ottawa Journal 1896-03-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-03-04 | Western Subdivision | Chief Engineer Mountain, who came down the line this morning, states that ten teams began distributing dynamite along the line from Cache Lake to Elmsdale today. He states that 150 teams and almost 600 men are now busy on the construction ... All the work is now under way. Rock cutting, pile driving, sand cuttings and clearing have commenced. Three pile drivers are at work. The camps along the line, about thirty in number, are now all completed and ready for occupancy. They will accommodate about 2,000 men. | Ottawa Journal 1896-03-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-03-07 | Western Subdivision | Mr. Geo. Ferguson, of O'Neill & Ferguson, contractors on the OA & PS expansion, was in town this week. He informed The Mercury that actual construction work was being rapidly pushed to the last mile to Cache Lake, which the Company wish to be able to run to by the end of June. The piling of two bays of the lake is also being pushed along, while the ice lasts. | Mercury 1896-03-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-03-20 | Western Subdivision | A large number of men are ging up the line to work on the railway, there being already some 400 at work. | Almonte Gazette 1896-03-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-04-17 | Western Subdivision | It is expected that the grading will be finished across Cache Lake ready for the steel by the end of May. | Almonte Gazette 1896-04-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-04-17 | Western Subdivision | Trains run from Whitney to the end of track Tuesdays and Fridays after the arrival of the mixed from Barry's Bay. | Almonte Gazette 1896-04-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-04-17 | Western Subdivision | Chambers and Richardson, of Whitney, have the contract for the last section let by Mr. Fauqier, about 6 miles. Some 500 men are at work on the first 20 miles, and more are expected as soon as snow goes. ... Clearing the right of way and driving on the first 20 miles about finished. | Almonte Gazette 1896-04-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-04-28 | Western Subdivision | The O.A. & P.S. Ry. is now accepting freight to a distance of twenty miles above Whitney. | Ottawa Journal 1896-04-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-05-01 | Western Subdivision | The construction of the OA & PS Ry. goes rapidly on. The work of pile driving and clearing right of way is about finished. The track will be ready for the steel across Cache Lake by the middle of next month. The contractors have all their supplies in for the first twenty miles of this season's construction. | Ottawa Journal 1896-05-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-05-17 | Western Subdivision | A daily train is now running between Eganville and Whitney. | Almonte Gazette 1896-05-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-09-09 | Western Subdivision | The OA & PS are now extending their telegraph line west of Cache Lake. ... The grading is now completed for one hundred and fifty miles west of Ottawa. | Mercury 1896-09-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-09-18 | Western Subdivision | The steel is all laid on the OA & PS R. R. to within twenty-three miles of joining the ends on which work is proceeding, westward, and eastward, to and from Parry Sound. Some delay will be caused by extensive rock cutting yet to be done, but all is expected to be completed by the 1st of November. | Mercury 1896-09-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-09-18 | Western Subdivision | End of the steel, Sept. 1 - Track laying began at this point on the 31st of August, and will probably be pushed through to Gilmour's Mill Junction by Sept. 19th. ... This covers the first to ten miles of construction this summer, which is being built by McDonald and Murdoch. Up to the present this distance had to be traveled on foot and by boat. On this nearly 1,000 men of all classes worked during the summer months. | Almonte Gazette 1896-09-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-09-28 | Western Subdivision | Through this twenty-mile gap, however, it is expected to have the line completed by the 20th October. To accomplish this feat construction work is being pushed from both ends, operations with steam drills, blasting and hoisting equipment having been in progress day and night continually for months past on Summit Cut in question. ... at what is known as 'Summit Cut,' for instance, there is a working of 2,000 feet in the sheer face of the mountain. | Ottawa Citizen 1896-09-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-10-23 | Western Subdivision | The steel gang reached the summit cut at the end of O'Neill and Ferguson's section last week, and a portion of the gang is paid off. The large rock cut will probably be finished this week. Chambers and Richardson have completed their five - mile section. ... Snow fell on Saturday night and another fall came Monday morning. - the work of track-laying is almost completed. | Almonte Gazette 1896-10-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-11-02 | Western Subdivision | Chief Engineer Mountain explained that that statement was somewhat misleading, for although the track between Ottawa and Scotia, on the Grand Trunk Railway will be completed through, yet there remains to be constructed the bridge across the Sound and nearly four miles of track beyond, to the terminus at deep water on Georgian Bay. This track cannot be laid until the bridge is completed which will take some time yet. | Ottawa Journal 1896-11-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-11-27≥ | Western Subdivision | W Crisper, aged about 25, a young man of Gloucester township, acting as brakesman on the Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound railway, was killed on Monday afternoon at Sim's Pit, 150 miles up the line. No one witnessed the accident, but it is supposed that he was either walking alongside or on top of the flat cars and fell in between. The train was moving slowly at the time. The body of the unfortunate young man was cut in two so that death was instantaneous. An inquest was held Monday night, conducted by Mr. Simpson, Algonquin Park Commissioner ... the jury brought in a verdict of accidental death, attaching no blame whatsoever to the company. (As reported by 27 November 1896; the source dates the event only relatively.) | Almonte Gazette 1896-11-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-12-11 | Hawkesbury Branch | It is reported that the Canada Atlantic will put on an early morning train which will leave Hawkesbury at six o'clock, and Vankleek Hill at 6.15 making connection at Coteau with the 'Moccasin' arriving in Montreal about nine o'clock. This would be a great convenience, a person could then transact business in Montreal and return the same day. | Eastern Ontario Review 1896-12-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |