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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1887-05-04 | Chaudiere Branch | Mr. Alex. Fleck, secretary of the Canada Atlantic Railroad, stated to a Journal reporter that the much talked of Chaudiere extension of that line would not likely be built this summer as the company are experiencing difficulty in obtaining land for the right of way and station building. | Ottawa Journal 1887-05-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1887-05-11 | Vars | An accident which might have been of a serious nature but in which, fortunately, no loss of life occurred, took place on the Canada Atlantic line yesterday about twenty miles from the city. The New York Express, due here at 10.30 a.m., was flagged to stop, a freight train consisting of forty-one cars being in front. This train had run into a hand car, the engine going off the line and being buried deep in the ditch. A general smash-up of the freight cars was the result, the engineer and fireman having a miraculous escape and being uninjured although much shaken. The passengers on the express were delayed nearly four hours awaiting a train from the city. | Ottawa Citizen 1887-05-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1887-05-17 | Unidentified Locomotives 0 | Locomotive No. 6 of the C.A.R., which was considerably damaged over a year ago by a mishap, will be ready for use again on June 10th, when the Central Vermont engine at present in use will be returned. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-05-17(No unit entity exists on the site for 'No. 6', so ...) |
| 1887-05-17 | Unidentified Locomotives 0 | The locomotive which was recently overturned and buried by the accident on the Canada Atlantic railway at Moose Creek was raised yesterday and brought to the city last night, to be repaired at the shops. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-05-17(Not identified by number in the source, so filed a...) |
| 1887-05-20 | Aubrey | Train order: Do not exceed 4 mph from Johnsons to water tank and run very cautiously from tank to Aubrey. Do not exceed 3mph over English River or Chateaugay bridges. | MerrileesMG31 Volume 1, File 7 |
| 1887-05-20 | Johnsons / Barrington | Train order: Do not exceed 4 mph from Johnsons to water tank and run very cautiously from tank to Aubrey. Do not exceed 3mph over English River or Chateaugay bridges. | MerrileesMG31 Volume 1, File 7 |
| 1887-05-21 | Chaudiere Branch | It is understood that at the meeting of the Directors of the Canada Atlantic Railway to be held on the 31st inst. the Chaudiere extension question will come up for discussion, the right of way having, it is stated, been amicably settled between the company and the property owners. | Ottawa Citizen 1887-05-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1887-05-28 | Unidentified Passenger Cars | The Canada Atlantic railway company will add to their rolling stock some magnificent new passenger coaches which will arrive on the 29th inst. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-05-28(No numbers or names given, so filed against the un...) |
| 1887-05-30 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | General Manager Chamberlin, of the Canada Atlantic Railway, invited some friends to an excursion down the road: the facilities of the line for affording a day's outing from the city. To the regular morning express leaving the Elgin St. Station at 8 a.m. was attached a special car, on board of which a party of twenty ladies and gentlemen made themselves comfortable. At Coteau the excursion was joined by friends from St. Albans, Vt., and elsewhere. Taking the company's little steamer Anderson, the party steamed across the rapid current to Clark's Island, opposite Valleyfield, then down the St. Lawrence rapids to the mouth of the Beauharnois canal -- through the Coteau, Cedars and Cascade rapids -- and back up the canal, with a stage from Melocheville to visit Besson point, before rejoining the steamer and catching the Ottawa train at Coteau at 5:40 p.m. | Ottawa Journal 1887-05-30(The steamer 'Anderson', described as the company's...) |
| 1887-06 | Canada Atlantic Flat 100-298 even numbers | {100-264}: 73 listed | ORER 1887-06 |
| 1887-06 | Canada Atlantic Box 103-123 | {103,107,109,113,123} listed | ORER 1887-06 |
| 1887-06 | Canada Atlantic Box 1100-1199 | 100 listed | ORER 1887-06 |
| 1887-06 | Canada Atlantic Box 11100-11199 | 100 listed | ORER 1887-06 |
| 1887-06 | Ottawa & Boston Lumber Line Box 2000-2699 | 200 listed in {2000-2199} | ORER 1887-06 |
| 1887-06 | Canada Atlantic Flat 300-326 even numbers | 14 listed | ORER 1887-06 |
| 1887-06 | Canada Atlantic Box 3000-3449 | 500 listed | ORER 1887-06 |
| 1887-06 | Canada Atlantic Box 551-650 | 100 listed | ORER 1887-06 |
| 1887-06 | Canada Atlantic Box 7900-7999 | 100 listed | ORER 1887-06 |
| 1887-06 | Canada Atlantic Box 900-999 | 100 listed | ORER 1887-06 |
| 1887-06 | Canada Atlantic Box 9000-9099 | 100 listed | ORER 1887-06 |
| 1887-06 | Canada Atlantic & Central Vermont Box 5050-5799 | 250 listed in {5050-5299} | ORER 1887-06 |
| 1887-06 | Canada Atlantic & Central Vermont Box 8750-8999 | 250 listed | ORER 1887-06 |
| 1887-06 | Canada Atlantic Caboose | {CA 1,101,105,111,115,117} listed | ORER 1887-06 |
| 1887-06 | Canada Atlantic Coach 1 | listed as coach in ORER | ORER 1887-06 |
| 1887-06 | Canada Atlantic Combination Car 2 | Listed in ORER | ORER 1887-06. |
| 1887-06 | Canada Atlantic Combination Car 3 | listed in ORER | ORER 1887-06 |
| 1887-06-01 | Chaudiere Branch | Extract from C.A.R. directors meeting: the Chaudiere extension of the road will at once be commenced and finished as soon as possible, the proposed extension being considered a very valuable one. | Ottawa Citizen 1887-06-01(The same annual directors' meeting is also reporte...) |
| 1887-06-01 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The annual meeting of the Directors of the Canada Atlantic Railway Company took place yesterday afternoon at Mr. J.R. Booth's office. The report of the Directors for the past year was considered highly satisfactory and financial returns for the six months from 1st September last showed an advance of 60 per cent over the corresponding six months of last year. The increase in the traffic had been so great that it was recommended that 2,000 new cars be placed on the road. Should the traffic continue to increase in the way it has done the directors will consider the advisability of constructing a double track. The following directors and officers were elected for the current year: D.C. Linsley, President; G.H. Perley, Vice-President; Wm. Anderson, C.B. Powell, C.J. Booth, E.C. Smith, Guy C. Noble, directors. | Ottawa Citizen 1887-06-01(The same meeting also discussed the Chaudiere exte...) |
| 1887-06-01 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | In the report of the directors of the Canada Atlantic Railway, the docks at Coteau Landing and Clark's Island are said to be in a fair state of progress and will be pushed forward to completion as rapidly as possible. | Ottawa Journal 1887-06-01(From the same annual directors' meeting as the ful...) |
| 1887-06-04 | Unidentified Passenger Cars | The Canada Atlantic Railroad company have ordered two fine first class passenger coaches from the Pullman Car company of Chicago, beautifully furnished in plush and mahogany, expected to arrive in the city about the middle of June. The company are also buying several new cars from Messrs. Crossen & Co., four of the best constructed cars in Canada. | Ottawa Journal 1887-06-04(No numbers or names given, so filed against the un...),Ottawa Free Press 1887-06-06(Corroborating report two days later naming the sam...) |
| 1887-06-10 | Chaudiere Branch | Uniting the roads: the purchase of the Aylmer branch of the Canadian Pacific by the Pontiac Railway Co. revives the scheme of bridging the Ottawa to the east of the Suspension bridge, by the Canada Atlantic, making a connection with the Pontiac road and the prospective Gatineau Valley road. In the charter granted the Canada Atlantic, permission is given to build a bridge across the Ottawa. Plans of this new structure have been made and the work will commence as soon as the transfer of the Aylmer branch takes place. The bridge, it is understood, will be both a railway and a passenger bridge. By the junction of the two roads at Hull, the Canada Atlantic will be able to tap the Ottawa Valley and the Pontiac people will have a short route to Montreal and the east. A new depot is also spoken of in connection with the prospect. | Ottawa Journal 1887-06-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1887-06-20 | Ottawa | The C.A.R. are putting down a new siding from the main line at Bronson's lumber yards. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-06-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1887-06-20 | Coteau Junction | The new brick station house at Coteau will be completed by Monday next. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-06-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1887-06-20 | Unidentified Locomotives 0 | Seven new locomotives have been placed on the C.A.R. within a short time past. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-06-20(No numbers given, so filed against the unidentifie...) |
| 1887-06-20 | Unidentified Locomotives 0 | Engine No. 6 of the Canada Atlantic has now been thoroughly repaired and made its trial trip satisfactorily on Saturday night. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-06-20(Follow-up to the 1887-05-17 report that No. 6 woul...) |
| 1887-06-23 | The Central Counties Railway Company | Incorporated as Prescott County Railway Co. by Canada Act 50-51 V Chap 82 | CNRHist |
| 1887-07 | Canada Atlantic Comabination Car 4 | Built by Pullman | Lepkey p301 |
| 1887-07 | Canada Atlantic Coach 6 | Built by Pullman | Lepkey p301 |
| 1887-07-07 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | EMPLOYEES' EXCURSION -- The Canada Atlantic Railway contemplate giving their employees a free excursion to Valleyfield on the 23rd. The services of Barratt's band have already been engaged for the occasion. | Ottawa Citizen 1887-07-07(The excursion that took place on the 23rd (filed s...) |
| 1887-07-14 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Description of a press excursion to Montreal over the Canada Atlantic to Coteau and then through the St. Lawrence Rapids to Montreal. | Ottawa Journal 1887-07-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1887-07-22 | Unidentified Locomotives 0 | Mr. Chamberlain, general manager of the Canada Atlantic railway, expects a complete new train of cars for the Montreal service at the end of the month. This company, with their usual enterprise, are making very large additions to their rolling stock. They have recently received six new engines and are sending out orders for more. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-07-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1887-07-22 | Unidentified Passenger Cars | The Canada Atlantic Railroad Co. expect a new train of passenger cars, which were ordered about three months ago, to arrive in the city by the 18th of August. The cars will be among the finest ever turned out by the Crossen Car Co. of Coburg. | Ottawa Journal 1887-07-22(No numbers given, so filed against the unidentifie...) |
| 1887-07-23 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The first annual picnic of the employees of the Canada Atlantic Railway company left the Elgin Street Station (picking up more at the Chaudiere and other stations en route) bound for Clarke's Island, near Coteau Landing, with about 800-1000 excursionists and Barrett's band. At Alexandria several of the male excursionists ran an impromptu race from the train to McDonald's hotel and back, dubbed a 'Scott Act race' by onlookers. At Coteau Landing the party boarded the steamer 'Transfer' for the island. Clarke's Island, 'thousands of acres in extent', is the property of the C.A.R. Co., who intend making it a summer resort by building a large hotel and a track for races and sports. The day included baseball, lacrosse, dancing and other sports. On the way home a Mrs. Hill was taken ill from the heat and seen by a doctor at Coteau, with no danger found. The train reached Ottawa without further incident, the excursion judged an unbounded success. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-07-23(Brief same-day departure notice. Transcribed by Co...),Ottawa Journal 1887-07-25(Detailed account: 13 cars, about 800 excursionists...),Ottawa Citizen 1887-07-25(Detailed account naming the departure from Chaudie...) |
| 1887-07-27 | Ottawa | A cow was struck by a yard locomotive of the Canada Atlantic railway last evening. The animal met its death at the rock cut west of Bank street. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-07-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1887-08-03 | Unidentified Passenger Cars | The Canada Atlantic Railway has two new passenger cars en route from Pullman. | Ottawa Citizen 1887-08-03(No numbers given, so filed against the unidentifie...) |
| 1887-08-05 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | It is understood that the Canada Atlantic has completed the necessary financial arrangements for bridging the St. Lawrence at Coteau, and the work will be proceeded with immediately. | Almonte Gazette 1887-08-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1887-08-10 | Chaudiere Branch | The rails for the Chaudiere extension of the C.A.R. have arrived and the line will be completed this fall. A handsome new station will be built on the Flats and it is probable that a considerable amount of freight will be despatched from the new Headquarters. The offices will also be removed. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-08-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1887-08-17 | Unidentified Passenger Cars | The Canada Atlantic Railroad Company have ordered from the Wagner Car Company a fine train of passenger cars, arriving about the 25th. The first class cars are inlaid with rosewood and cherry and will be lighted by electric light, eighteen incandescent lights in each car -- the first train of cars in Canada to be so lighted. Each sleeper will also carry a light on its platform, dark by default but switched on by the conductor when the train stops at a station, to prevent accidents from passengers alighting in the dark. For this train the company have sent to the Krupp works in Germany for a new style of wheel claimed never to break. | Ottawa Journal 1887-08-17(No numbers or names given, so filed against the un...) |
| 1887-09-06 | Elgin Street | The Canada Atlantic Railroad company are having a large number of their box freight cars repainted and lettered anew. The work is being done in the car sheds, at the Elgin street depot. | Ottawa Journal 1887-09-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1887-09-11 | Chaudiere Branch | Mr. G.A. Mountain, engineer of the Canada Atlantic Railway, has completed plans for the extension of that company's line across the Ottawa river to Hull. The extension has been surveyed and definitely located from the corner of the Richmond road and Broad street to the square off Bridge street, where Ahearn & Co.'s blacksmith shop now stands -- giving the company an entrance into all the lumber yards on the Chaudiere, with the further desire to reach the yards of the E.B. Manufacturing Company and Messrs. Hurdman and Co. on the Hull side. Mr. Mountain's plans are for the construction of the line to the Ontario shore back of McKay & Co.'s flour mills, then an iron truss bridge across the river from a point about one hundred feet below the present Suspension bridge to the Quebec shore. It is hoped that before next fall the Ottawa river will be dredged and the line completed into the city of Hull. It is rumored that the real object of the Company in bridging the Ottawa is to connect their line with the Pontiac & Pacific Junction Railway at Hull, so as to compete for western freight business toward Sault Ste. Marie; failing that, the Canada Atlantic would run their line to Aylmer to make the connection there. | Ottawa Journal 1887-09-11(Churcher's own transcription flags '(Date may be w...) |
| 1887-09-21 | Elgin Street Fuel | The C.A.R. are procuring a new patent coal crane from the United States for use in hoisting fuel at the Elgin street station on locomotive tenders. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-09-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...),Ottawa Citizen 1887-09-22(Same procurement reported the next day: 'Coal Cran...) |
| 1887-09-21 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #1 Glengarry | Locomotive No. 1 has been sold by the Canada Atlantic railway to the Montreal and Sorel R.R. and will be fitted up in the shops before being sent to the latter road. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-09-21(One of five locomotives (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7) so...) |
| 1887-09-21 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #2 Ottawa | Locomotive No. 2 has been sold by the Canada Atlantic railway to the Montreal and Sorel R.R. and will be fitted up in the shops before being sent to the latter road. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-09-21(One of five locomotives (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7) so...) |
| 1887-09-21 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #3 Coteau | Locomotive No. 3 has been sold by the Canada Atlantic railway to the Montreal and Sorel R.R. and will be fitted up in the shops before being sent to the latter road. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-09-21(One of five locomotives (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7) so...) |
| 1887-09-21 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #4 Casselman | Locomotive No. 4 has been sold by the Canada Atlantic railway to the Montreal and Sorel R.R. and will be fitted up in the shops before being sent to the latter road. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-09-21(One of five locomotives (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7) so...) |
| 1887-09-21 | Unidentified Locomotives 0 | Two locomotives of the C.A.R. have been sent to St. Albans, Vt. for repairs. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-09-21(No numbers given, so filed against the unidentifie...) |
| 1887-09-21 | Unidentified Locomotives 0 | Three new locomotives, constructed in Providence R.I., have arrived for use on the Canada Atlantic. One is a shifting engine, and the other two will be used on the main line -- the former will be placed on the eastern division and the latter on the western division. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-09-21(No numbers given, so filed against the unidentifie...) |
| 1887-09-21 | Canada Atlantic 7 | Locomotive No. 7 has been sold by the Canada Atlantic railway to the Montreal and Sorel R.R. and will be fitted up in the shops before being sent to the latter road. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-09-21(One of five locomotives (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7) so...) |
| 1887-09-21 | Canada Atlantic 8 | The old 'No. 8', the cab of which was burned off accidentally at Coteau Landing, will hereafter be known as locomotive 'A'. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-09-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1887-09-27 | Eastmans | NARROW ESCAPE. Part of a Canada Atlantic train derailed and burned. Bush fires had injured the track near Eastman's Springs; the 4:50 p.m. express to Montreal, composed of an engine and tender, baggage car, smoker and mail car, second class car, a first class car and a Pullman, was derailed when the fire-loosened rails spread under it. The cars left the track and settled on their sides but did not overturn completely; dense smoke and nearby bush fire flames prevailed. The engine, tender and baggage car cleared the break, but the Pullman, first class, second class, mail and smoking cars, lying beside the track, caught fire within minutes and were completely burned. The roughly one hundred passengers escaped via the caboose of a following freight train, which had been flagged to stop. A special train with three doctors and stretchers was sent from Ottawa. Mail clerk Wm. Browne saved twenty-seven mail bags, about twelve being burned with the car. No passengers were seriously injured, though all were shaken up; Sir Adolph Caron was among the passengers in the Pullman, and an old man named Berraux from Vaudreuil was slightly cut about the hand. The line was cleared and the torn-up track re-laid; the up train from Montreal, due the previous evening, remained at Alexandria overnight and proceeded up the next morning. | Ottawa Journal 1887-09-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...),Almonte Gazette 1887-09-30(Corroborating weekly report of the same derailment...) |
| 1887-09-27 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Mr. J. Logan, yard foreman of the C.A.R., says the bush in the vicinity of Wood Station, about 34 miles down the line, is all on fire, with the flames only a quarter of a mile from the station wood yard. He attributes the burning of the ties at the scene of the late accident to a wind that sprang up that afternoon. The whole country between Navan and Bearbrook Crossing was reported literally on fire, fifty men guarding property near Navan, and hundreds of acres of the best woods destroyed for fourteen miles. | Ottawa Journal 1887-09-28(Follows up the 1887-09-27 Eastman's Springs derail...) |
| 1887-10-01 | Unidentified Passenger Cars | The four cars recently burned on the C.A.R. have been replaced by others from the Grand Trunk railway. In a day or two the company will run a train lit by electric light. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-10-01(Replacement for the cars burned in the 1887-09-27 ...),Ottawa Citizen 1887-10-01(Same replacement reported the same day: 'The Canad...) |
| 1887-10-01 | Ottawa | J.R. Booth is extending his piling ground in the vicinity of Rochesterville, and a siding is being put into it from the C.A. Ry. | Canada Lumberman 1887-10-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1887-10-03 | Chaudiere Branch | Canada Atlantic Extension: the arbitration case between the Canada Atlantic Railway and Dr. Hill in reference to the value of Dr. Hill's property on the Richmond Road is being continued. As soon as the case is settled the case of Canada Atlantic Railway and Higginson will come up, to fix a price on property adjoining Dr. Hill's, and then the company will have the right of way settled until they reach Britannia avenue where another arbitration case with Messrs. Grier & Bronson will come up. A prominent official said as soon as the company have the right of way secured, and the arbitration cases finished, construction of the extension will be commenced. The line will run from the end of the present track on Broad street, along the waterworks aqueduct, crossing it between Lett and Lloyd streets, along the north side of the aqueduct to Queen Street West, crossing that street at the north end of Pooley's Bridge, through the yard of the Waterworks Press House, crossing Britannia Avenue, to the lot near the corner of Britannia Avenue and Bridge street. The station house, the termination of the extension, will be constructed on the property now occupied by T. Ahearn's blacksmith shop; branch lines will run into all the lumber yards. It is also the intention of the company to do away with the small passenger station on Broad street, and use the new station house on Bridge street as a central passenger and freight depot for the Chaudiere and Hull. Asked about bridging the Ottawa, a company official said: 'That is in the future... It is possible that the Ottawa will be bridged, or at least that the line will be run into E.B. Eddy's lumber yards, but nothing definite is known of that as yet.' | Ottawa Journal 1887-10-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1887-10-10 | Chaudiere Branch | For years the lumbermen of the Chaudiere have had the utmost difficulty in securing suitable piling grounds, until a short time ago the Canada Atlantic Railway Company decided to extend their line to the Chaudiere. The line of the Canada Atlantic Extension extends from the Elgin street depot around the outskirts of the city in a semi-circle over considerable high ground to a point near the Richmond Road and the Union Depot. As soon as the arbitration cases now pending are over, and the right of way settled, the Extension will be continued to the corner of Bridge street and Victoria Avenue on the Chaudiere where a large station house will be erected. From this station house a series of switch lines will be built into all the lumber yards and into each mill, so that flat cars can be run right up to the various mills and the lumber drawn by yard locomotives over the line to points between the present Richmond Road station and the Elgin street depot. The lumber firms, including Messrs. J.R. Booth, Perley & Pattee, Bronson & Weston, and others, have secured large piling grounds along the line of the railway from the Elgin Street depot to the Richmond Road station, in which they are now placing switch lines. | Ottawa Journal 1887-10-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1887-11-01 | Chaudiere Branch | Mr. Mountain, who has charge of the extension of the Canada Atlantic to the Chaudiere, has started a gang of men to build the line across Dr. Hill's property, recently obtained by arbitration for $10,000. As this portion runs through a swamp it will be necessary to construct an embankment ten feet high. | Ottawa Citizen 1887-11-01(The Citizen names the engineer 'Mr. J.A. Morrison'...),Ottawa Free Press 1887-11-02(Same work reported the next day: 'begun by a gang ...) |
| 1887-11-03 | Elgin Street | An immense storage shed, 100 feet long by 13 deep, has been constructed at the Canada Atlantic railway station by the Samuel Rogers Oil company. It has a capacity of holding one thousand barrels. | Ottawa Free Press 1887-11-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1887-11-03 | Canada Atlantic Parlour Car Cassandra | Ottawa Citizen, 1887-11-02: the new electric train ready for inspection at the Elgin Street station, cars 'Cassandra' and 'Feorenza' [sic]; a postscript notes the exhibit was seen the night of Nov 3, with the excursion train leaving Saturday 8 a.m., tickets $2.25. Ottawa Citizen, 1887-11-04, 'Electric Light Train': the two cars, called 'Cassandra' and 'Fivrenza' [sic], are parlour cars manufactured by Pullman -- blue velvet chairs, sliding lounge seats, raw-silk curtains, a buffet, a smoking room, incandescent electric lighting, Krupp steel-wheel trucks -- and made their first journey the day before. | Ottawa Citizen 1887-11-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...),Ottawa Citizen 1887-11-04(The detailed 'Electric Light Train' description. T...) |
| 1887-11-04 | Canada Atlantic Parlour Car Fiorenza | The Ottawa Journal's account of the same new train's debut describes it as received from Pullman: baggage car, 2nd class and smoking car, 1st class car, and drawing room car, at a cost of $36,000 exclusive of the engine, on exhibition at the Elgin Street Depot and commencing to run between Ottawa and Montreal the next day; an extra parlor car exactly the same is expected for the 4.50 train, with the Grand Trunk Railway supplying the other cars for that train by agreement. | Ottawa Journal 1887-11-04(Same debut as the Citizen's 'Cassandra'/'Fiorenza'...) |
| 1887-11-05 | Chaudiere Branch | The court of arbitration in the case of the C.A.R. Company vs. W. Higginson, over the price to be paid by the company for a right of way through some property belonging to him adjoining the property of Dr. Hill, will sit next week. | Ottawa Journal 1887-11-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1887-11-05 | Ottawa | The Canada Atlantic Railway company have completed the laying of a series of side lines through the extensive lumber yard of Messrs. Bronson & Weston at the Deep Cut and are now running the cars by locomotive between the rows of lumber piles in the yard. This work was done at considerable cost but is a great convenience. | Ottawa Journal 1887-11-05(Completion of the siding into Bronson & Weston's y...) |
| 1887-11-21 | Unidentified Freight Cars | The Canada Atlantic Railway received yesterday from the Pullman Car Company a train of thirty-two box freight cars, which form the second installment on their order for 500 cars. The new cars will be used in the lumber carrying business. | Ottawa Journal 1887-11-21(No numbers given, so filed against the unidentifie...) |
| 1887-11-21 | Sainte Justine | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company are building a new station house and other necessary buildings between Glen Robertson and St. Polycarpe. The new station will be called Newton and will be completed in a few weeks. | Ottawa Journal 1887-11-21(Filed on Sainte Justine per the operator's identif...) |
| 1887-12-01 | Chaudiere Branch | Messrs. J. R. Booth & Co. have completed laying the side tracks through the new piling grounds on the line of the extension of the Canada Atlantic Railway and the grounds are ready for use as soon as the extension is completed. | Canada Lumberman 1887-12-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1887-12-12 | Elgin Street | The Canada Atlantic have a number of men engaged at their car sheds, on Elgin street, making the winter improvements. | Ottawa Journal 1887-12-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1887-12-24 | Elgin Street | Making improvements to locomotive sheds in order to make room for two new locomotives. | Ottawa Journal. Thanks to Colin Churcher.f |
| 1887-8 | Canada Atlantic 0-6-0 #1 | Built by Baldwin as CA 1 C/N 8723 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1887-9 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0s #661-662 | Built by Rhode Island for Toledo, St.Louis & Kansas City but bought as CA 7-8 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1887-9 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #661 | Built by Rhode Island as CA 7 C/N 1838 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1887-9 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #662 | Built by Rhode Island as CA 8 C/N 1839 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1888 | Ottawa | Canada Atlantic Depot no longer listed in Ottawa City Directory at south end of Broad Street, now only a freight shed. | Jeanes20020315 |
| 1888-01-03 | Plows | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company have just received from their car shops three new snow ploughs. | Ottawa Journal 1888-01-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1888-01-12 | Unidentified Passenger Cars | Heating Cars by Steam: the Canada Atlantic Railway intend in future to heat their cars by steam. Each car will be heated from the locomotive, with pipes running along the side and a coil under each seat; rubber pipe connections between the locomotive and cars allow easy uncoupling. The Canada Atlantic is the first railway to adopt this system, which removes the danger of fire from heating stoves. | Ottawa Citizen 1888-01-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1888-01-18 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Renfrew Railway Company | WANTED, A RAILWAY FROM ARNPRIOR TO OTTAWA THROUGH THE CARP. Dr. George H. Groves of Carp says a preliminary survey is being made by Mr. Bell, C.E. of Almonte, for a short line railway between Ottawa and Arnprior, hoped to be pushed through by the Canada Atlantic railway as a feeder to their line, running from the Union Station at Ottawa to Graham's Bay, then to Arnprior via March Corners, Carp, Kinburn and Moore's Corners, within half a mile of Galetta -- about thirty miles, estimated at $15,000 a mile. Arnprior's lumber mills (McLachlin Bros., Gillies & Co.) currently pay the C.P.R. $300,000 a year for transport and would benefit from the competition; Arnprior offers a $20,000 bonus and McLachlin Bros. offer to build a $20,000 bridge across the Madawaska if the road goes ahead. The road would likely continue on to Renfrew, connecting there with the Kingston & Pembroke. | Ottawa Journal 1888-01-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1888-01-23 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Renfrew Railway Company | THE PROPOSED SHORT LINE TO ARNPRIOR. An editorial urging support for the proposed Ottawa and Arnprior railway, noting it would bring the output of the Arnprior lumber mills directly onto the Canada Atlantic railway, and that the Canada Atlantic 'has been of sufficient value to the city and shown itself to possess sufficient liberality and enterprise to entitle it to our good wishes'. The road, estimated at half a million dollars, would eventually extend beyond Arnprior to Renfrew to connect with the Kingston and Pembroke road. | Ottawa Journal 1888-01-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1888-02 | Canada Atlantic First Class Coach 9 | Built by Pullman | Lepkey p301 |
| 1888-02-06 | Saint Polycarpe | While the up train from Montreal, on the Canada Atlantic Railway, was passing St. Polycarpe last night, an unknown miscreant alongside the track hurled a stone, which shattered a pane of glass of the parlour car. The passengers got a bad scare. The railway authorities are investigating the matter. | Montreal Daily Witness 1888-02-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1888-02-10 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | A traveller's letter to the Ottawa Citizen, comparing the Canada Atlantic to lines he had ridden across Britain and North America, judged that 'for speed, comfort and luxury of travel the Canada Atlantic has no equal in Canada.' The cars, he wrote, 'are, I believe, the only cars in Canada which are heated by steam from the engine, doing away with the unsightly box stove in the corner, while the antiquated oil lamp has given place to the electric light.' He rode in the parlour car 'Casselman', costing $50 extra, and praised the porter's service. | Ottawa Citizen 1888-02-10(Signed 'Caxton'; the parlour car's name is transcr...) |
| 1888-02-10 | Plows | The Canada Atlantic Railway has just completed and put on the road a fine new snow plough which will replace the large winged plough which was badly damaged at St. Polycarpe. The new plough was made at the company's Elgin street workshops. | Ottawa Citizen 1888-02-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1888-02-11 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #610 | "The Canada Atlantic Railway Company have added a large new engine to their rolling stock. The size of the engine can be imagined from the fact that the tender carries eight tons of coal and 3,800 gallons of water. The new engine will run between Montreal and Ottawa." | Ottawa Journal. Thanks to Colin Churcher. |
| 1888-02-18 | Chaudiere Depot | On the Canada Atlantic there have been very heavy shipments of lumber. More lumber is being shipped from the Chaudiere depot than from any other shipping point in Canada. The yard is full of loaded sleds waiting for cars. | Ottawa Free Press 1888-02-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1888-02-20 | Greenfield | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company have a gang of men at work removing the lumber and freight cars ditched below Greenfield on Friday morning. The damaged cars will be brought to Ottawa and repaired in the car shops. | Ottawa Journal 1888-02-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1888-02-22 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The Ottawa mayor, in a letter urging Council to bonus or exempt from taxation the Canada Atlantic Railway's proposed new workshops rather than let them go to Valleyfield, reported that the company intends to locate the workshops at Clarke's Island (where they own 120 acres, centrally on the road, with direct coal landing by water), employing two hundred and fifty men at the outset, and noted that 'the Canada Atlantic Railway, in the very near future, will extend its line to Parry Sound' and that a bridge would shortly be erected at Coteau. | Ottawa Citizen 1888-02-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1888-02-23 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | There is quite a division of opinion with regard to whether the Canada Atlantic workshops should be bonussed by the corporation. Ald. Hutchison is firmly against anything in the shape of a bonus while Ald. Roger thinks that anything that would add to the wealth or population of the city should receive a reasonable encouragement. | Ottawa Journal 1888-02-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1888-03-01 | Elgin Street | A man was found horribly mutilated on the line at the east end of the Canada Atlantic station about midnight, killed by the express which had come in at 8.30 p.m. but not discovered until midnight; he had apparently stepped off the platform onto the rails and been struck by the car of the attached engine used to take Chaudiere passengers to their destination. The body could not be identified that night. On March 2 he was identified as Francis Deslaurier, a farmer living about eight miles from Casselman; the coroner did not consider an inquest necessary, and his family took the remains home on the noon train. | Ottawa Citizen 1888-03-01(With a follow-up dated March 2 in the same transcr...) |
| 1888-03-03 | Chaudiere Branch | Mr. E.J. Chamberlain, general manager of the Canada Atlantic Railway Company, told a Journal reporter: 'There are two more arbitrations to come off before the right of way is secured, but it is expected that the cars will be running into all the mills on this side of the river before the close of the sawing season.' | Ottawa Journal 1888-03-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1888-03-03 | St Lawrence River and Soulanges Canal Bridges | Mr. E.J. Chamberlain, general manager of the Canada Atlantic Railway Company, said the work on the bridge across the St. Lawrence River at Coteau would be started that spring: 'In fact the work has already been commenced, for a large quantity of material for the stone work of the bridge is now on the ground and men have been employed during the winter months preparing the stones.' | Ottawa Journal 1888-03-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1888-03-05 | Unidentified Freight Cars | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company have just received from the Pullman Car Company two hundred freight cars which will be used during the coming spring in the lumber carrying trade on that line. | Ottawa Journal 1888-03-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1888-03-06 | Elgin Street | It having been reported that the Canada Atlantic Railway were about to place gates on each side of their track at the foot of Elgin street and elsewhere, general manager E.J. Chamberlain told a Free Press reporter that it was not the intention of the company to place any gates on Elgin street, but when the road was running through to the Chaudiere they might place them at the crossing on Queen street; nothing definite had been decided. | Ottawa Free Press 1888-03-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1888-03-13 | Elgin Street | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company have some twenty men building sheds at their Elgin street depot for the accommodation of the new cars lately purchased by the company. | Ottawa Journal 1888-03-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |