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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-12-03 | Ottawa Central Station | "The noise of chisels and hammers resounded through the Union Station building today, as workmen commenced to dig up the concrete to remove the old iron gates that guard the entrance to trains. The gates are to be replaced by a glass-enclosed entrance similar to the one at the Windsor Station in Montreal." | Ottawa Citizen 1930-12-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1930-12-12 | Eganville | CNR constructed a siding about a mile south-east of town at Spring Creek crossing (Eganville-Perrault road) for pulpwood etc. | leader |
| 1930-3 | Canada Atlantic Second Class / Baggage Car 25 | Brd. Madawaska, Ont. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1931 ? | Canada Atlantic Business Car 333 Opeongo | Renumbered CN 85, PV-72-H, also recorded as Opeonga | Lepkey p301 |
| 1931-01-12 | Ottawa Central Station | "There is considerable construction work being undertaken at the Union Station. The new glass-enclosed gates at the entrance to trains are rapidly nearing completion. The iron structure has already been erected and part of the glass has been installed. In addition, new marble steps are being constructed to replace those leading to the ground level, and the canopy over the main entrance to the station is being repaired." | Ottawa Citizen 1931-01-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1931-03 | Canada Atlantic Parlour Car 200 | Renumbered GTW 847 | Lepkey p301 |
| 1931-03 to 1931-08 | Canada Atlantic Parlour Car 200 | Leased to GTW | Lepkey p301 |
| 1931-04-24 | Bank Street | Two Bell Telephone employees "had a miraculous escape from serious injury or death at about 8 o'clock this morning when the truck in which they were driving to repair trouble on the Bell Telephone lines on Carling avenue collided with the C.N.R. Ottawa-Scotia train at the level crossing on Carling avenue, just beyond the city limits." | Ottawa Citizen 1931-04-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1931-05-08≥ | Casselman | By 8 May 1931 (the issue date), the paper reported: Mrs. Fabian Gratton, 47, of Casselman, "was struck and instantly killed by a Canadian National Railways Ottawa-Montreal passenger train" while crossing the railway bridge over the South Nation River, "early last evening"; she was "hurled 50 feet into the water below". Her sister-in-law Mrs. Andre Charbonneau and her eight-year-old son escaped by lying beside the track. The engineer was H. H. Legate and the conductor George Keeler; the coroner decided that an inquest was not necessary. | Ottawa Journal 1931-05-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1931-09-23≥ | Alexandria Water Tower | By 23 September 1931 (the issue date), the paper reported: "The water tank at the station at Alexandria was struck by lightning and some of the boards split but no serious damage was done." The same item reports that Highway No. 34 between Alexandria and Lancaster "was blocked for four hours last night when four large cedar trees were torn out by the wind". | Ottawa Citizen 1931-09-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1931-10-20≥ | Chaudiere Branch | By 20 October 1931 (the issue date), the paper reported: Thomas W. Johnston, aged 66, "was injured last night on Booth Street at 11.35 o'clock, when, police state, he walked into the side of a freight train which was passing across the street into the yards of J. R. Booth Ltd." | Ottawa Journal 1931-10-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1931-12 | Canada Atlantic Business Car 333 Opeongo | Taken into CN count | Lepkey p301 |
| 1931-12-12≥ | Ottawa Central Station | By 12 December 1931 (the issue date), the paper reported: A Canadian National train, engine 6026, ran into the rear of the Canadian Pacific Montreal-Vancouver train in the Laurier avenue yards "about 9.15 o'clock last night", injuring ten or eleven people, among them Fire Chief J. E. Lemieux; the C.P.R. observation car was lifted off its truck. Both trains had left Montreal at 7.15 and were due at Ottawa at 9.15 and 9.16; at Deep Cut the trains leave their own tracks and come in on the single main line, and at the Laurier avenue bridge are switched again. The C.N.R. engineer, H. H. Legate, was confronted with a blanket of steam from the train ahead. The C.N.R. superintendent H. C. White said "the trains had been running on the single track for 25 years. This was the first time an accident of this nature had occurred." | Ottawa Citizen 1931-12-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1931-12-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1931-12-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1931-12-26 | Chaudiere Branch | "The presence of mind of Clifford Lahey, 26 Westmount avenue, driver of a motor car, saved himself and three others from serious injury in a collision early this morning with a C.N.R. yard engine and caboose at the Gladstone avenue crossing near Preston street." On Gladstone avenue "there are two crossings only a few yards apart. While there is a wigwag signal at the C.P.R. crossing, the C.N.R. is unprotected." | Ottawa Citizen 1931-12-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1931≥ | Harry (Hiram) Brown | Harry Brown had retired as an engineer by 1931. | Ottawa Citizen 1931-01-10(https://sites.google.com/site/canadaatlanticry/peo...) |
| 1932-01-07 | Bank Street | William McDermott, 39, "commenced walking alongside the Canadian National Railway tracks near the Bronson avenue crossing" about 10 o'clock this morning, "unmindful of the approaching engine and freight cars", slipped and fell in the path of the freight train; "grabbed hold of the couplers at the rear of the freight car" and was carried about 100 feet, unhurt. The train was going about five miles an hour. | Ottawa Citizen 1932-01-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1932-02-18 | Ottawa Central Station | The Board of Railway Commissioners "is hearing representations of counsel for both railways at a sitting today" to fix responsibility and the payment for damages from the collision between a C.N.R. and a C.P.R. train in the Ottawa yards on the night of Friday, 11 December. "Revision of railway regulations may result from the hearing", said Chief Commissioner Justice C. P. Fullerton. The sittings were private; on 20 February they were adjourned until Tuesday, the Board acting "as a board of arbitration between the two railway companies". | Ottawa Citizen 1932-02-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1932-02-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1932-03-14≥ | Arnprior | By 14 March 1932 (the issue date), the paper reported: William White, 56, of Smiths Falls, "a C.N.R. trainman, was seriously injured here yesterday when he fell from the top of a box car and under the wheels of a moving train. His left hand was so badly crushed that it had to be amputated and it was also found that his skull was fractured." He "was on top of one of the cars while shunting was being done in the local yard." | Ottawa Citizen 1932-03-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1932-05-02 | Alexandria | "When he fell off a Canadian National freight train and under the wheels here late tonight, Alex A. Cameron of Stellarton, N.S., suffered amputation of both his legs above the knees and died before medical aid reached him. The freight had stopped here for water, and it was while testing the wheels of the cars that the conductor found the man beside the track." | Ottawa Citizen 1932-05-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1932-05-09≥ | Arnprior | By 9 May 1932 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Another level crossing accident occurred here Saturday evening at the C.N.R. crossing on Highway 17, about a mile east of town": the evening local, due in Arnprior at 5.58 p.m., "crashed into" a team and wagon; both horses were killed and dragged about 700 feet, and three people were injured. The train, "an oil-electric express, according to some members of the train crew, narrowly escaped being de-railed". | Ottawa Journal 1932-05-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1932-05-30≥ | Herbert Alonzo Pangborn | By 30 May 1932 (the issue date), the paper reported: Herbert Alonzo Pangborn, "an active railroader for 55 years", "died Saturday at his home at Rockland, Ont.", in his 89th year, a member of Lodge No. 29, Order of Railway Conductors. | Ottawa Citizen 1932-05-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1932-07 | Canada Atlantic First Class Coach 40 | Scrapped at Southwark PQ. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1932-07 | Canada Atlantic First Class Coach 52 | Scrapped at Southwark, PQ. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1932-08 | Canada Atlantic First Class Coach 33 | Scrapped at London, Ont. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1932-08-22≥ | Chaudiere Branch | By 22 August 1932 (the issue date), the paper reported: Michael Colabrese, crossing attendant, was "struck down by a motor car driven by Joseph Kenville, 165 Armstrong street, as it swerved to avoid a collision with a train at the C.N.R. crossing on Booth Street just north of Wellington." A yard engine hauling a string of freight cars was about to go over the crossing; Colabrese "was standing near the center of the roadway holding up a 'stop' sign". The car crashed into the crossing attendant's cabin. Kenville was charged with reckless driving. | Ottawa Citizen 1932-08-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1932-10 | Canada Atlantic Official Car 99, Champlain | o/s | Lepkey p301 |
| 1932-10-28 | Joe Lake | Up in Joe Lake, Algonquin Park, Billy the deer looks forward to train time, becaise that means people at the station with candy bars or peanuts, which are good., Billy first wandered down to the station two years ago, and now he returns every time he hears a train whistle, much to the delight of the kiddies. This year, Billy, who is now eight years old, returned from the woods with two companions, Maude and Teddy, who apparently have been reading safety first literature, for while Billy wanders right on to the railway tracks, Maude and Teddy remain at the edge of the woods wondering what all the fuss is about. | leader |
| 1932-11 | Canada Atlantic Business Car 333 Opeongo | Dism. Southwark, P.Q. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1932-11-17≥ | Kinburn | By 17 November 1932 (the issue date), the paper reported: "A herd of cattle belonging to J. Scissons, near Kinburn, Ont., seeking shelter from a snow storm, wandered through a gate on the Canadian National tracks and there huddled together. A train rushing west crashed into the herd and killed 23 of them. Railway men do not recall so great a number of cattle killed in one crash heretofore." | Winchester Press 1932-11-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1932-11-28≥ | Chaudiere Branch | By 28 November 1932 (the issue date), the paper reported: A milk truck driven by George Cassell, 18, "was hurled about forty feet when struck by a CNR passenger train at the Booth street crossing on the cross town tracks" on Saturday evening; the train was the eastbound Golden Lake to Ottawa train. Witnesses said the crossing bell was not ringing; "the warning bell commenced to ring as the train backed up." The yard limit on that line is near Bayswater avenue. | Ottawa Citizen 1932-11-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1933 | Madawaska Roundhouse | Madawaska is a "ghost town": "the skeleton of the once-busy Grand Trunk roundhouse that held 35 locomotives when Madawaska was a division point on the railroad, built by J.R. Booth. The town's population shrank by 200 when a section of the road was ripped up and the roundhouse closed in 1933." | Ottawa Citizen 1952-11-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1933-02-24 | Morley Donaldson | J. H. MacLeod, who spent 23 years on the Canada Atlantic as brakeman, baggageman and in other capacities, recalled the employees and officials of the road as "a big happy family". "The late Morley Donaldson, the superintendent, was more like a father than a boss." | Ottawa Citizen 1933-02-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1933-03 | Canada Atlantic Second Class Coach 31 | Scrapped at Kamloops Jct, BC. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1933-03-21≥ | Casselman | By 21 March 1933 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Hundreds of passengers Ottawa-bound from Montreal were delayed several hours en route last night when the engine of the No. 1 Canadian National Railways express due here at 9.20 o'clock broke down near Castleman, Ont." A special train sent out from Ottawa at 10.45 brought the passengers in at 12.55; the stalled train reached Ottawa about three o'clock. | Ottawa Journal 1933-03-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1933-08-21 | Arnprior | C. Pendler, aged 27, a merchant of Amos, Que., "died here this morning as result of injuries when he drove his car into the side of an eastbound C.N.R. local" on Highway No. 17 near Arnprior, with two women companions, one badly cut and bruised. | Ottawa Citizen 1933-08-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1933-10-07≥ | Bank Street | By 7 October 1933 (the issue date), the paper reported: Betty Eleanor Milks, aged two, "clambered to the top of the Canadian National Railway's embankment at the rear of her home at 32 Edgar street, where she was struck and killed by the Pembroke-bound passenger train of the C.N.R. which left the Union Station in Ottawa at 3.45 o'clock on Saturday afternoon." | Ottawa Citizen 1933-10-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1933-10-12≥ | Bank Street | By 12 October 1933 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Death was accidental and no blame attached to the Canadian National Railways or the engineer of the C.N.R. Ottawa-Pembroke train, was the verdict at the inquest last evening at the police station into the death of Betty Eleanor Milks, three-year old daughter of George E. Milks, 32 Edgar street." She was killed "just back of her home near the Fairmont avenue crossing". Coroner J. E. Craig presided; the engineer was W. G. Cooper. | Ottawa Citizen 1933-10-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1933-10-27 | Arnprior | Benjamin S. Bolton of Ottawa "is alive and uninjured, but his light coach is almost a wreck as a result of Mr. Bolton driving his car into the side of a C.N.R. train at a level crossing about a half mile east of Arnprior late this afternoon", about 4.50, as the westbound local approached Arnprior. The air line broke and the train was held up for two hours. "This is the third serious accident at this crossing during the past eighteen months"; it has no signal or wig-wag. | Ottawa Citizen 1933-10-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1933-12-17 | Maxville | "Her view hindered by an umbrella she carried to protect herself from a pelting rain, Mrs. Ross, wife of J. Archie Ross, local baker, stepped into the path of a Montreal-Ottawa C.N.R. freight train and was instantly killed tonight", about 7.30 p.m., on her way to church. Coroner J. H. Munro was to hold an inquest. | Ottawa Citizen 1933-12-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1934-01-02≥ | Carp | By 2 January 1934 (the issue date), the paper reported: "The morning train from Ottawa to Pembroke ran into trouble here yesterday morning about 8.45 as it was leaving the station, when the engine ran off the track. The icy condition of the tracks was undoubtedly the cause and the fact that the train had not gained very much speed certainly prevented a bad wreck. One of the rails was broken into three pieces but the engine remained upright." | Ottawa Citizen 1934-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1934-01-02≥ | Galetta | By 2 January 1934 (the issue date), the paper reported: After a sleet and rain storm that began "early Sunday evening", on the C.N.R. Ottawa-Madawaska line "train service was completely blocked for the entire day", the section between Carp and Arnprior being the most seriously affected. The train due at Galetta at 9 a.m. did not reach it until 12.30 p.m.; "the wheels dropped from the rails near the switch just west of Galetta station a small section of the track was broken", and over fifty section men were set to work with picks breaking the ice between Galetta and Arnprior. Veteran railwaymen said they had never seen such conditions. | Ottawa Citizen 1934-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1934-01-02≥ | Kinburn | By 2 January 1934 (the issue date), the paper reported: After a delay of nearly 12 hours, the passengers on the train that left Ottawa at 7.55 a.m. "were transferred by taxi last evening from Kinburn to Arnprior, where they were placed on board the eastbound train which had been stopped there, and the passengers on this train were transported by auto to Kinburn, where they were taken aboard the train from Ottawa." Meals were supplied in restaurants at Kinburn and Arnprior. | Ottawa Citizen 1934-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1934-01-02≥ | Caldwell | By 2 January 1934 (the issue date), the paper reported: "At Caldwell, also on the Ottawa-Madawaska line near Eganville, a snowplow was derailed but this obstruction was cleared early." | Ottawa Citizen 1934-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1934-01-02≥ | Bank Street | By 2 January 1934 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Additional section men were called out soon after the commencement of the storm on Sunday evening to keep the Bank street yard open for trains. The section men experienced great difficulty in operating the switches and walking was risky for the men as the sleet soon made a glare sheet of ice in the yards. Several of the sidings were rendered impassable and all day yesterday men worked with pick and shovels clearing these tracks." | Ottawa Citizen 1934-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1934-01-23≥ | Madawaska | By 23 January 1934 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Motor trouble on the C.N.R. Madawaska-Pembroke-Ottawa train this morning as it was leaving the sheds at Madawaska caused it to be more than two hours late on arrival at Ottawa. Due at 10.55 a.m., it did not reach here until nearly two o'clock. Some difficulty was experienced in getting the engine off the turn-table at Madawaska with the result that a steam engine had to be commissioned to convey the passengers here." | Ottawa Journal 1934-01-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1934-08-18≤ | Bank Street | From 18 August 1934 (the issue date), the paper announced: "Late this evening a long train of double length railroad cars will pull into the Canadian National yards and the unloading of the eighty seven wagons carrying the show equipment will start immediately." The World of Mirth Shows were to provide the midway at the Ottawa Exhibition opening on Monday morning. | Ottawa Citizen 1934-08-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1934-11-05≥ | Bank Street | By 5 November 1934 (the issue date), the paper reported: George Jiasson, 40, of Toronto, "attempted to board a freight train while it was crossing the Bank street subway about eight o'clock Saturday night" and "fell between a box car and the side of the bridge, suffering a cut to the side of his head and a fracture of the left rib." | Ottawa Citizen 1934-11-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1935 | Kinburn | Station burned | Aubrey photo 5645 |
| 1935-01-25 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | Renfrew County Council passed resolution to Board of Railway Commissioners opposing application by CNR to abandon line. | leader |
| 1935-02-22 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | Pembroke protests proposal to abandon line. MPs call for revision to freight rates for short haul and branchline. | leader |
| 1935-05-08≥ | Carp | By 8 May 1935 (the issue date), the paper reported: Robert Armstrong, aged 19, of Huntley, "received minor injuries" when the automobile he was driving "crashed into the side of a freight train at a crossing at the west end of the village of Carp at 1.30 p.m. yesterday". His auto struck the C.N.R. east-bound freight just after it had passed over the highway crossing, colliding with the first car behind the engine. | Ottawa Citizen 1935-05-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1935-07-05 | Bank Street | Three special trains of the Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus reached Ottawa several hours late, too late for the street parade. "The train arrived at the Bank street yard of the C.N.R. at 10.14 and within half an hour it had been broken into sections and was placed on the sidings at Plouffe Park. The train came from Brockville via Coteau Junction." The circus said the trains had been routed "on a round about way" because of the many low bridges on the main line between Ottawa and Brockville, and a hot box delayed the train at Cornwall. | Ottawa Citizen 1935-07-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1935-07-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1935-07-13 | Coteau Junction | "Quebec provincial police took nine men off an Ottawa-bound freight train here early today in the belief they were connected with the hunger march of Montreal unemployed to Ottawa... Officers lodged them in cells here and resumed their guard over the railway yards." | Ottawa Citizen 1935-07-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1935-08-09≥ | Bank Street | By 9 August 1935 (the issue date), the paper reported: In reply to a protest that shunting and the stopping of cattle cars "in the Isabella street yard of the C.N. Rly. were creating a nuisance in the district", I. C. Rand, K.C., counsel for the railway, wrote that two hours was the limit for keeping cattle on the sidings and that "while switching could not be done without noise it had to be done". Mayor Nolan said one cause of the noise was "flying shunting". | Ottawa Citizen 1935-08-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1935-08-19 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | "The first reunion of the old boys of Canada Atlantic Railway opens today at the Chateau Laurier. It will continue all week." It was 30 years since J. R. Booth sold the old Canada Atlantic to the Grand Trunk; "there are 876 living all over the continent who are registered members of the Old Boys' Association, and around 400 of these are expected to attend their first reunion." The officers were William C. Moore of the C.N.R., president; J. H. MacLeod, vice-president; C. J. Bott, secretary-treasurer; and Charles Keevil, assistant secretary. | Ottawa Citizen 1935-08-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1935-09 | Canada Atlantic Baggage Car 7 | Scrapped at Transcona, Man. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1935-09 | Canada Atlantic Baggage Car 8 | Scrapped at Transcona, Man. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1935-09 | Canada Atlantic Second Class Coach 32 | Scrapped at London, Ont. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1935-10 | Canada Atlantic 4-6-0 #634 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1935-10 | Canada Atlantic 2-8-0 #701 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1935-10 | Canada Atlantic 2-8-0 #702 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1935-11 | Canada Atlantic 2-8-0 #690 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1935-11 | Canada Atlantic 2-8-0 #696 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1935-11 | Canada Atlantic 2-8-0 #699 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1935-11 | Canada Atlantic 2-8-0 #703 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1935-12 | Canada Atlantic 4-6-0 #635 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1935-12 | Canada Atlantic 4-6-0 #637 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1935-12 | Canada Atlantic 2-8-0 #692 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1935-12 | Canada Atlantic 2-8-0 #698 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1935-12 | Canada Atlantic Second Class / Baggage Car 21 | Scrapped | Lepkey p301 |
| 1935-12 | Canada Atlantic First Class Coach 102 | Scrapped | Lepkey p301 |
| 1936-01 | Canada Atlantic Comabination Car 4 | Scrapped at London, Ont. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1936-01 | Canada Atlantic First Class Coach 9 | Scrapped at London, Ont. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1936-01 | Canada Atlantic Second Class / Baggage Car 20 | Scrapped | Lepkey p301 |
| 1936-01 | Canada Atlantic First Class Coach 37 | Scrapped Southwark, PQ. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1936-01 | Canada Atlantic First Class Coach 39 | Scrapped at London, Ont. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1936-01 | Canada Atlantic Parlour Car 203 | Scrapped | Lepkey p301 |
| 1936-01-18≥ | Chadiere Junction | By 18 January 1936 (the issue date), the paper reported: Two west end youths "had a narrow escape from serious injury or death early last evening when four box cars passed completely over one youth and a second was forced to jump to safety as a C.N.R. freight train, backing along the trestle over Holland avenue, overtook them as they were skiing along the right of way." | Ottawa Citizen 1936-01-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-02 | Canada Atlantic Second Class / Baggage 24 | Scrapped at Southwark, PQ. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1936-02-25 | Maria Street Bridge | Roland Durocher, 19, of Montreal, "was fatally injured when he jumped off the tender and slipped and fell under the wheels of the second last coach of the CPR Montreal-Ottawa train as it was pulling into the yards here shortly before one o'clock this morning." The scene was "just 150 yards south of the Laurier avenue bridge where the train would be slowing down to come into the station"; Durocher and his chum, 15, were beating their way to Timmins. | Ottawa Citizen 1936-02-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-02-28≥ | Maria Street Bridge | By 28 February 1936 (the issue date), the paper reported: At the inquest into the death of Roland Desrochers, 19, of Montreal, killed "while riding 'blind baggage' on the Imperial limited early Tuesday morning", the coroner's jury "decided Desrochers met his death while trespassing and that it was accidental." Constable Arthur Rondeau described commandeering a locomotive to search for the body, which was found "about 150 yards south of the Laurier avenue Bridge". | Ottawa Journal 1936-02-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-03-29 | William H. Taylor | On "the 29th of March, 1936, he brought in the Canadian National Railways crack transcontinental train No. 1 from Montreal, and thus wrote finis to a railroading career which commenced fifty years ago with the old Canada Atlantic Railway." "Forty-two of those years were spent as locomotive engineer in the service of the same road, through a succession of changes in ownership." | Ottawa Citizen 1937-07-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-05-19 | Bank Street | "Mayor Lewis has received complaints as to the prevalence of shunting of trains in the Bank street railway yards during the night. The C.N. Rly. some time ago agreed to reduce the night shunting to an absolute minimum but residents in the district say the nuisance is now more common. An appeal will likely be made to the minister of railways." | Ottawa Citizen 1936-05-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-07 | Canada Atlantic Second Class Coach 34 | Scrapped at Port Mann, BC. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1936-07 | Canada Atlantic Second Class Coach 100 | Scrapped at Port Mann, B.C. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1936-07-27≥ | Eastern Subdivision | By 27 July 1936 (the issue date), the paper reported: George Ephrian Harper Simpson, aged 50, farmer of Vars, "was instantly killed shortly after 4 p.m., Saturday, a victim of a level crossing crash on the Russell Road, a mile east of Hurdman's Bridge", when his car collided with the Montreal-Ottawa C.N.R. local passenger train due at Union Station at 4.20 p.m. "The crossing is a double one, the C.P.R. and C.N.R. tracks running parallel." The train was in charge of conductor C. C. McCulloch and engineer Wm. T. Asher. | Ottawa Citizen 1936-07-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-08-01≥ | Alexandria | By 1 August 1936 (the issue date), the paper reported: Allan Snider, 78, of Alexandria, returning from a fishing trip, "was struck and killed by the nine o'clock Canadian National Railways Ottawa-Montreal express about a mile and a half east of this place." The engineer reported at Glen Robertson that he thought his locomotive had struck something on a curve east of Alexandria; sectionmen found the body. Snider was stone deaf. | Ottawa Citizen 1936-08-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-09-08 | Carp | "Claude Armstrong, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Armstrong, of Carp, narrowly escaped death this morning when the car he was driving was hit by a freight train travelling west from the village." "About a year ago, Robert Armstrong, brother of Claude Armstrong, was struck at the same crossing while driving in the opposite direction." | Ottawa Citizen 1936-09-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-09-14≥ | Arnprior | By 14 September 1936 (the issue date), the paper reported: Frank Nighbor of Pembroke, the hockey player, "had a narrow escape from serious injury here when his car was struck by a freight train at the Daniel street crossing of the CNR., at about 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon." The crossing "has an electric wig-wag signal but it operated from the main line only and does not wag or light up when trains are working on the siding." | Ottawa Citizen 1936-09-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-09-19≥ | Elgin Street | By 19 September 1936 (the issue date), the paper reported: Roland Duchesneau, 28, of Cacouna, Que., "climbed aboard the side of a box-car of a moving westbound mixed freight train in the yards of the Canadian National Railways near Elgin street at 7 o'clock last evening" and "was caught by the switch standard just west of the bridge over Elgin street subway and pulled from the train"; his right foot was amputated at the ankle. The train "had to stop before it crossed the bridge over the canal a little east of the Elgin street bridge"; the conductor was G. H. Everest. | Ottawa Citizen 1936-09-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-09-28≥ | Moose Creek | By 28 September 1936 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Ferginald Deroucher of Sandringham suffered a broken hip when the car in which he was a passenger was struck by a freight train yesterday afternoon. The three other passengers in the car escaped with a shaking up despite the fact that the car was completely demolished." He was rushed to hospital at Cornwall. | Ottawa Citizen 1936-09-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-1 | Canada Atlantic 4-6-0 #631 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1936-10 | Canada Atlantic Baggage, Mail, Express Car 11 | Scrapped at Southwark, P.Q. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1936-11 | Canada Atlantic Baggage, Mail, Express Car 12 | Scrapped at Southwark, P.Q. | Lepkey p301 |
| 1936-2 | Canada Atlantic 2-8-0 #700 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1936-3 | Canada Atlantic 2-8-0 #695 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1936-3 | Canada Atlantic 2-8-0 #697 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1937 | Rockland Branch | Dismantled between Clarence Creek and l'Original Sub | CNR Limoges map(https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Plans/Hammond02....) |
| 1937-01-02≥ | Chadiere Junction | By 2 January 1937 (the issue date), the paper reported: Jean Hyde, 13, "was fatally injured when struck by the west bound C.N.R. Ottawa-Pembroke local, just west of Holland avenue subway, at 4.30 p.m. Friday" (New Year's Day). The train had left Union Station at 4.20 p.m.; the engineer sounded the whistle and applied the emergency brakes, stopping 180 feet beyond the spot. She had been walking west on the track with her ten-year-old brother, who jumped aside. She died on the way to the Civic Hospital. | Ottawa Journal 1937-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1937-01-08≥ | Chadiere Junction | By 8 January 1937 (the issue date), the paper reported: A coroner's jury found that the death of Jean Hyde, 13, killed by a C.N.R. train near the Holland avenue subway on New Year's Day, "was accidental and there was no negligence on anyone's part", and recommended "that parents constantly caution their children not to walk on railway tracks". The engineer and fireman said the bell had been ringing steadily and the whistle sounded; witnesses said they did not hear it. The verdict was given Thursday evening. | Ottawa Journal 1937-01-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |