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 all entity types.
| Date | Subject | Statement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1907-12-11 | Arnprior | A head-on collision occurred at the G.T.R. yards Arnprior. The west bound passenger train ran into the freight, telescoping the baggage car and completely wrecking it and the engine. No one was killed but the passengers received a bad shaking up. Mr. Geo D.R. Milford of Carp, a traveller for McColl Bros of Toronto, was among the passengers, but escaped with a slight shaking up. | Kemptville Telegram 1907-12-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1907-12-24 | Hawkesbury Branch | Breadalbane. What might have been a serious accident took place on the Grand Trunk Ry. on Tuesday, as the 10.45 a.m. train was going up, the rails spread and the coaches went for about a hundred feet on the trees. No serious damage resulted, however, and by 3 p.m. the train was got on the rails and proceeded to Hawkesbury. | Eastern Ontario Review 1907-12-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1907-6 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #606 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1908 | Joe Lake | Hotel Algonquin constructed by Tom Merrill. | Wright p1 |
| 1908 | Joe Lake | Station constructed. | Wright pvii |
| 1908 | Algonquin Park | Hotel and station opened. | Fleming quoting Adelison, O. Early Days of Algonquin Park |
| 1908 | Alexander Millar | The great fire of 1908 wiped out Alexander Millar's general merchandise business. | PembrokeCNC 1915-06-01(cited as [PembrokeCNC] on https://sites.google.com...) |
| 1908-01-30 | Depot Harbor | New machine shop completed in year ending today. | Newby 2005-04-26 |
| 1908-02 | Canada Atlantic Parlour Car 202 | Brd. Dorval, P.Q. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1908-02-13 | Ottawa Central Station | The G.T.R. now proposes a big hotel and Central depot, promised to the city in return for fixed assessments for fifteen and twenty years respectively. The buildings are both considerably reduced in size from what was first proposed to council and promised by the G.T.R. authorities. | Ottawa Journal 1908-02-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1908-02-17 | Grand Trunk Railway | INQUEST OPENS. Broken Rail from G.T.R. before the Jury. Coroner Craig opened the inquest into the deaths of Engineer Parks and Fireman Martin, killed Saturday night in the Grand Trunk railway derailment. After hearing identification evidence, the jury adjourned until Wednesday night. The broken rail was produced as an exhibit; one juryman claimed the break was surely an old one, noting the bottom of the rail was a fresh break while the neck of the T was apparently an old fracture, with bright spots that might have been made by continued friction. Superintendent Donaldson said: 'So far as we know, the break was clean and the steel perfect. No man can say how these breaks occur.' Fully 1,000 persons had paid respect to the two dead men since Sunday morning. | Ottawa Citizen 1908-02-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1908-02-20 | Vankleek Hill | An engine got off the track in the G.T.R. yard here yesterday and tied up the trains for the day. There were no morning trains at all. | Eastern Ontario Review 1908-02-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1908-02-28 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Run-offs and wrecks are almost a daily occurence on the GTR. On Wednesday a log train of sicteen cars left the track west of Golden Lake Station. | leader |
| 1908-03-10 | Casselman | Saved by a Conductor. Conductor D.P. Ward, in charge of the regular incoming passenger train from Montreal on the Grand Trunk Railway, made a thrilling rescue at Casselman. A passenger had boarded the train intending to get off at Casselman but failed to notice the station, though the trainmen had called out the next stop distinctly. The train was moving off at a good rate when he discovered his mistake and prepared to jump off backwards, likely to be thrown under the wheels. The conductor ran forward, jumped, and caught the passenger as he struck the ground, an instant before he would have rolled onto the rails. The conductor, without waiting for name or address, or stopping the train, swung onto the rear Pullman after averting a serious accident, and was warmly congratulated by the passengers for his bravery. | Eastern Ontario Review 1908-03-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1908-05-12 | Vankleek Hill | A freight train on the G.T.R. got off the track here on Tuesday evening and did not get away until Wednesday forenoon. | Eastern Ontario Review 1908-05-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1908-05-15 | Ottawa Central Station | New Central station plans submitted by G.T.R. | Ottawa Journal 1908-05-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1908-05-22 | Eganville | Messrs. Reinke & Boland this week shipped a carload of door and window frames to Algonquin Park. This is a portion of a contract received from them for the new hotel at that place and is probably the first carload of material of this nature ever shipped out of town. | Mercury 1908-05-22(Quoting the Eganville Star-Enterprise. Transcribed...) |
| 1908-06-20 | Hawkesbury Branch | Breadalbane. The wreck that occurred on the G.T.R. here on Saturday afternoon was rather more interesting than usual and attracted a large crowd of spectators from the surrounding neighborhood. | Eastern Ontario Review 1908-06-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1908-07 | Canada Atlantic Coach 6 | Not listed in ORER under CA | ORER 1908-07 |
| 1908-07 | Canada Atlantic Second Class Coach 31 | Not listed in ORER under CA | ORER 1908-07 |
| 1908-07-02 | Renfrew | The G.T.R. has men at work putting in another siding between Renfrew and Renfrew Junction. | Mercury 1908-07-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1908-07-24 | Barrys Bay | Northern Turpentine Co. factory closes. | leader |
| 1908-08-29 | Greenfield | A westbound freight train of the Canadian Atlantic, which passed Alexandria at two o'clock this afternoon, met with a mishap about two miles east of Greenfield, which derailed nine loaded cars and so damaged the tracks that traffic was tied up and the line was not cleared until Monday morning. The train was travelling at a fair speed when a rail broke, throwing the fifth car behind the engine off the tracks; eight more followed, the rails being torn up for some distance before the train could be stopped. None of the crew was injured and the cars were not badly damaged. A wrecking gang was sent out as soon as possible. Passengers were transferred at the scene of the wreck to specials sent from Ottawa and Montreal so that passenger traffic was little delayed. | Eastern Ontario Review 1908-09-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1908-09-09 | Ottawa Central Station | The contract for tearing down the old concrete and brick dwellings in the yards behind the Central station was awarded to Mr. J. Hudson of Ottawa, and work was commenced. Superintendent Donaldson said it was the intention to erect new freight sheds about where the two old buildings had stood. He had no information as to when work would resume on the baggage annex to the station, whose foundation had been laid by John Quinlan and company. | Ottawa Citizen 1908-09-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1908-09-29 | Ottawa Central Station | The baggage annex for the new G.T.R. station will be completed this fall and will be occupied for station purposes; it is hoped to have the foundation for the hotel completed before the winter puts an end to building operations. The tracks will then be moved over, the annex used as a station, and trains will start from there. | Ottawa Citizen 1908-09-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1908-12-21 | Alexandria | Struck by a Train. A valuable team of horses owned by Laughlin McKinnon of Laggan were killed by the Grand Trunk train No. 27 at the bridge east of Alexandria. McKinnon, driving home along the Laggan road, accidentally turned the horses onto the track; the Montreal train, travelling about 50 miles an hour, struck them at the bridge, where one horse had become stuck between the ties, and threw them to the river about sixty feet away. The driver jumped clear and was not injured. After the horses were struck the train backed up, but after searching for half an hour among the mangled remains and in the snow no trace of the driver could be found; he was found later by a farmer and driven home. | Eastern Ontario Review 1908-12-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-03-03 | Rockland | A fatal accident occurred here on Saturday evening when Joseph Lalonde of this place, who was employed on the G.T.R. as a section hand, got on the hand car to go a short distance down the line. In some unaccountable way the handle of the hand car struck him on the neck, and it is presumed that the force of the blow broke his neck. He was taken to his home where Dr. Desrosier attended him. In the meantime the G.T.R. engine and crew were making preparations to take him to the hospital in Ottawa, but he succumbed before he could be removed. | Ottawa Journal 1909-03-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-03-12 | Hawkesbury Branch | Through collision of a G. Trunk snow plow and an engine of the C.N.R. Quebec line on the Hawkesbury branch of the G.T.R. about half a mile out of Hawkesbury, Wednesday afternoon, plow foreman Marlow, of Coteau, lost his right arm and a boy was less seriously injured. The C.N. engine had been placing cars on the G.T. siding and was backing down to the junction switch when it struck the snow plow, wrecking it with the casualties mentioned. A wrecking gang was hurried to the scene and the wreck cleared in time to allow passage of the evening train from Glen Robertson. | Eastern Ontario Review 1909-03-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-03-12 | Coteau Junction | W.J. Finner, a fireman on the G.T.R. between Coteau and Hawkesbury, had his leg broken in an accident that occurred at Coteau on Sunday night. Finner was standing on the tender of the engine during a stop when the engine was taking water, and in some way fell to the ground, sustaining a badly broken leg. The accident, it is thought, was due to the engine suddenly starting, but it is not known if anyone was at all to blame. | Eastern Ontario Review 1909-03-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-04 | Canada Atlantic Parlour Car 203 | Renumbered GTR 2555 | Lepkey p301 |
| 1909-04-09 | Ottawa Central Station | The Ottawa City Council has requested the Government to order the G.T.R. Co. to remove a big fence placed around the property where a big Union station was to be erected by the company, but which seems to have been abandoned. | Eastern Ontario Review 1909-04-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-04-15 | Pembroke | Timely action averts wreck of G.T.R. express near Pembroke. Track had been washed away by freshets; a young man flagged the train just in time. | Ottawa Citizen 1909-04-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-04-16 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Accident averted at Shady Nook, South of Pembroke. Track undermined. | leader |
| 1909-04-19 | Rockland Branch | Floods have finished their work on the Ottawa division of the G.T.R. and on the Rockland branch, where a swollen stream carried away a culvert; the gap in the track, which was about two miles from Rockland, has been patched up and trains are running through again. Superintendent Morley Donaldson, who went to Pembroke to investigate trouble in that vicinity, found that the streams had all gone down, and there was no more danger of delay through high water. | Ottawa Citizen 1909-04-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-05-10 | Ottawa Central Station | The present stone building which has so long done duty for a central station at Ottawa will be demolished as soon as the baggage annex and power house, which is being erected now beside it, is completed. The new annex will be of concrete and brick with sandstone facings. It will be two stories high, with the upper floor being for offices and the ground floor for baggage rooms. Upon its completion the furniture and fittings of the present stone station will be moved into it and work on the new building will commence. | Ottawa Journal 1909-05-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-05-13 | Ottawa Central Station | A civic building permit for the erection of a power station and baggage annex has been taken out by the GTR at Ottawa. Work was commenced on the annex some days ago. Of the $50,000 to be expended as stated in the permit, from $10,000 to $12,000 probably will be used for relaying the tracks and work required in the yards. | Chesterville Record 1909-05-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-07 | Canada Atlantic Comabination Car 4 | Renumbered GTR 819(ii) | Lepkey p301 |
| 1909-08-17 | Barrys Bay | A mixed G.T.R. train going west was ditched by a washout near Carson Lake, a few miles beyond Barrys Bay, on Monday night at 9.15, caused by a cloudburst that undermined nearly a mile of track. The engine, tender, four loaded cars and two empties left the track and rolled down an embankment; the passenger cars did not leave the rails. Fireman W.J. Thurston of Madawaska, brother of William Thurston, a G.T.R. operator at Alexandria, was found under a car, crushed to death. Another train had passed over the spot only about an hour previously. | Ottawa Journal 1909-08-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Renfrew Mercury 1909-08-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, same collection,...) |
| 1909-08-19 | Ottawa Central Station | The first car of steel for the frame of the new G.T.R. station has arrived in the city and is being worked into the foundation of the building. It is just nine weeks ago that the first sod was turned on the site of the new station. Today the foundation walls on the north end and on portions of the east and west sides are completed; workmen were obliged to work down nearly five feet through solid rock to reach the required level. | Ottawa Journal 1909-08-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-09-01 | Ottawa Central Station | The roof of the historic old building that has served as the G.T.R. station for so long is being partially removed today. Though the roof has weathered the storms of over half a century, the workmen find the rafters and sheeting to be perfectly sound. | Ottawa Journal 1909-09-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-09-02 | Ottawa Central Station | Workmen today began tearing down the old Central depot. The excavation work is being rushed and on the hotel site men are again at work excavating for the foundations. Several tons of old railroad records are being moved today from the old G.T.R. depot building, which is being torn down; much care is being taken in the work of transferring them from the dusty files to their new receptacles in the station annex. | Ottawa Journal 1909-09-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-09-17 | Hawkesbury Branch | A young man by the name of Dufresne was killed on the G.T.R. track in Breadalbane on Wednesday afternoon. He had come into Vankleek Hill on the morning train and was walking back on the track in the afternoon. There is a big curve and a steep down grade at the point where he was killed. It was impossible to stop a heavy freight train when the fellow was seen by the engineer. His body was completely severed in two. He was about 34 years of age and unmarried. | Eastern Ontario Review 1909-09-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-10-13 | Ottawa Central Station | The stone work on the new station was started yesterday. Several cars of granite have arrived and this quantity will be used up immediately in the first course on the west side of the new building on the portion of the foundation which is now complete. The course of granite will be followed with Indiana limestone. | Ottawa Journal 1909-10-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-11-12 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Freight engine and five cars derailed near Killaloe Station. Construction crew left lorry on line. | leader |
| 1909-11-12 | Ottawa Central Station | The big derrick used in hoisting the large blocks of stone to walls of the new Central Depot smashed yesterday at about 10:20 while lifting one of the biggest blocks of stone. The derrick is gauged to lift two tons, and the stone on the cable is said to weigh about that much. | Ottawa Journal 1909-11-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-11-25 | Grand Trunk Railway | The Railway Commission recently approved of the Grand Trunk building a siding from their yards to the Chateau Laurier site, crossing the C.P.R. property at the Dufferin Bridge, to facilitate the moving of building material for the Fuller Construction Co. Work was commenced on the siding and rails were laid to the point where it was necessary to cross C.P.R. property; there the men were met by a C.P.R. constable who threatened with arrest any man who would drive a spike on the property, since official papers of the order had not yet been served. | Ottawa Journal 1909-11-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-11-26 | Moose Creek | Work is at once to be started on two new railway stations which the Grand Trunk authorities will erect. One will be at Moose Creek and the other at Heneysburg near Coteau. The foundations will be of concrete and the superstructures of wood. | Ottawa Journal 1909-11-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-12-03 | Grand Trunk Railway | The railway commission issued an order disposing of the dispute between the Canadian Pacific, Hull Electric and Grand Trunk railways over the G.T.R.'s application to build a spur line on C.P.R. property to the Chateau Laurier. The order authorized the G.T.R. to construct, maintain and operate the spur, required men to be stationed where it crosses the Hull Electric at all hours, and gave the G.T.R. the right to shift the spur to its own property at any time. The C.P.R. withdrew its objections and a gang of workmen were put to work on the spur, expected to be completed by the following Monday. | Ottawa Citizen 1909-12-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1909-12-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, same collection,...) |
| 1909-12-13 | Grand Trunk Railway | The Grand Trunk has removed the switch and rails connecting the C.P.R. with the Chateau Laurier on the complaint of the C.P.R. The arrangement as it was, was considered as interfering with the work of the C.P.R. main line. The G.T.R. will make a change which will give access to the Chateau Laurier and at the same time not interfere with the C.P.R. main line. | Ottawa Journal 1909-12-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-15 | Canada Atlantic Combination Car 2 | Renumbered GTR 997 | Lepkey p301 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 0-6-0 #1 | Renumbered GTR 2565 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 0-6-0 #2 | Renumbered GTR 2566 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 0-4-0 #3 | Renumbered GTR 2555 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 0-4-0 #4 | Renumbered GTR 2556 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 0-4-0 #5 | Renumbered GTR 2557 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #608 | Renumbered GTR 2119 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #609 | Renumbered GTR 2120 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #610 | Renumbered GTR 2121 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #611 | Renumbered GTR 2122 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-2 #618 | Renumbered GTR 1502 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-2 #619 | Renumbered GTR 1500 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-2 #620 | Renumbered GTR 1501 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #621 | Renumbered GTR 2233 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #622 | Renumbered GTR 2234 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #623 | Renumbered GTR 2235 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #624 | Renumbered GTR 2236 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #625 | Renumbered GTR 2237 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #626 | Renumbered GTR 2238 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #627 | Renumbered GTR 2239 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #628 | Renumbered GTR 2240 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-6-0 #629 | Renumbered GTR 1640 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-6-0 #630 | Renumbered GTR 1649 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-6-0 #631 | Renumbered GTR 1641 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-6-0 #632 | Renumbered GTR 1642 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-6-0 #633 | Renumbered GTR 1643 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-6-0 #634 | Renumbered GTR 1644 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-6-0 #635 | Renumbered GTR 1645 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-6-0 #636 | Renumbered GTR 1646 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-6-0 #637 | Renumbered GTR 1647 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 4-6-0 #638 | Renumbered GTR 1648 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #651 | Renumbered GTR 2342 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #652 | Renumbered GTR 2343 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #653 | Renumbered GTR 2344 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #661 | Renumbered GTR 2353 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #662 | Renumbered GTR 2354 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #663 | Renumbered GTR 2356 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #664 | Renumbered GTR 2357 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #665 | Renumbered GTR 2355 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #667 | Renumbered GTR 2358 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #668 | Renumbered GTR 2359 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #669 | Renumbered GTR 2360 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #670 | Renumbered GTR 2361 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #671 | Renumbered GTR 2362 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #681 | Renumbered GTR 2527 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #682 | Renumbered GTR 2528 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #683 | Renumbered GTR 2529 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-8-0 #690 | Renumbered GTR 1626 Class D12 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-8-0 #691 | Renumbered GTR 1636 Class D10 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-8-0 #692 | Renumbered GTR 1626 Class D12 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1910 | Canada Atlantic 2-8-0 #693 | Renumbered GTR 1627 Class D12 | Railroad History #147 |