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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900-11-14 | Ottawa Central Station | City Engineer Kerr says that the C.A.R., with the object of closing up James street, placed a fence across the street near the new siding which the railway company is laying. Mr. Kerr has written the company ordering that the fence be taken down. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-11-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-11-24 | Maria Street Depot | The new yards at the site of the granite works have a capacity of 250 cars and greatly facilitate the handling of freight and relieve the present yards. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-11-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-11-29 | Ottawa Central Station | C.A.R. request to the stopping up of Wilbrod and James streets will likely be granted. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-11-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1900-12-19 | Ottawa Central Station | The new union depot for Ottawa, so long talked of, will be built during the coming year, if present intentions are carried out. A prominent official of the Canada Atlantic railway stated today that he did not have the remotest doubt that the work would be proceeded with considering that in the spring the government will vacate the building at the canal basin used jointly for militia stores and depot purposes. The new military stores building in the rear of the drill hall is already completed on the outside, so that early in the summer it will be in readiness for occupancy. Mr. J. R. Booth has time and again asserted that as soon as the new building is done work on the union depot will be started. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-12-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1900-12-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1901-01-11 | Elgin Street Depot | Military train arrived at Elgin Street at 12.20 noon and the official reception took place at the Drill Hall. The 'D' Batterymen arrived at the Elgin street depot to-day at twelve twenty, noon. Major Hurdman and Lieut. E.W.B. Morrison, were both looking splendid... Detachments from the Guards, Rifles, Dragoons and second Field Battery attended and lined up on Elgin street near the tracks. | Ottawa Journal 1901-01-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1901-04-01 | Car Shops | The Governor General's car 'Victoria' has recently been overhauled and re-decorated at the Canada Atlantic shops. The car now presents a fine appearance and has been put in readiness for the summer service. | Ottawa Journal 1901-04-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1901-04-12 | Coteau Elevator | Mr. E.J. Chamberlain, general manager of the Canada Atlantic Railway, was in Montreal Friday (5/4) and expressed himself very plainly on the elevator question. He states that the contract his company has in connection with [Coteau] and [the elevator] between that point and Montreal had expired after running three years. They now have to make other arrangements and unless something can be done in Montreal the company will have to go elsewhere. | Eastern Ontario Review 1901-04-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1901-07-04 | Maria Street Bridge | Maria Street Bridge will be thrown open for traffic today. Iron work has been supplied by Dominion Bridge Company of Lachine and is painted black. | Ottawa Citizen 1901-07-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1901-08-02 | Elgin Street Coal Sheds | It was claimed to-day by a prominent ratepayer that the C.A.R. wooden coal sheds opposite the city hall across the canal were infringing the fire area by-law. These sheds are in fire area B. Mr. Pratt [the city building inspector] said that the C.A.R. coal sheds were yet in course of construction. When the building permit was taken out the C.A.R. authorities promised that these buildings would be sheeted with iron and thus be made to harmonize with the fire area by-law. | Ottawa Journal 1901-08-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1901-09-28 | Ottawa Central Station | According to railway returns some 24,000 passengers were brought into Ottawa last week. Judging by the daily returns the Central Fair was responsible for about half, the royal visit for the rest. | Ottawa Journal 1901-09-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1901-11-25 | Ottawa Central Station | This morning the Ottawa and New York express due at the Central Station at 10.45 struck and seriously injured Telesphore Gravelle of Aylmer, a fireman on the Ottawa, Northern and Western Railway. The unfortunate man had put his engine into the round house and was walking towards the station between the rails and the main line. The engineer on the passenger train whistled three times and had slowed considerably when Gravelle was struck. The cow catcher knocked Gravelle down but clear of the rails. At St. Luke's hospital his injuries were found to consist of two scalp wounds on the back and the side of the head, an abrasion of the right shoulder and an injury to the left knee. | Ottawa Journal 1901-11-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1902-02-08 | Car Shops | Fifteen Hundred Freight Cars are to be Built for the Canada Atlantic At Shops in Ottawa. One Thousand Men will be Employed and Sale of Road will not Affect It. Estimates have been called for by the C.A.R. on lumber, iron fittings and other materials entering into the construction of boxcars. If satisfactory negotiations can be made, work will be started in the spring at the car shops at Ottawa East. Over 1,500 box cars are provided for in the estimates. The daily output ranges from five to ten cars, so that the contemplated contract would keep the shops busy seven or eight months at the least. | Ottawa Citizen 1902-02-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1902-03-10 | Douglas Depot | The C.A.R. station at Douglas, Ont., was destroyed by fire Monday evening. The agent, Mr. Boyd, sustained a heavy loss - all of his household effects, which included a new piano, being burned. The goods in the freight shed were saved. The fire started from the flue. | Ottawa Journal 1902-03-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),The Equity, Shawville 1902-03-20(Fuller report, dating the fire to the Monday eveni...) |
| 1902-03-22 | Elgin Car Shops | Hot Night fire in Canada Atlantic yards. Car repair shops and 3 passenger cars destroyed in an hour. Loss about $45,000. The old wooden car repair shops of the Canada Atlantic Railway, situated east of Elgin street at the terminus of Catharine street, were destroyed by fire between ten and eleven o'clock. The building, one of the first erected when the C.A.R. was established here about 15 years ago, with more recent extensions, covered an area of about 10,000 square feet. Destroyed along with it were two first-class coaches valued at about $7,500 each, one baggage car worth $7,000, five freight cars and a wrecking train, and a snowplow. Several large freight engines standing alongside were not damaged. Mr. C. Jackson Booth, president of the C.A.R., was on hand shortly after the first alarm. He estimated the loss at between $40,000 and $45,000, covered by policies in the Home Fire Insurance Company of New York. The old round house adjacent had been destroyed by fire about three years earlier. All that now remains of the original Canada Atlantic buildings is the old station house on the west side of Elgin Street. The burning of the shops will temporarily throw some men out of work, but they will be required in the new shops at Ottawa East. | Ottawa Citizen 1902-03-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1902-03-22(Fuller corroborating report (includes a sketch). T...) |
| 1902-06-13 | Ottawa Central Station | Preparing the tracks. Cross over being laid for CPR trains at Central Depot. The Canada Atlantic Railway tracks will be in readiness for the CPR trains to pass through the Central Station on Sunday. Engineer Mountain superintended the installing of a crossover switch from the track adjacent to the canal to the one nearer the station. There was previously two crossovers but one was not used. The stop block on the track near the station will not be removed. The switch has a longer lead than the older ones as the CPR trains are longer than the Gatineau trains. | Ottawa Journal 1902-06-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1902-06-16 | Ottawa Central Station | First train pulls through. Imperial Limited Passes Central Depot. The Imperial Limited, the fastest train in the C.P.R. system, passed through the city by way of the Central depot yesterday afternoon. This was the first train to pass through the Central depot since the dispute between Mr. J.R. Booth and the C.P.R., which was heard before the railway committee and resulted in favour of the C.P.R. The fast train pulled in at 3.10, stopped five minutes, and passed on over the bridge through Hull and around to Union depot, where the engines and crew were changed for the west. | Ottawa Journal 1902-06-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1903-09-14 | Elgin Street Depot | While unloading a lot of cattle for the Central Canada Fair, the staff of Senator Edward's Rockland Farm lost a valuable heifer as a result of the unsuitable arrangements at the Canada Atlantic yards at the Elgin Street station. The heifer, when she got out of the car, started to run and succeeded in passing the boy who was at the point where the cattle could get on the tracks. She ran across the yard and in front of a shunting train which struck the animal and knocked her into the mud hole where the excavation is being made for the subway; she died shortly thereafter from the injuries received. Exhibitors said their sheep had run right under the shunting trains at the depot. President Hutchinson explained he had had the track site surveyed and got an estimate from Mr. Booth as to the cost of laying a siding, but it had been dropped for want of funds; it will cost in the vicinity of $7,000 to lay the siding to a point about one hundred yards from the main gateway on Bank Street. | Ottawa Journal 1903-09-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1903-11-09 | Graham Bay Station | Run Off at Graham Bay. A run off occurred on the Canada Atlantic line this morning at Graham Bay station. The whole train is off the track and will block the way until some time this afternoon. No one was injured. The passenger train, which left the Central Station at 8.25 for Parry Sound, was not running very fast at the time the cars left the track. The cause of the accident is not really known but may have been due to some defect in the switch which was placed yesterday. The engine took the main line while the cars apparently mounted the frog and took the siding. The track was torn up considerably. | Ottawa Journal 1903-11-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1903-12-10 | Car Shops | Instructing Railroaders. New travelling Car at the Canada Atlantic Car Shops. At the Canada Atlantic shops there is a novel car for the instruction of railway men, the property of the International Correspondence School, one of a system of eight travelling for the purpose of instructing railwaymen. Two lectures per day are given by the gentlemen in charge of the car, which contains a miniature train and all the equipment, including switches, signals etc. The instruction is for those desirous of passing examinations for promotions as engineers and conductors, including the entire mechanism of the locomotive and cars and the code of signals used in railway work. Mr. Edminster, the assistant superintendent for Ontario, is in charge of the car in Ottawa at present. | Ottawa Journal 1903-12-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1905-06-09 | Ottawa Central Station | Plans of the Grand Trunk. Will build Depot in Ottawa. Sir Charles Rivers-Wilson, when in Montreal, stated positively that as soon as the Grand Trunk took over the Canada Atlantic, arrangements would be made for the erection of a suitable terminal here. The plans of the Grand Trunk do not stop there, as Sir Charles said the company proposed erecting a big hotel here. | Ottawa Journal 1905-06-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1906 | Rideau River Bridge | Built | GTR B&B |
| 1906-06-15 | Renfrew Depot | The Grand Trunk station is being improved. Last week, the Renfrew Electric Company was instructed to wire the station for the electric light. | Mercury 1906-06-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1906-10-05 | Madawaska Roundhouse | Evidently it is the intention of the Grand Trunk Railway Co. to build up the village of Madawaska. For some time past rumours have been current that the divisional point was to be removed from Madawaska to Barry's Bay, but the present action of the G.T.R. is allaying the fears of the villagers. A gang of one hundred and fourteen men, besides several teams, are now engaged in the construction of a new concrete roundhouse near the site of the old building of five stalls, which has been inadequate to fulfil the demands of the increased traffic. | Mercury 1906-10-05(Quoting the Pembroke Observer. Transcribed by Coli...) |
| 1907-01-25 | Madawaska Roundhouse | Officials of the Grand Trunk Railway say that a new round house is to be built at Depot Harbor similar to the one just finished at Madawaska, and the work is likely to start soon. In the way of equipment, the Madawaska one is very fine, there being thirteen stalls for engines, a turntable with some of the most modern mechanical devices, and a complete coaling plant. Engines drawing trains, both from Ottawa to Madawaska, and from the latter point to Depot Harbor, are now coaling at the new coaling plant. The new structures are practically all of concrete and steel. | Mercury 1907-01-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1907-02-12 | Ottawa Central Station | GTR offer to the city: drawing and plan of proposed Union Station and hotel submitted. The hotel is where the station was ultimately built; no provision was made for CPR access to the Interprovincial Bridge. | Ottawa Journal 1907-02-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1907-02-25 | Renfrew Depot | The Grand Trunk evening express going west on Monday night was frozen to the track at Renfrew station through the overflow of water from the tank. It was not until a freight came along and pushed it out that it made its way westward, nearly three hours late. | Mercury 1907-03-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1907-06-06 | Rideau Canal Bridge | Plans are being prepared by the GTR for a new steel bridge across the Rideau Canal to replace the present structure leading from the yards at the foot of Elgin Street to Ottawa East. The new bridge will be placed a little to the south of the present one, so that traffic may not be interrupted while it is being constructed. It has not yet been decided whether it will be a lift or swing bridge. The bridge will be made wide and strong enough to accommodate two tracks, as it is the intention of the company to have their system in Ottawa double-tracked. Cost about $50,000. | Ottawa Journal 1907-06-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1907-08-23 | Rideau Canal Bridge | Locomotive on rampage. Engine No. 451, backing west through the Grand Trunk yards to be attached to the regular daily way freight train going east, on reaching the drawbridge over the canal at Ottawa East, became unmanageable and started to back towards the river instead of over the bridge. The engine ran off the rails and travelled nearly the full length of the bridge on the ties, finally hanging with its tender suspended over the waters of the canal. Engineer J. McKenna and fireman G. Johnston vainly attempted to check the engine; the brakes seemed out of order and only after applying both the air and emergency brakes was the engine brought to a standstill. Three engines were required to haul the runaway back to the rails; traffic was at a standstill over the Grand Trunk tracks for nearly two hours. The back truck of engine No. 451 was damaged, the tender smashed. Various craft on the canal, including the steamer Rideau King, were delayed until the engine was removed. | Ottawa Journal 1907-08-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1907-08-26 | Pembroke Depot | New station at Pembroke. The citizens of Pembroke are jubilant over the anticipation of a new station to be erected in the centre of town by the Grand Trunk Railway Company. The company has bought out the property of several parties in town in order to increase its yard and station grounds. It is expected that with the advent of the Northern Railway to Pembroke the new station will become a Union station for both railways, giving ample accommodation for both railways to enter the town and much better accommodation for the travelling public, who can get on and off the train from the centre of the business portion of the town. | Ottawa Journal 1907-08-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1907-10-26 | Ottawa Central Station | Station and Hotel Construction Begins. City Council almost Unanimously in Favour of Grand Trunk Terms. By a vote of twenty to four the Major's Hill Park site is approved. Sod was broken at two o'clock. Mayor D'Arcy Scott turned the first sod, using a nickel-plated duplicate of the tool used by the sappers in excavating the Rideau Canal. | Ottawa Journal 1907-10-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1907-11-01 | Renfrew Depot | The Grand Trunk station is being much improved this week by the painters. It is now a myrtle green, up four feet from the base, drab from that to the eaves and the roof an emerald green. The Junction station has been similarly freshened. | Mercury 1907-11-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1908-02-13 | Ottawa Central Station | The G.T.R. now proposes a big hotel and Central depot, promised to the city in return for fixed assessments for fifteen and twenty years respectively. The buildings are both considerably reduced in size from what was first proposed to council and promised by the G.T.R. authorities. | Ottawa Journal 1908-02-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1908-05-15 | Ottawa Central Station | New Central station plans submitted by G.T.R. | Ottawa Journal 1908-05-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1908-09-09 | Ottawa Central Station | The contract for tearing down the old concrete and brick dwellings in the yards behind the Central station was awarded to Mr. J. Hudson of Ottawa, and work was commenced. Superintendent Donaldson said it was the intention to erect new freight sheds about where the two old buildings had stood. He had no information as to when work would resume on the baggage annex to the station, whose foundation had been laid by John Quinlan and company. | Ottawa Citizen 1908-09-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1908-09-29 | Ottawa Central Station | The baggage annex for the new G.T.R. station will be completed this fall and will be occupied for station purposes; it is hoped to have the foundation for the hotel completed before the winter puts an end to building operations. The tracks will then be moved over, the annex used as a station, and trains will start from there. | Ottawa Citizen 1908-09-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-04-09 | Ottawa Central Station | The Ottawa City Council has requested the Government to order the G.T.R. Co. to remove a big fence placed around the property where a big Union station was to be erected by the company, but which seems to have been abandoned. | Eastern Ontario Review 1909-04-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-05-10 | Ottawa Central Station | The present stone building which has so long done duty for a central station at Ottawa will be demolished as soon as the baggage annex and power house, which is being erected now beside it, is completed. The new annex will be of concrete and brick with sandstone facings. It will be two stories high, with the upper floor being for offices and the ground floor for baggage rooms. Upon its completion the furniture and fittings of the present stone station will be moved into it and work on the new building will commence. | Ottawa Journal 1909-05-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-05-13 | Ottawa Central Station | A civic building permit for the erection of a power station and baggage annex has been taken out by the GTR at Ottawa. Work was commenced on the annex some days ago. Of the $50,000 to be expended as stated in the permit, from $10,000 to $12,000 probably will be used for relaying the tracks and work required in the yards. | Chesterville Record 1909-05-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-08-19 | Ottawa Central Station | The first car of steel for the frame of the new G.T.R. station has arrived in the city and is being worked into the foundation of the building. It is just nine weeks ago that the first sod was turned on the site of the new station. Today the foundation walls on the north end and on portions of the east and west sides are completed; workmen were obliged to work down nearly five feet through solid rock to reach the required level. | Ottawa Journal 1909-08-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-09-01 | Ottawa Central Station | The roof of the historic old building that has served as the G.T.R. station for so long is being partially removed today. Though the roof has weathered the storms of over half a century, the workmen find the rafters and sheeting to be perfectly sound. | Ottawa Journal 1909-09-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-09-02 | Ottawa Central Station | Workmen today began tearing down the old Central depot. The excavation work is being rushed and on the hotel site men are again at work excavating for the foundations. Several tons of old railroad records are being moved today from the old G.T.R. depot building, which is being torn down; much care is being taken in the work of transferring them from the dusty files to their new receptacles in the station annex. | Ottawa Journal 1909-09-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-10-13 | Ottawa Central Station | The stone work on the new station was started yesterday. Several cars of granite have arrived and this quantity will be used up immediately in the first course on the west side of the new building on the portion of the foundation which is now complete. The course of granite will be followed with Indiana limestone. | Ottawa Journal 1909-10-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1909-11-12 | Ottawa Central Station | The big derrick used in hoisting the large blocks of stone to walls of the new Central Depot smashed yesterday at about 10:20 while lifting one of the biggest blocks of stone. The derrick is gauged to lift two tons, and the stone on the cable is said to weigh about that much. | Ottawa Journal 1909-11-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1910-01-11 | Ottawa Central Station | The new power and heating plant at the Grand Trunk station, which has been in the course of construction for several months, is nearly completed. Fifty men have been employed on the building which is 100 by 65 feet square. Machinery of the latest pattern will be installed in the building. | Ottawa Journal 1910-01-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1910-02-09 | Chateau Laurier | It was thought some time ago that the Geo. A. Fuller Company, the contractors in charge of the Chateau Laurier, would be forced to discontinue the steel construction work because of the belief that a steady supply of steel was not to be obtained from the Dominion Bridge Co. at Montreal. The difficulty has been averted and it is probable that the steel work will be finished by spring. Fifty men are now employed and the contractors have on hand 200 tons or more of the material and there are prospects for a steady supply. | Ottawa Journal 1910-02-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1910-02-09 | Ottawa Central Station | The new Grand Trunk station is rapidly nearing completion and the conglomeration of steel and stone and timber that occupied the site a few months ago is slowly but surely being worked into a graceful building which, when completed, promises to be one of the most attractive railway stations in Canada. The contractors will begin the work of plastering in the building in a few days. | Ottawa Journal 1910-02-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1910-03-28 | Ottawa Central Station | The Grand Trunk Company is making rapid progress in the construction of the concrete wall on the left bank of the Rideau Canal. There are now over eighty men employed in the work. When complete the wall will be twelve hundred feet long, being the entire distance between the bridges. Though the work was begun only on the 12th of February, already three hundred feet are finished. | Ottawa Journal 1910-03-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1910-04-01 | Ottawa Central Station | The stonework on the new G.T.R. station at Ottawa was finished this week. | Eastern Ontario Review 1910-04-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1910-06-25 | Chateau Laurier | At the present rate of progress the concrete work on Chateau Laurier will be completed about the third week in August, thus closing in the building. Similar progress is being made on the new station; the finishing work on the walls and ceilings will be begun presently. Very satisfactory work is being done on the lower tunnel, which will be 7 x 8 feet and 238 feet long, used for the transmission of electric and steam power to the Chateau from the power house south of the station, and 28 feet below the surface of Rideau street; thirty men are working in it, drilling and blasting in the bedrock. The management hope to finish the rough work on both the power tunnel and the passenger tunnel before October, with finishing work completed before Christmas. The passenger tunnel will be about the same length and 8 x 11, and will be ornately finished. | Ottawa Journal 1910-06-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1911-01-31 | Ottawa East Coal Chute | Superintendent Morley Donaldson of the Grand Trunk Railway said today that the removal of the coal chutes near the deep cut would probably be part of the plan for the construction by the railway of new and additionally large shops in Ottawa. The problem of coaling the engines was a big one, he stated, and some means would have to be found to take the place of the coal chutes, but during the summer they would, no doubt, be removed. | Ottawa Journal 1911-01-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1911-04-06 | Ottawa Central Station | A most peculiar accident occurred at the Union Depot, Ottawa, last Friday evening, when engine 1259, which was standing at the local chutes out in the yards, suddenly started to back up at great speed, and before anyone could reach it to shut off steam it dashed into the front of the engine on the Gatineau train which was slowly backing into the station. A remarkable part of the whole accident is that no one was near 1259 at the coal chutes, and no one was hurt. | Kemptville Weekly Advance 1911-04-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1911-05-05 | Chateau Laurier | The order for the china for the Chateau Laurier, the new Grand Trunk Hotel at Ottawa, has been awarded to the Theodore Haviland Co. of Limoges, France. This china is of a very handsome and unique pattern, and will be the best that can be turned out by this well known company, and includes Regular service, Banquet service, Palm Room or Tea Room service and a De Luxe set for use in the Royal Suite. | Eastern Ontario Review 1911-05-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1911-06-01 | Ottawa Central Station | Work on the new Central station has been set back owing to time lost in tearing down two arches at the rear of the edifice. It is understood that the architect objected to these two particular arches because they were too flat and therefore not strong enough to carry the material to be placed above them. A large gang of plasterers are at work within the building and the work is being rushed with all haste. | Ottawa Journal 1911-06-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1911-08-03 | Ottawa Central Station | Mayor Hopewell is daily hoping to get a letter from Mr. Hays, of the G.T.R., in reply to one he sent asking what progress is being made at the Central station. The mayor is anxious that provision should be made for plenty of room at the station when the Duke of Connaught arrives. If the station is not finished in time it is likely that some arrangements will be made whereby a temporary platform could be erected in some part of the city where there are Grand Trunk tracks, possibly in the vicinity of Elgin street. | Ottawa Journal 1911-08-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1911-08-17 | Ottawa Central Station | Mr. M. Donaldson, superintendent of the Ottawa division of the G.T.R., has assured the civic reception committee that the railway authorities will cooperate with the city in the reception to the Duke of Connaught. The new station will probably be formally opened on the day the new governor general arrives; the G.T.R. officials intend to attend to that part of the demonstration at the station, likely held in the large waiting room, which will accommodate 600 or 700 people. | Ottawa Journal 1911-08-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1911-08-21 | Chateau Laurier | An employee of the Dominion Bridge Company, was pushing a hand car, loaded with structural steel, when his foot slipped and he fell under the car which, passing over his leg, broke it. | Ottawa Journal 1911-08-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1911-09-06 | Ottawa Central Station | The removal of several of the local departments of the Grand Trunk Railway from the temporary station where they are now housed to the new station will, in all probability, says Mr. Morley Donaldson, superintendent of the Ottawa division of the Grand Trunk, positively take place about next month. About the end of September he will be in a position to say the last word on the matter. Most of the necessary finishings are completed in the new quarters but a few final touches are yet to be done. | Ottawa Journal 1911-09-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1911-10-02 | Ottawa Central Station | The large refrigerator to be installed in the restaurant in the new Grand Trunk station arrived on Saturday; the sections alone required a car to themselves, and it will take a staff of men about a month to install it and put the sections together. A large ammonia plant is to be used in running this huge ice-box, which will be divided into three compartments of different temperatures. The kitchen is nearly all ready for operation and the restaurant is expected to open in about a month's time. | Ottawa Journal 1911-10-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1911-10-10 | Ottawa Central Station | Saturday next will see the new G.T.R. station handed over to the regular station staff by the contractors. The flooring of the structure is now all down and only a few finishing touches have yet to be added. The railway commission will move into its new offices in the station inside a few weeks' time, while the G.T.R. office staff itself will be transferred as soon as possible. | Ottawa Citizen 1911-10-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1911-11-06 | Ottawa Central Station | It is positively assured that the Grand Trunk station will be opened by the middle of November. The different rooms are being furnished and the lighting fixtures are in place. The temporary station will be converted into a baggage room at the latter part of next week. Everything will be of the latest pattern and a new system of baggage checking will be introduced. | Ottawa Journal 1911-11-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1911-11-27 | Ottawa Central Station | Central station opening at Xmas. The general appearance of the new Central station is rapidly assuming a different aspect; the marble work is now being treated with an acid for cleaning it. Work in connection with the ticket office is also receiving attention, to be fitted up with red oak woodwork and six wickets for the sale of tickets; as there is no partition specified in the plan, it is likely that the directors of the Grand Trunk and the C.P.R. will have to call a meeting to decide which part of the office each will occupy. The mammoth refrigerator, which has taken six weeks to install, was tested this week with a water test and worked satisfactorily. The train shed is also being rapidly erected, all of steel with a fireproof glass top; the section closest to the annex is nearly completed and will be used as soon as the roof is put on. The contractors are trying to have the station open for Xmas and should succeed. | Ottawa Journal 1911-11-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1911-12-28 | Ottawa Central Station | For the specific purpose of looking over the Chateau Laurier and the new Central Station, Mr. Charles M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk, H.G. Kelley, vice-president, and a party of other prominent officials of the company arrived today from Montreal by special train. They returned this afternoon to Montreal. | Ottawa Journal 1911-12-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1912-01-05 | Ottawa Central Station | Two steel workers were injured during construction of the train shed. | Ottawa Journal 1912-01-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1912-01-17 | Ottawa Central Station | Delay in the opening of the new station; opening certain within the next two months. The delay is due to delay in delivery of materials. | Ottawa Journal 1912-01-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1912-05-29 | Ottawa Central Station | The C.N.R. is negotiating to use the G.T.R. Central station on the completion of the line from Ottawa to Toronto. | Ottawa Journal 1912-05-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1912-06-01 | Ottawa Central Station | A long existing want was filled for Ottawa this morning when the new Central station built by the Grand Trunk Railway Company was opened. There was no official ceremony in connection with the affair, Manager F.W. Bergmann simply opening the doors at the main entrance. The new Central Station, one of the finest of its kind in eastern Canada, was thrown open to the public on Saturday. | Ottawa Citizen 1912-06-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1912-06-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, same collection,...) |
| 1912-06-01 | Chateau Laurier | The Chateau Laurier, the magnificent new hostelry erected at a cost of over $1,000,000 by the Grand Trunk Railway, was opened this afternoon. There was no official ceremony; the bust of Sir Wilfrid Laurier in the rotunda of the hotel had been unveiled by Manager F.W. Bergmann the day before, with Sir Wilfrid himself present to see it. Every department of the new house was in good running order awaiting the arrival of the first guest. An informal dinner for newspapermen was given by the Grand Trunk in the Chateau that evening, with journalists from all over Canada and the United States present. | Ottawa Citizen 1912-06-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1913-03-11 | Chateau Laurier | The white marble bust of Sir Wilfred Laurier, which originally served to embellish the rotunda of the Chateau Laurier, suffered destruction recently at the customs bondhouse because of the refusal of the designer to pay about $240 duty on it. The bust was made in France, but in putting it into position at the Chateau one of the employees fractured the nose; unsuccessful efforts were made to remove all signs of the defect, so it was decided to order a new bust and return the former one to France. When informed the duty still had to be paid, it was decided the bust would remain in the bondhouse, where it lay for several months until the customs officers shattered it into bits. Members of the bondhouse staff rescued some of the pieces for souvenirs, but most of it went to the refuse heap. The new bust is now in position at the Chateau. | Ottawa Citizen 1913-03-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1913-03-14 | Renfrew Depot | The Grand Trunk station is looking a good deal better this week. The company's painters passed by last week, and cleaned up both inside and outside. | Renfrew Mercury 1913-03-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1914 | Eganville Depot | The Eganville station's "original building burned down in 1914 after 17 years service." The site "has been owned by a series of four railway companies"; the line, built by J. R. Booth, "was officially opened as the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railroad (OAPSR) in 1897". | Ottawa Journal 1977-12-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1914-08-18 | Ottawa Central Station | A new passenger train service began operating between Toronto and Ottawa over the new lines of the Canadian Northern Railway, daily except Sunday, with trains arriving and departing from the Central Station, Ottawa, located in the heart of the city. New equipment was used throughout, consisting of electric-lighted coaches and cafe parlour cars. The new line provided a service between Toronto, Ottawa, Richmond, Smiths Falls, Brockville, Portland, Chaffeys Locks and stations on the Brockville, Westport and Northwestern Railway, in addition to Napanee, Belleville, Trenton, Brighton, Cobourg, Port Hope and Oshawa. | The Toronto World 1914-08-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1915-02-03 | Ottawa Central Station | The report is still persistent that the C.P.R. is endeavouring to obtain further accommodation at the Central Station and use it as a terminal for several of the trains now running from the Union Station. C.P.R. officials in Ottawa declared they knew nothing of such a project. One railway man stated that while the C.P.R. would probably be glad to obtain facilities for more trains at the Central Station, it would hardly be possible, as the accommodation was already taxed almost to capacity with all the G.T.R., C.N.R., O. and N.Y., and eight C.P.R. trains daily. | Ottawa Journal 1915-02-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1915-04-05 | Ottawa Central Station | In spite of denials made at the head railway offices in Montreal of rumors that the C.P.R. is going to abandon the Broad Street Station and run all its trains to and from the Central Station, negotiations between the two companies were reliably reported to be nearing completion, with an arrangement possibly reached within a couple of weeks. The plans provided for abandoning the Broad Street Station entirely for passenger traffic, tearing down its buildings and using the yards for freight only; the C.P.R. would instead build new freight yards on land it had bought on Nicholas street, at a cost of $100,000. The trans-continental trains would back out of the Central Station and use the Parry Sound branch of the G.T.R. for a short distance to connect with the C.P.R. main line west of the city; the Gatineau trains would run in over the Alexandra Bridge, and the Prescott trains would run into the Central Station by way of Chaudiere Junction. | Ottawa Journal 1915-04-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1915-04-22 | Eganville Depot | As Mr. J.P. Smith, agent at the Grand Trunk Railway station at Eganville, sat in his office about eight o'clock in the evening, he heard a crackling sound from the adjoining freight shed and found flames sweeping through it. His wife was on the station platform; their invalid son was upstairs. Smith hurried up to get the boy and got him to safety; a few minutes later the shed and station buildings, built of wood, were a mass of flames. All the freight in the shed was destroyed, as was $50 in cash in the till, the company's papers, and the Smiths' furniture. The loss totalled about $6,000, covered by insurance; the cause was not known, though a carelessly-thrown cigarette stub was suspected. | Ottawa Citizen 1915-04-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Eganville Leader 1915-04-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, same collection,...) |
| 1915-07-14 | Alexandria Depot | The Grand Trunk station and restaurant at Alexandria, thirty-year-old structures as dry as tinder, were destroyed by fire this afternoon; by the time the brigade reached the scene the fire was already beyond control. The spread of the blaze was prevented, saving the freight shed and a number of adjoining factories and granaries, though the buildings destroyed were only ten feet apart from those saved. It is believed the fire was caused by sparks from a shunting engine. The contents of the buildings were practically all saved. | Montreal Gazette 1915-07-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Eastern Ontario Review 1915-07-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, same collection,...) |
| 1915-10-06 | Eganville Depot | Since the Eganville G.T.R. station was burned the company has substituted a second class coach for a waiting room. One individual remained inside until he missed his train, waiting for the coach to pull out. | Renfrew Mercury 1915-10-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1916-08-18 | Alexandria Depot | That Alexandria is to have a new G.T.R. station in the near future is evident from the fact that during the past week the grounds have been cleared and the station cars removed so as to enable the contractor, Mr. Carrigan of Montreal, to commence operations with least possible delay. | Glengarry News 1916-08-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1916-09-29 | Alexandria Depot | Work on the erection of the new Alexandria station is well under way, occupying the old site with considerable extension, more spacious and modern in every respect. The materials will be principally red pressed brick in Flemish bond for the upper structure and cement work in the basement, with hardwood lining to the interior; the platform on the track side, 420 feet long and 16 feet wide, will be composed of medal paving blocks between concrete curbs. The station will consist of baggage and express rooms at the east end over a basement of reinforced concrete, heated by a hot water boiler and furnace on the Taylor Forbes system, two waiting rooms with separate lavatories and tiled floors, and an operator's room with an upper storey and gable roof near the centre of the building. The whole building covers a frontage of 96 feet with an average width of 20 feet, the centre part one and a half storeys and the wings 14 feet high from the bottom of the cornice, with an asbestos-shingle roof intended to be fireproof, as indeed the entire station is meant to be. The work is scheduled for completion by December 1st, with the contractor employing local labor where possible. | Glengarry News 1916-09-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1917-02-09 | Alexandria Depot | The new Grand Trunk Station at Alexandria has been completed and the local staff expect to enter into possession early next week. The travelling public will be well satisfied with this change, as the cramped accommodation of a passenger coach has afforded very little comfort, especially during the winter months. | Glengarry News 1917-02-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1917-03-09 | Alexandria Depot | Mr. G.W. Shepherd, G.T.R. Agent, and his staff of assistants took possession of the new station, and the change of quarters is much appreciated by the employees and public generally. | Glengarry News 1917-03-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1917-06-22 | Eganville Depot | The G.T. Railway Co. has begun the erection of a new station at Eganville, to replace the one destroyed by fire two years ago. Considerable of the needed material is now on the ground and carpenters have arrived to begin work. The station and freight shed will be of a modern and somewhat pretentious character, measuring 108 by 33 feet. A separate residence for the agent will be erected at an estimated cost of $4,000. | Eganville Leader 1917-06-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1918-08-15 | Ottawa Freight Sheds | Fire broke out at the G.T.R. freight sheds near the Central Station, starting with an explosion in a freight car, and completely destroyed the sheds along with 28 cars, 20 of them loaded, in under forty minutes. The loss was estimated at $90,000 to $100,000, practically all covered by insurance, made up of 28 cars burned ($18,200), contents of twenty cars ($20,000), the frame freight sheds, 800 by 40 feet ($15,000), contents of the sheds ($35,000) and sundry other losses (about $10,000). Three men were injured in the explosions: caretaker Andrew Doherty, badly burned around the face and hands; porter Felix Bellefeuille, cut and burned on the face; and porter Albert Renaud, slightly burned. About forty other cars on nearby sidings, including the Governor General's private car, were pulled to safety. The Governor General's car was one of those pulled to safety; the fire, fought by multiple fire stations with high water pressure, also damaged a nearby residence but was kept from spreading to adjacent coal sheds and houses. | Ottawa Citizen 1918-08-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1920-03-24 | Ottawa Central Station | Changes costing some $60,000 are underway at the Central station: the train shed does not currently cover track No. 1, beside the Rideau Canal, and is being extended to the edge of the canal to cover it. This is the track used by through trains west and east, and when the changes are complete passengers can embark and disembark in comfort. The steel work is being done by the Dominion Bridge Co., starting about April 15th, with the entire work expected finished about June 15th, under the supervision of Mr. G.C. McCue, superintendent of bridges and buildings. As track No. 2 is immediately beside track No. 1, no trains will be allowed on Track 2 while a train is loading or unloading passengers on Track 1. | Ottawa Citizen 1920-03-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1920-04-09 | Ottawa Central Station | Jack Creighton, of Galetta, and Pete Quesnel, of Casselman, employed by the G.T.R. in the work of enlarging the train sheds at the Central Station terminal, were both seriously injured when a scaffold on which they were standing gave way and precipitated them to the ground. Quesnel fell on a pile of loosened boulders lying immediately below the scaffold and received painful injuries to his jaw and head as well as bruises about the body, while Creighton sustained a fractured hip. Both men were removed to St. Luke's hospital. | Ottawa Citizen 1920-04-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1920-05-17 | Ottawa Central Station | The steel work of the extension of the Central station train shed, which is being widened westward to the edge of the Rideau canal, has been completed, and today the work of the concrete men will start. The shed will not be completed for another month. When finished, passengers who formerly had to alight in the open, unless the train were run past the sheds and backed in, may now alight in the building the same as local trains. The improvement has cost a great many thousand dollars, but in added comfort and safety, railway officials state, will well warrant the extra expenditure. | Ottawa Citizen 1920-05-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1920-06-20 | Car Shops | The Ottawa car shops of the Canada Atlantic are building twenty-five platform cars for the St. Anthony Lumber Co. of Whitney. A fifteen mile branch line is also being constructed from Whitney to the Opeongo lakes for the purpose of bringing out logs for the lumber company. | Eganville Leader 1920-06-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1920-09-29 | Ottawa Central Station | The C.P.R. train from Vancouver to Montreal, pulling out of Ottawa's Union Station at 7 o'clock, was held up for about 45 minutes when the two end cars jumped the rails immediately under the Laurier Avenue bridge and travelled in that manner for about fifty feet before the train could be stopped. The train had not yet gathered speed; Engineer Geo. Gorman applied the brakes as soon as he saw the situation, and no damage occurred. Passengers, including women and children, were transferred to the other coaches before the train proceeded. The cause was not yet discovered, investigation being made more difficult since the derailment occurred immediately where the C.P.R. and the G.T.R. change ownership of the track. | Ottawa Citizen 1920-09-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1921-05-13≥ | Ottawa Central Station | By 13 May 1921 (the issue date), the paper reported: Mr. H. W. Lennox, manager of the Dominion Express Company in Ottawa, "has introduced at the Central Station a gasoline truck for removing express matter from the trains. The company has purchased a new Edison three wheeled tractor with a capacity for twenty tons, and already this tractor has proven that it can do the work of a large number of men. The tractor was used yesterday for the first time." | Ottawa Citizen 1921-05-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1921-06-24≤ | Hawkesbury Depot | From 24 June 1921 (the issue date), the paper announced: "The Government intends to shortly close the local station of the G.T.R. and use the C.N.R. station. Mr. E.C. Higginson has been appointed town ticket agent for the two companies, Mr. McCrea's office is to be closed." | Eastern Ontario Review 1921-06-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1921-09-23≥ | Hawkesbury Depot | By 23 September 1921 (the issue date), the paper reported: "An important event in town this week was the closing of the Grand Trunk station. Beginning on Thursday morning the Grand Trunk trains arriving or starting from Hawkesbury left at the CNR station. The schedule is not altered in any way." The G.T.R. staff was to be placed on the reserve list, and "it is also likely that the services of the watchman at the Main Street crossing will now be dispensed with." | Eastern Ontario Review 1921-09-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1921-09-30≥ | Hawkesbury Depot | By 30 September 1921 (the issue date), the paper reported: "The personnel of the G.T.R. station and freight office have mostly all been transferred to the C.N.R. station. Mr. Onesime Bertrand was moved to Davenport for a couple of months, while Mr. Partridge is not yet placed." | Eastern Ontario Review 1921-09-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1921-12-09≥ | Rockland Depot | By 9 December 1921 (the issue date), the paper reported: "The old Grand Trunk railway station in Rockland is to be closed, according to a judgment of the Board of Railway Commissioners. This step is one of the results of the consolidation of the G.T.R, and the C.N.R, both maintaining separate stations in Rockland at present." The municipality had objected because a grist and flour mill was close to it; the board granted the application on condition that the company keep the Grand Trunk tracks between the "Y" switch and the Grand Trunk station open as an industrial siding. | Eastern Ontario Review 1921-12-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1924-07-07≥ | Ottawa Central Station | By 7 July 1924 (the issue date), the paper reported: Bert Robinson, porter on the Ottawa-Toronto C.N.R. train service, "who was yesterday injured in the Central station yards when he fell off his train and was dragged a considerable distance, is recovering from his injuries... The car from which Robinson fell was being backed into the Central Station yard to be washed." | Ottawa Citizen 1924-07-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1924-08-29≥ | Caldwell Depot | By 29 August 1924 (the issue date), the paper reported: "The C.N.R. station at Caldwell, eight miles east of Eganville, was burned yesterday afternoon... The fire started on the station platform, but had gained considerable headway before being discovered." Most of the contents were saved. | Eganville Leader 1924-08-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1924-08-29≥ | Caldwell Freight Shed | By 29 August 1924 (the issue date), the paper reported: "The C.N.R. station at Caldwell, eight miles east of Eganville, was burned yesterday afternoon, together with the freight shed. Most of the contents were saved." | Eganville Leader 1924-08-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1926-10-28 | Ottawa Central Station | "11 car special CNR train for Queen Marie of Rumania arrives from Toronto and is backed into Union station at 10.30." | Ottawa Journal 1926-10-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1927-07-09≤ | Repair Shop | From 9 July 1927 (the issue date), the paper announced: "C.N.R. will close down the Ottawa East shops. 61 jobs lost. Goes into effect on Jul 15. Full article. Veterans going to Stratford, Montreal and Brockville." | Ottawa Journal 1927-07-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1928-05-14≥ | Ottawa Central Station | By 14 May 1928 (the issue date), the paper reported: The Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways "are carrying out improvements" to the Central Station. A reconstruction of the eastern wall of the Rideau canal, part of the station, "has recently been completed by the two railways": a concrete wall 2,900 feet long and 16 1/2 feet high, using about 6,000 cubic yards of concrete, much of it poured in zero weather. The wall from Sparks street to the train shed was raised and the wall of the train shed itself improved, and the main tracks within the station were changed temporarily. | Ottawa Citizen 1928-05-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1928-10-19≥ | Maria Street Bridge | By 19 October 1928 (the issue date), the paper reported: Sam Gallo, a former employee of the railway, was charged over a large rock wrapped in paper "thrown from the Laurier avenue bridge" on 17 October that "landed near" John J. Burke, a Canadian National switchman operating a switch for outgoing passenger trains; a similar stone had been thrown on 3 October. The C.N. special agent found that "several switches had been opened"; Gallo had a switch key when arrested. The charges included attempted murder. | Ottawa Citizen 1928-10-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1928-10-30≥ | Maria Street Bridge | By 30 October 1928 (the issue date), the paper reported: Sam Gallo "was committed for trial by Magistrate William Joynt on a charge of attempted murder. The case arises out of a large pavement block thrown from the Laurier avenue bridge on October 17. The stone landed near John James Burke, a Canadian National Railway switchman who was turning a switch." The stone weighed 8 1/2 pounds. | Ottawa Citizen 1928-10-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |