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 structures.
| Date | Subject | Statement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1898-11-10 | Ottawa Central Station | The railway committee at yesterday afternoon's session ordered that the approaches to the Central depot should be used by all roads equally on a wheelage basis. The approaches to the Central depot were leased to the O. A. and P.S. railway, to be used as a Central depot by all roads. The O., A. and P. S. railway company demanded from the C P. R. $1,500 a month rent for the use of the station and an equal sum from the O. and N. Y. railway. ... the committee allowed the C. P.R. to cease paying rent to the O., A. and P. S. company; but to pay on a wheelage basis and to bear a proportionate share of the operation and maintenance expenses. The O. and N. Y. company if it uses the station and approaches was ordered to pay $250 a month rental to the O. A. and P.S., and also pay on a wheelage basis and bear a proportionate share of the operation and maintenance expenses. | Ottawa Journal 1898-11-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-11-10 | Ottawa Central Station | Speaking to the Citizen today, Mr. J.R. Booth stated that the new depot would be located on the site of the present one, and work would be started as soon as the militia department secured other quarters for militia stores and vacated the premises. ... The Ottawa and New York railway will commence running into the present central station as soon as the railway committee of the privy council gives its decision on the question of freight terminals. | Ottawa Citizen 1898-11-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-11-11 | Arnprior Depot | The O.A. & P.S. company has conceded to Mr. J.A. Campbell, sufficient ground near the station here for the erection of weighing scales. | Mercury 1898-11-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-11-16 | Ottawa Central Station | Mr. John R. Booth stated to The Citizen to-day that the new union station will cost in the vicinity of $130,000, plans for which are now being prepared. ... The building will be of stone and brick ... The station will extend from the present building at the canal basin over the vacant lot of land to Rideau street, with an entrance from Sapper's bridge. Trains will run into a large over-head covering in the rear of the station. The lower floor will be used for spacious waiting rooms, ticket offices and a dining hall, while the upper apartments will be used for offices of the railroad corporations. ... He fully expects to commence the work early in the spring and rush it to completion. | Ottawa Citizen 1898-11-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-11-22 | Ottawa East Roundhouse | Double bricking the round house has been completed. On account of the inconvenience arising from the lack of space in the roundhouse, five new arches will shortly be erected, making accommodation for a few more engines. | Ottawa Free Press 1898-11-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-11-22 | Ottawa East Coal Chute | The work on the coal chute will be finished this week. | Ottawa Free Press 1898-11-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-11-22 | Workshops | In the new machine shop everything is ready for the machinery, which will arrive shortly. | Ottawa Free Press 1898-11-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-11-22 | Workshops | A new additional machine shop will shortly be erected by the Canada Atlantic Railway Co. at the deep cut. The building material has arrived and work will be commenced in the course of a few weeks. This shop will be used for the repairing and cleaning of engines and will contain all the latest modern appliances for handling locomotives. | Ottawa Free Press 1898-11-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-11-22 | Repair Shop | In the new machine shop everything is ready for the machinery, which will arrive shortly. The frame work of the new repair shop is completed, and a number of men are employed sinking piles for the erection of the new hydraulic hoist. This machine will be used for lighting [sic] locomotives and will be capable of hoisting 150 tons. The company will use this shop for making and repairing engines and for the construction of all machinery to be used on the line. About forty engines are now in the shop for repair. | Ottawa Free Press 1898-11-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-11-26≥ | Hawkesbury Roundhouse | The Canada Atlantic round house at Hawkesbury was burned to the ground Wednesday night. The cause of the fire is unknown. The total loss to the company is about $10,000, of which $9,000 represents the value of one of the company's engines which was completely destroyed. (Eastern Ontario Review: 'Fire broke out in the C.A.R. round house on Wednesday ... night about nine o'clock, completely destroying the building and rendering useless the engine and tender which had just been housed a short time before ... Owing, it is supposed, to the presence of oil about the building, in an incredible short time it was completely enveloped in flames.') (As reported by 26 November 1898; the source dates the event only relatively.) | Ottawa Free Press 1898-11-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Eastern Ontario Review 1898-11-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1898-12-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-12-02 | Coteau Coal Chute | A large coal chute, similar to the one here, is being built at Coteau and will be operated by a 15 horse power gasoline engine. | Ottawa Citizen 1898-12-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-12-02 | Elgin Car Shops | The Canada Atlantic Railway company are tearing down a number of the small store rooms in the Elgin street and on their site will erect a large shop for the erection of freight cars for the spring trade. About five hundred cars will be constructed this winter. | Ottawa Citizen 1898-12-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-12-08 | Ottawa East Coal Chute | The residents of Ottawa east who have to pass along Nicholas Street at the foot of Deep Cut have a grievance against the CAR. They complain that the recently erected coal chutes are a nuisance to passers by as, when the engines are being loaded with coal the dust floats across the street and anyone who happens to be passing is covered with coal dust. A petition is in circulation for presentation to the village council to have the chutes removed. Several ladies complain that their hats and dresses have been destroyed by the falling dust from the coal. The council of 1899 will be requested to take action on the matter. | Ottawa Journal 1898-12-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-12-09 | Hawkesbury Roundhouse | The engine and tender damaged by the fire which destroyed the round house two weeks ago, has been taken to Ottawa to be repaired. It is expected that it will be on the old route again soon. | Eastern Ontario Review 1898-12-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-12-14 | Car Shops | The new carshops being built by the C.A.R. and O., A. & P.S. Railway Co. in Ottawa will be one of the largest in existence. It will have a floor space of forty acres. Electricity will be the motive power used in the works. | Lanark Era 1898-12-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-12-17 | Workshops | Work on the new Canada Atlantic buildings at the deep cut have been suspended for a few days, on account of the recent cold snap. The severe frost interfered with the work of draining the immense building. Mr. J.R. Booth, who was seen by a Free Press reporter, stated that the work would be continued in a few days. An immense heating apparatus has been ordered and as soon as this arrives work will proceed again. The work of boarding and grouting the large machinery building has been completed and the foundations for the different mechanical apparatus have been sunk. The glass for the skylights on the buildings, which has been imported from Belgium, will be here in a few days. | Ottawa Free Press 1898-12-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-12-17 | Repair Shop | The excavating for the new repair shop has been suspended on account of the frost setting in so suddenly. | Ottawa Free Press 1898-12-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-12-17 | Elgin Car Shops | At the Elgin street depot everything is in readiness for the new car shop which will be erected there, and operations will commence in a week or so. Several cars of new machinery arrived yesterday and the remainder will be here in a week or so. Considerable delay was experienced with the machinery, as special plant was required for its manufacture, and this could not be had readily. A large number of hands will be required to work on this building, as it will be rushed up without any possible delay. ... Mr. Booth, in conversation with the Free Press, said: 'Very few people realize the extent of the work now going on ... This work will employ upwards of 600 men during the winter and will be a great boon to the working classes of this city.' | Ottawa Free Press 1898-12-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-01-07 | Elgin Street Depot | At the Elgin street depot of the C.A.R. Co., operations for raising the frames of the new car shops are in full swing. About 40 men are laying the tracks into the building, which will be completed in almost a month. A portion of the old freight house has been torn away to make way for the new building. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-01-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-01-07 | Elgin Car Shops | The work of putting glass in the skylights at the car shops at the Deep Cut is almost completed, but until the apparatus for heating the building arrives no further work will be accomplished. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-01-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-01-14 | Workshops | The machinery for the new Canada Atlantic Railway shops at the deep cut has arrived, and as soon as the new heating apparatus can be placed in the building, work can resume. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-01-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-01-14 | Elgin Car Shops | The work of erecting the frame for the new car shops at the Elgin street depot will be completed by the beginning of next week. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-01-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-01-24 | Ottawa Central Station | The mystery as to what the civic railway committee discussed last week at that private meeting is not a mystery any longer. ... The scheme is one in which all the railways entering Ottawa are interested, it is nothing less than the formation of a private company which proposes to buy up the rights of the Canada Atlantic, Parry Sound, Canadian Pacific and Ottawa and New York railways to the central depot facilities, and then operate the terminal, charging each railway company according to the number of trains handled daily. ... A magnificent union depot will be erected by the Terminal Company if the scheme goes through. | Ottawa Journal 1899-01-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-01-27 | Ottawa Central Station | At the meeting of the railway and lighting committee yesterday afternoon the plans of the proposed terminal company were laid on the table by Ald. D'Arcy Scott ... It also showed the entry into the city of the other railroads along the canal reserve. ... Ald. Scott explained that at present Mr. Booth ... had no right to [handle freight] and might at any time be prohibited by the government. ... The property now occupied by Mr. Booth consists of two hundred feet along the canal bank from the head of the Deep Cut to Maria street bridge ... The following resolution was then passed by the committee: 'That this Committee is of the opinion that the formation of a terminal company ... would be of great and lasting benefit to the city of Ottawa.' | Ottawa Journal 1899-01-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1899-01-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-01-27 | Ottawa Central Station | Mr. J.R. Booth was asked today to make a statement for publication about the proposed terminal company. Mr. Booth refused to make any statement. | Ottawa Journal 1899-01-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-02-07 | Ottawa East Roundhouse | Work on the new Canada Atlantic shops at the deep cut will be recommenced this week. The heating apparatus has arrived and is being put in place. The furnace and heating plant is the largest of its class in Canada ... It will heat the round house, the car shops and the boiler makers apartments. ... Nineteen engine pits will be furnished with heat in this manner. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-02-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-02-07 | Elgin Street Depot | At the Elgin street depot the new shop is nearly completed. The walls have been grouted with concrete and men are employed tearing away the old freight sheds. The machinery for the building will arrive shortly. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-02-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-02-15 | Elgin Car Shops | The Canada Atlantic railway car shops are completed and work is started on 500 cars including grain, refrigerator and cattle cars to meet the constantly growing traffic on the Booth system. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-02-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-02-21 | Elgin Car Shops | Mr. Andrew Holland's device for acetylene locomotive headlights was given a successful test in the C.A.R. car shops last evening. Mr. Holland installed his device and compared it with a Well's kerosene burner. The test was a great success and demonstrated the superiority of acetylene gas as an illuminant particularly for locomotive headlights. ... The C.A.R. officials were delighted with the light and were well satisfied with the test. | Ottawa Journal 1899-02-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-02-24 | Car Shops | The (C.A.R.) company will shortly commence the erection of a large building for the purpose of drying the wood used in the construction of cars. The building will be fitted throughout with a system of hot air pipes. Its dimensions will be about 50x40. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-02-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-02-24 | Elgin Car Shops | A new painting machine has been adopted by the Canada Atlantic Railway for use in their work shops. By its use, a box car can be painted in from 15 to 30 minutes, while a man would take about 4 hours to do the same work. The apparatus was given a satisfactory trial yesterday by Mr. C.A. Bruyere, foreman in the C.A.R. paint shops. ... The machine will be employed by the Canada Atlantic Company on box cars, the outside of vans, and the trucks of passenger cars. | Ottawa Journal 1899-02-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-03-08 | Ottawa East Coal Chute | The residents of Ottawa East want the Canada Atlantic coal chute at the Deep Cut removed. They claim that the affair is a nuisance, from the fact that dust and smoke from it ruins everything in the vicinity, and that it is impossible to draw a loaded sleigh over the roadway there on account of the coating of coal dust on the snow. ... it is said, ruin clothing hung on the lines and property of all kinds. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-03-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-03-11 | Ottawa East Roundhouse | During the past week the new Canada Atlantic work shops at the Deep Cut have been the scene of some extensive work. ... The staff of men has been increased in the new buildings and the erection of four lines of shafting for the purpose of operating the great machines in the shops has begun. ... The Big Steam Hammer. The foundation of the immense steam hammer is being built ... The machine will be 16 feet high, and the hammer, which will weigh 12,000 lbs., will have a striking capacity of 50 tons. ... In the Rideau Round house everything presents a very busy appearance. ... Mr. Booth has decided to equip the buildings at the Elgin street depot with a similar apparatus at a cost of $3,000. A new floor has been placed in the round house ... Mr. Booth has announced his intention of placing five new stalls in the round house when spring opens. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-03-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-03-11 | Elgin Street Depot | At the Elgin street depot the car shops are nearly completed and in a week or so everything will be in readiness for the turning out of first class cars. The men in the mechanical workshops are erecting first and second class passenger coaches, fixing engines and doing general repair work in order to meet the demand for cars. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-03-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-03-14 | Workshops | The first run which the fire brigade have had in thirteen days took place yesterday afternoon to the Canada Atlantic workshops, caused by the ringing of box 134. On arriving there it was found there was a small fire in the blacksmithing part of the shops, which was put out before very much damage was done. The blaze was caused by sparks from the forge setting fire to the woodwork surrounding. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-03-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-03-31 | Ottawa Central Station | The Central Depot at Ottawa on Monday morning last presented a busy scene. There were three trains for Montreal all standing side by side. The C.A.R. left at 8.25 a.m.; the Capital Flyer on the C.P.R. at 8.30 and the C.P.R. local at 8.35. The Flyer had a sign board stating 'This train stops at Vankleek Hill, Vaudreuil and Montreal.' Many of the officials of both roads were on hand to look after their respective interests. | Eastern Ontario Review 1899-03-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-04-01 | Ottawa Central Station | The Railway Terminal Company scheme proposed by Ald. Scott some time ago, will not be carried out just yet. ... All with the exception of Sir William Van Horne of the C. P. R. expressed a willingness to meet and discuss the matter. The C. P. R. magnate however wrote that in his opinion such companies were unworkable. Ald. Scott ... wrote that as he had had a conference with Mr. Booth and found that it was Mr. Booth's intention to give all the facilities which could be given by the terminal company, it would for the present at least be as well to let the matter drop. | Ottawa Journal 1899-04-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-04-29 | Car Shops | Work in the car shops at the Rideau round house is going forward at a brisk pace. The shafting for the machinery is now all set up, and sheeting the exterior of the great building will soon be commenced. On Thursday the first engine for repairs was placed in the building. The hydraulic hoist has arrived and during the past two days the foundation and steel girders for the support of this machine have been set up. ... Yesterday the men were employed setting up an 'eye bolt' cutter. This is a most modern machine, having been patented in 1897. It is the only one of its kind in Canada. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-04-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-04-29 | Elgin Car Shops | At the Stewarton depot the machinery in the new car building shop is in full operation. The demand on the line for freight cars is increasing, and pretty extensive work is contemplated. The construction and repair of a number of fine passenger coaches is under way. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-04-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-05-12 | Workshops | Part of the machinery of the Canada Atlantic workshops at the Rideau round house was set in operation Friday. A gasoline engine of 75 horse power has been placed in the building. It will, for the present, be used to operate the tappers, drillers and other small machines. The electric wires and other apparatus will be in place by the end of next week and by that time the power house at the Chaudiere will also be finished. ... The foundations for the electrical apparatus which will be used to operate the machinery has been built and everything is ready for the introduction of the motor. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-05-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-05-20 | Workshops | At the Rideau round house the shafting for the new buildings has been set up and several heavy pieces of machinery have been added to the works. The blacksmiths' forges have all been erected and in another week will be in running order. ... Next week two extra tracks will be built into the works. The drainage system for the buildings has been laid and a gang is employed filling in the ground at the foot of the works. In the round house business is dull at present on account of the precautions taken to have the engines well repaired for the spring work. No break downs have occurred so far this season. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-05-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-05-29 | Workshops | It is understood an extension of no little proportion is shortly to be made to the new C.A.R. workshops. It will consist of about three hundred feet of additional building to the southern end of the shops. ... The erection of a building for the making of boilers is also under consideration. ... There are now five large locomotives in the shops undergoing repairs. They are taken almost wholly to pieces and the work parts being replaced by new ones. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-05-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-07-05 | Car Shops | The Canada Atlantic railway company, owing to its increasing traffic, will this fall commence the erection of large car shops in addition to those already put up. The new shops will be located near the Rideau roundhouse, where the machine shops and repair works of the company are now situated. The new buildings which have been put up this spring at the foot of Elgin street ... will be discarded after the proposed new structure at Ottawa East is up. ... Work on this will commence in the near future in time for the erection of the shops to start in November and be completed early in the spring. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-07-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-07-15 | Ottawa East Roundhouse | One of the most extensive schemes which has ever been announced in Ottawa by the Canada Atlantic railway company was started last week. ... the big steam shovel ... was brought down and placed in the company's pit at Hawthorne, where it will be used to take out gravel for the filling in of the piece of property known as the 'Gully,' situated at the Rideau round house. Work will be carried on night and day until completed. It is the intention of Mr. Booth, as soon as the gully is filled, to move the car shops which have been erected at the Elgin street depot over to the new property and there permanently situate them. Each building will be taken across the canal in sections. ... A new building of large dimensions is to be used for the finishing and polishing of fine railway coaches, will be built at the Rideau round house. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-07-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-07-15 | Elgin Car Shops | Everybody at the car works on Elgin street is busy and about seven new refrigerator and cattle cars were turned out last week. Master Mechanic James Tremble and his gang of men are erecting a new derrick near the site of the old station, and the boiler house for heating of a large lumber drying kiln, has been built. Several new pieces of track for the accommodation of freight cars are being put down, and some heavy consignments of iron for car building have been received. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-07-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-07-15 | Ottawa Central Station | Mr. Donaldson, general superintendent of the company, and his staff of train despatchers are now comfortably situated in the Central depot, having moved from Elgin street early last week. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-07-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-08-05 | Ottawa East Roundhouse | The work of filling in the gully at the Rideau yards is progressing favorably and quite an embankment of earth has been made along the eastern side of the curved Parry Sound tracks which bound the gulch on one side. According as the embankment is extended tracks will be laid along its outer edge and on these the loaded ballast trains will run and the earth will be continually dumped on the outer side extending the embankment till the whole gully has been filled. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-08-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1899-08-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-08-05 | Workshops | On Tuesday last the hydraulic lifting machinery at the C.A.R. Rideau workshops underwent a severe test when one of the largest compound engines was raised off the rails to repair the trucks. The monster locomotive, No. 693, which weighs 120 tons, was raised about four feet and the wheels removed for repairs. ... There are in the Rideau round-house ten of the most modern type of locomotives turned out by the Baldwin works. ... These engines are valued at about $11,500 each. They are too high to pass under what is called the St. Anne's bridges, but this structure is being rebuilt to accommodate the passage of the new locomotives. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-08-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-08-05 | Workshops | The company are filling around the new shops. At the lower end of Ottawa East the ground is being levelled and filled in, and new lines of tracks laid. This will greatly relieve the pressure in the city yards. The mechanical shops are also very busy preparing the iron work for the new cars. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-08-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-08-21 | Ottawa Central Station | To facilitate the movement of freight between the Union depot and the Sussex street station the C.P. Railway Co. has decided to build a short line across the country on the east side of the Rideau River. ... It will then skirt away from the river till it reaches a point on the Montreal and Ottawa railway near the junction of that road and the Ottawa and New York railway. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-08-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-08-25 | Ottawa East Roundhouse | The men in the C.A.R. railway company's Ottawa East car shops and round house in Ottawa East, are very busy at present. Work has commenced on the addition to the round house, made necessary by the increased traffic. This building when completed will provide accommodation for eleven engines: the present building houses nineteen. ... Workmen are also busy installing a system of incandescent lighting in the round house. ... About three hundred men are employed in the roundhouse and shops. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-08-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-08-26 | Elgin Car Shops | The Canada Atlantic railway will not rebuild the car shops at the foot of Elgin street which were destroyed by fire a few weeks ago. The new shops erected this summer at Ottawa East and Stewarton will provide adequate accommodation and facilities for manufacturing purposes for the present. It is proposed to commence the construction of another large building at Ottawa East adjoining the round house and when the structure is completed the one at Stewarton will be rented for a manufactory or used for general storage purposes. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-08-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-09-01 | Ottawa East Roundhouse | Building operations on the large addition being erected at the C.A. railway round house are being pushed ahead rapidly. All the nine pits have been dug and the foundation timbers are being laid. Lumber is on the ground and work will be commenced on the frame in the course of a week. The six new locomotives already received at the Ottawa East round house from the Baldwin iron works, Philadelphia, have been fitted up by an expert sent ahead from the works. The six have been given their trial run and found satisfactory. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-09-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-09-09 | Stores and Instruction Building | Plans have been drawn up for the new supply building and instruction offices to be erected by the C.A. railway company near the Rideau round house. The building will be a three storey one and part of it will be fitted up as a school of instruction. ... Apartments will also be fitted up for the use of the draughtsmen. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-09-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1899-09-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-09-09 | Ottawa East Roundhouse | The work on the new round house is being rushed so as to have it ready by this fall. The present round house is not large enough to contain the engines now on the road. The new addition will provide accommodation for nineteen engines. The shops are busy turning out new cars and have enough work on hand to keep them busy for the entire fall and winter. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-09-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-09-22 | Workshops | Mr. E. A. Wallberg, of New York, has just closed a contract with Mr. J. R. Booth to equip the C. A. railway locomotive repair shops with the fan system of heating and ventilation. This is the system that has already been introduced with successful results into the car shops and round house. The new plant will, however, be much larger than the present ones. ... The two dynamos with which these works will be equipped are of the most powerful build. Work has commenced on the erection of the power house and it will be rushed to completion. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-09-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-09-23 | Ottawa East Roundhouse | The superstructure of the addition to the round house is now being erected and it is expected it will be completed by the first of November. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-09-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-09-30 | Elgin Car Shops | The Canada Atlantic railway is turning out from 16 to 20 freight cars per week from its shops at the bottom of Elgin street. The facility with which the cars are manufactured is surprising and is accounted for largely by the experienced hands and the most improved machinery that is employed. ... Motive power for the shops is now furnished by electricity and it is working most satisfactory. A three hundred horsepower motor has just been placed in position in the Rideau roundhouse. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-09-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-09-30 | Ottawa Central Station | Work will start on new Central Depot as soon as Militia stores is vacated - More with drawing. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-09-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-09-30 | Stores and Instruction Building | The C.A.R. will very shortly commence the erection of a large building adjoining the Rideau roundhouse. It will be 200 feet in length and thirty feet wide with two stories in one portion of it. The building will be used as a storehouse replacing the one destroyed by fire some time ago and will also contain the offices of Mr. Ogilvie and his assistants. A new track will be put in from the main line of the road to the new warehouse. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-09-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-10-06 | Stores and Instruction Building | Yesterday the Canada Atlantic Railway company commenced the erection of a large two and a half story building at Ottawa East running parallel with the Parry Sound tracks, which is to be used as an extension of the shops. ... it will contain the general stores for the road, an instruction office, a dining room for the men who take lunch at the works and the mechanical office. ... As soon as the building is completed the mechanical office, now at Stewarton, will be removed to the new building. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-10-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-10-07 | Ottawa East Roundhouse | Work is progressing favorably on the large extension being built to the C.A. railway round house. All the ten engine pits have been completed, and the foundation timbers put in place. Six fire walls are being built, running the full length and height of the building. ... A jetty has also been built at the coal chute near the end of the deep cut. This will accommodate the city fire engines. ... A new turret lathe has just been installed in the machine shop. ... The C.A.R. is rebuilding the old Parry Sound Colonization Railway cars that stood for a long time on the north side of the canal. They will be used to store supplies, etc. These cars are the pioneer ones of the road. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-10-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-10-07 | Workshops | Work has also commenced on the extension being built to the machine shop. This will be 150 feet in length, the site being provided for by the land filled in during the summer. A large pile driver has been placed in position and will be used in the foundation work. ... A new turret lathe has just been installed in the machine shop. It is used in the manufacture of bolts and has the capacity of four ordinary machines. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-10-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-10-07 | Workshops | Canada Atlantic Railway workshops in Ottawa East will next week be fitted out with additional new machinery costing over $10,000. ... A machine known as a turret lathe for making bolts has recently been placed in the shops ... Another addition to the establishment is an apparatus known as a 'bull-dozer' ... The transfer table in the shops for moving locomotives under repair from any one place to another is operated by electricity. This is the only table in Canada that is worked by such a method. About 180 men are now in the shops. | Ottawa Journal 1899-10-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-10-24 | Casselman Depot | Mr. Coupel has just entered upon his contract to supply the tank with water. This is a new arrangement as up to the present the company have had their own pump house engineer. Mr Lisle Rice, who has had charge of the C.A.R. pumphouse here for several years leaves for Ottawa this week, where he intends taking up the machinist trade, He will work in the C.A.R. shops there. Mr Dewar who has been in town for the last three months superintending C.A.R. works, has left, the work having been completed. | Eastern Ontario Review 1899-10-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-10-28 | Workshops | A new wheel lathe the largest in Canada, is being erected at the shops. The superstructure of this new addition is complete and the men are now engaged in putting on the gravel roof. It was hardly expected that the superstructure would be up before the snow fell, but owing to the lack of space the work was rushed to completion and the engines will be housed there next week. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-10-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-11-17 | Eganville Depot | The O.A. & P.S. railway company, not having room for the amount of freight handled, have commenced the erection of an addition to the freight shed at the depot here. It is our opinion that if the C.P.R. does not build a station here the O.A. & P.S. shed, even with the addition now being added, will not be able to hold all the freight. | Mercury 1899-11-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-11-28 | Ottawa Central Station | The C.P.R. has acquired a right of way along Patterson's Creek, and it is said to be their intention to build a branch line from Rochesterville to Ottawa East ... It is suggested that some steps be taken to have the C. A. R. and C. P. R. use the bed of the creek on equal terms and that the present right of way owned by the C. A. R. be disposed of. ... The C. P. R., it is said, has been negotiating with the C. A. R. to secure the right to run over their tracks. | Ottawa Journal 1899-11-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-11-29 | Ottawa Central Station | Mr. C.W. Spencer, general superintendent of the C. P. R., is in the city negotiating with the C. A. R. with a view to securing either a right of way alongside the C. A. R.'s right of way in Stewarton or else the right to use the latter company's tracks from the Chaudiere to Ottawa East. In the event of a failure to reach an agreement the C P. R. will proceed to build a line along the bed of Patterson's Creek. | Ottawa Journal 1899-11-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-12-01 | Ottawa Central Station | A number of recent transfers of considerable blocks of property in the south end led to inquiry, the result of which is to show that the C. P. R. evidently means business in its scheme to connect the Montreal and Ottawa short line by a branch across the city, with the C. P.R. main line. ... The contention of the C. P.R. people is that they were induced to acquire this independent right of way through the failure of negotiations with the Canada Atlantic company for the use of the Parry Sound line between the Central depot and the C. P. R. track, near Mechanicsville. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-12-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-12-02 | Ottawa Central Station | Mr. George E. Kidd, the barrister, has a bright idea to solve the difficulty of level crossings in connection with the entrance of the C.P.R. He suggests that the line be extended from the connection at Dow's Lake along Centre street to the Exhibition Grounds. ... Mr. Kidd says the Canada Atlantic Company should be forced to go in that direction also and remove its tracks from the heart of the city. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-12-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-12-04 | Ottawa Central Station | During the month of November there were registered with Commissioner Pratt 59 transfers of land. Nearly all of these involved comparatively small amounts, the chief one being a parcel of land east of Bank street and lying to the north of Patterson's creek, belonging to Mr. H.C. Monk, which was sold to the C.P.R. for $16,500. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-12-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1899-12-16 | Golden Lake Depot | Work has commenced on the erection of a new station at Golden Lake on the Parry Sound division of the C.A.R. It is now the junction of the main line and the Pembroke Southern Railway, which was taken over some time ago by the C.A.R. and is being operated very successfully. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-12-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-01-05 | Ottawa Central Station | Hintonburg residents are uneasy over the fact that Mr. J.J. Morris of Pembroke, with his assistants, has been engaged in surveying through the center of the village. The survey is said to be in connection with the C.P.R. and the proposed track will run from the C.P.R. west of Queen street, southeast, and then near Concession street, turn straight east and run across the south of the city, either by Patterson's creek or by some one of the streets running east and west to the Central station. The C.P.R. is apparently determined to bring the western passenger trains into the heart of the city in order to compete with the C.A.R. system. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-01-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-01-13 | Car Shops | At the car shops all the new machinery has been placed in position. The machinery is run by electricity. The shops have started up again and are turning out three and four box cars a day. At present the shops are busy fitting up the cars to convey the horses of D battery to Halifax. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-01-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-01-13 | Ottawa East Roundhouse | The work on the new round house has been completed. The filling in at Ottawa East and the extension of the yards has been suspended until the spring. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-01-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-01-13 | Ottawa Central Station | The work at the new freight sheds and offices is now all but completed and it is expected they will be ready for occupation within a couple of weeks. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-01-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-01-13 | Ottawa Central Station | Very early Monday morning the men will depart from the Exhibition grounds, with all their baggage and guns. These with the horses they will bring to the Elgin street depot and will pack upon special cars that will be waiting for them. Then the men will form up and will march in Elgin street direct to the Central depot. ... The military train, which will consist of seventeen or eighteen cars in all, is timed to leave at ten o'clock. | Ottawa Journal 1900-01-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-01-15 | Ottawa Central Station | The men numbered about one hundred and seventy, and the horses one hundred and thirty-seven. ... The battalion marched out the Elgin street gate and along that road to the Elgin street depot, where the horses were loaded. ... The horses were nervous at the noise of the trains and many of them refused to go into the cars at all. ... But the horses were loaded at last, sixteen to a car. | Ottawa Journal 1900-01-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-01-15 | Ottawa Central Station | Special train takes volunteers for the Boer War. Major Hurdman. Full account. Fifteen car train bound for Halifax. (Ottawa Journal, same date: the arrangements at the Central depot 'to prevent too great a crush around the men were excellent. A long double line of heavy ropes were extended along the centre of the depot platform.') | Ottawa Citizen 1900-01-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1900-01-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-01-20 | Ottawa Central Station | It is said Patterson Creek route will be adopted by CPR. | Ottawa Journal 1900-01-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-01-27 | Graham Bay Station | The CAR has commenced the erection of a new station at Graham's Farm on the Richmond Road where the line crosses that thoroughfare. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-01-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-02-21 | Ottawa Central Station | While the C.P.R. has its right of way practically all purchased for an entrance across the city by Patterson Creek to the Central depot, on certain properties they had only an option. The company last week renewed the options for a further period. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-02-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-02-27 | Ottawa Central Station | Another route now proposed by CPR for reaching Central Depot. ... A route on the south side of the canal has been sized up and a survey is being made. ... The canal would be crossed somewhere about where the present bridge on the Prescott line, or to the east of it, and a route taken through what is known as Wyoming Park. Bank Street road would be crossed at a point between the swing bridge and Billings Bridge. The line would skirt Ottawa East and strike the present line along the canal bank about the head of Nicholas Street. | Ottawa Journal 1900-02-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-03-12 | Ottawa Central Station | At the station there was an immense crowd and the enthusiasm was of a most demonstrative character. Thousands of loyal citizens cheered the western horsemen. ... The men were accommodated by two trains, especially arranged by the Canadian Pacific officials ... The first train pulled out sharp at 10.30 o'clock amidst thundering cheers ... (Ottawa Journal: the Strathconas' horses were put on two trains at the Union depot the night before; the men paraded from Lansdowne Park to the Central depot and both trains left on schedule, the first at 10.30, the second half an hour later.) | Ottawa Citizen 1900-03-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1900-03-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-03-17 | Ottawa Central Station | A gas compression plant has been installed at the C.A.R. Central station for the supply of compressed gas to the passenger cars. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-03-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-04-06 | Ottawa Central Station | The C.P.R. has removed its option on certain property between Isabella and Catherine streets in connection with the proposed route across the city. No definite plan however as to the route to be followed has been announced as yet. (Ottawa Journal, same date: the CPR 'has renewed its options for properties along Isabella Street and with this renewal it seems likely that the CPR intends getting into Centre Town that way.') | Ottawa Citizen 1900-04-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1900-04-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-04-14 | Ottawa Central Station | Speaking of the proposed new Central depot today Mr. Booth said he was glad the contract for the militia stores building had been let. He hoped the contractors would push operations with all speed in order that he might get to work on the new station as soon as the government stores were removed. Asked if he had any intention of acquiring the burned Howe block in order to afford him more room for a station site, Mr. Booth said he knew nothing of the matter at all. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-04-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-04-26 | Ottawa Central Station | A detachment of the Montreal fire brigade arrived at 6.50 over the C.A.R. It consisted of an engine, a reel, 8 men in charge of a chief and 5 horses. The trip from Coteau was made by engine 622 in 1 hour, 55 minutes. Another engine arrived from Montreal at 7.05 p.m. ... The Montreal Detachment returned to that city at four o'clock this morning. The Brockville and Peterborough brigades also returned this forenoon after paying their respects to Chief Provost. ... For Relief Fund: a great many friends of the sufferers from yesterday's fire have requested the Canada Atlantic Railway company to give them an opportunity to come to the city ... that company has very kindly agreed to run special trains from all stations, Valleyfield, Hawkesbury and intermediate points, to Ottawa, also from Pembroke and stations east, at a very low rate of fare. Twenty-five per cent of the revenue from these trains will be turned over to the relief fund. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-04-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-04-27 | Ottawa Central Station | During the afternoon Brockville was asked to send any assistance that could be spared from that town. An engine and a reel of hose was sent out ... When Smith's Falls was reached it was learned that the engine could not be landed in the city over the Canadian Pacific railway, and the train was run down to St. Polycarpe Junction and in over Canada Atlantic tracks to Central depot. The fire was well under control so that the steamer was not unloaded, but the Brockville firemen gave every assistance they could otherwise. | Ottawa Journal 1900-04-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-05-12 | Ottawa Central Station | The heavy loss sustained by the Canadian Pacific in the fire is likely to temporarily derange any plans which it has had for securing a right of way across the city and connecting the transcontinental line with the short line running into the Central depot. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-05-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-07-20 | Car Shops | A very unusual surgical operation was performed the other day in Ottawa. Foreman Tremble, of the C.A.R. machine shops, had one of his eyes penetrated by a piece of steel. His physicians tried an electric magnet on it and drew it out. | Almonte Gazette 1900-07-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-08-10 | Elgin Street Coal Sheds | The Canada Atlantic Railway has applied to Building Inspector Pratt for permission to erect new coal sheds on its property on the east side of the canal. The buildings now used for the purpose on Elgin street are, it appears, in the way of some improvements to be carried out by the commission and will have to be removed. (Ottawa Free Press, same date: the new sheds will be built 'south of Maria street on the east bank of the canal'.) | Ottawa Citizen 1900-08-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1900-08-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-08-22 | Car Shops | New Fire Protective Methods are Being Installed - Active Operations. (Ottawa Journal, same date: 'A new fire fighting system similar to that in use in the Booth mills, is being installed in the Canada Atlantic shops.') | Ottawa Citizen 1900-08-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1900-08-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-09-07 | Ottawa Central Station | The C.P.R. company ... will cross the city next year connecting the transcontinental line with the short line between Ottawa and Montreal. ... The line will likely branch off at the round house on the Richmond Road, cross that thoroughfare and run south over the Prescott line to a point near Young street and from there run nearly parallel to the tracks of the western division of the C.A.R. to the short line tracks down near Hurdman's Bridge. ... When completed, the line will permit of through trains making much better time ... It will also enable western trains to run in and out of the Central depot when it is built. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-09-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-09-08 | Car Shops | At the car shops in Ottawa East everything is quiet. The last of the 1,000 box cars ordered last fall having been completed. Almost all the freight cars are now equipped with air brakes and automatic draw bar. This is a great boon to the brakemen and train hands. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-09-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-10-06 | Ottawa Central Station | As the work on the new government military stores is being rushed, it is expected that the stores will be out of the present building in the course of a few months and the space now occupied will be converted into offices for the Ottawa & Gatineau and the Pontiac & Pacific railways. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-10-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-10-13 | Maria Street Depot | The Canada Atlantic railway company are extending their yards near the canal basin and have commenced excavating at the Granite company's property and at the Maria street bridge. ... The old building that was used as a depot when the Canada Atlantic first commenced running in at the canal basin will be moved up to the rear of the freight sheds and the offices of Mr. R.K. Clairs and his staff will be moved into that building. This is necessitated by the large increase in package freight and as the offices are at present in the freight sheds, they will be moved to make space for freight. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-10-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-10-20 | Ottawa Central Station | The Canada Atlantic yards between Central depot and the Maria street bridge are being enlarged and new tracks have been laid. The work of levelling and filling in the new yard is being expedited by means of steam shovels. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-10-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-10-24 | Ottawa Central Station | A steam shovel belonging to the C.A.R. has been at work cutting away the embankment near Wilbrod street. The (city) engineer says the work has been interfering with the sewer and has instructed the company to discontinue operations. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-10-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |