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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1891-10 | Canada Atlantic Box 4000-4199 except {4003, 4006, 4007, 4008, 4017, 4024, 4025, 4028, 4043, 4046, 4049, 4051, 4059, 4063, 4064, 4065} | First listed in ORER | ORER 1891-09, ORER 1891-10 |
| 1891-10-06 | Glen Robertson | A train was thrown off the track on the Canada Atlantic near Glen Robertson this morning, and two railway navvies were very seriously injured: an engine and some freight cars with tools and navvies left Glen Robertson, and had been going only a few minutes when the train was suddenly stopped by a tree across the track. The engine did not leave the track, but the cars carrying the navvies were thrown down an embankment; Dominique Duplino and Sept Turette each had their legs broken, and one was badly injured on the head. Both were sent to Montreal, arriving on the 11.20 train at Bonaventure Station, where the General Hospital ambulance carried the sufferers to hospital; doctors amputated one of Duplino's legs. | Montreal Daily Witness 1891-10-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1891-10-08≤ | Hawkesbury Branch | The Central Counties Railway will be completed to Hawkesbury about the 25th of this month. | Ottawa Journal 1891-10-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1891-10-23 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Some people around Arnprior were beginning to wonder whether the proposed railway from Ottawa to Arnprior and Parry Sound wasn't all an election dodge. | Almonte Gazette 1891-10-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1891-10-25 | Ottawa | The blacksmith's bellows in the C.A.R. shop at Ottawa filled with gas and exploded, throwing heavy irons across the shop; one piece struck Nelson Dio a heavy blow just above the right eye, cutting a gash three inches long in the scalp. | Almonte Gazette 1891-10-25(No more specific location entity than Ottawa is na...) |
| 1891-10-26 | Vankleek Hill | The contractor is busy building the station for the Central Counties Railway. | Ottawa Journal 1891-10-26(Location not stated in the source; filed on Vankle...) |
| 1891-10-29 | Hawkesbury Branch | On Monday of this week the rails of the Central Counties Railway were laid into Hawkesbury village, completing 21 miles from Glen Robertson Junction with the Canada Atlantic. The contractors, Messrs. M.J. O'Brien, executed the work with unusual dispatch: grading commenced July 16th and the last rail was laid three months and ten days from that date. Ballasting is about finished to Vankleek Hill (14 miles), and passenger trains will be put on that portion on or before November 15. | Ottawa Journal 1891-10-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1891-11-18 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | A special committee of the City Council on shunting grievances met, with Marcus Smith representing residents; Mr. John McRae had suggested the C.A.R. come up the east side of the canal to a projected Central depot at Sappers Bridge, or carry the road along the canal bank near the Exhibition grounds to reach the Chaudiere extension. Ald. Cunningham objected this would require costly new road-building and that a Central depot was premature without an Ottawa River bridge; he noted the incoming Arnprior railway would strike the city near the Experimental Farm, complicating any C.A.R. relocation. Marcus Smith called the shunting nuisance 'an outrage' and threatened an injunction if unaddressed; Ald. Cox noted the company had land near Elgin Street, used as a 'car pasture', that could become a shunting yard. It was resolved to get the city solicitor's written opinion, and for the mayor and solicitor to attend the Railway Committee of the Privy Council on the 24th regarding the C.A.R.'s proposed charter amendment. | Ottawa Journal 1891-11-18(A prior committee meeting on the same grievance (1...),Ottawa Citizen 1891-11-10(Says the meeting was on 'C.A. Railway matters' see...) |
| 1891-11-18≤ | Unidentified Locomotives 0 | The rolling stock of the Canada Atlantic railway is being added to by a large freight locomotive which goes into service next week. | Ottawa Free Press 1891-11-18(No number given, filed against the unidentified-lo...) |
| 1891-11-20 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A trunk line is now being built from Ottawa to Parry Sound (210 miles total), of which forty miles are now under contract to Mr. Reid of Montreal, to be completed next year; the road will probably strike Ottawa near the Experimental Farm, traversing Nepean, March and Fitzroy townships to Arnprior, then the Bonnechere valley through McNab and Admaston to Eganville, then Nipissing and Parry Sound districts to the port of Parry Sound. Two charters make up the line: Ottawa to Arnprior, headed by McLaughlin Brothers, and Arnprior to Parry Sound, in the hands of Mr. John R. Booth. Western grain-elevator interests were said to favour the scheme and offered to build elevators at Parry Sound and other points; Hon. C.F. Fraser of Brockville was reportedly advocating a connecting line from Brockville to this trunk line. | Ottawa Journal 1891-11-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1891-11-20≥ | Hawkesbury Branch | The first train over the new branch of the Canada Atlantic railway from Glen Robertson to Hawkesbury, on the Ottawa river, passed last week. The line, however, is not yet graded. | Mercury 1891-11-20(Renfrew Mercury per Churcher's header. Transcribed...) |
| 1891-12-02 | Hawkesbury Branch | In a very few days the Canada Atlantic Railway's two latest enterprises will be in full swing. Ballasting of the 21-mile branch from Glen Robertson to Hawkesbury was completed yesterday and the road is now ready to be formally transferred by the contractors to the company; it will give railway facilities to a fine farming section besides connecting a couple of villages with the main line, and will likely open this week. | Ottawa Citizen 1891-12-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) |
| 1891-12-02≤ | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | About the 10th inst. the road expects to open from Valleyfield to Malone, N.Y. It is thirty-one miles long and will give the Canada Atlantic Railway independent connection with the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain division of the Central Vermont system and, if the New York Central's proposed northern extension from Herkimer is carried out, with that railway's trunk line too. | Ottawa Citizen 1891-12-02(No subdivision entity identified for this Valleyfi...) |
| 1891-12-31 | The Central Counties Railway Company | Indenture by Canada Atlantic Ry to lease the Hawkesbury section for 99 years. | CNRHist |
| 1891? | Hawkesbury Branch | William H. Taylor recalled "the building of the C.A.R. branch line between Hawkesbury and Glen Robertson, forty-six years ago", when he was firing for James Casey and the train crew was distributing the steel. "Mr. J. O'Brien was the contractor while his brother John, was walking boss. Frank Hibbert was the civil engineer and George Root was his assistant." "The job was started about the middle of August and completed about the middle of December"; headquarters were for the greater part of the time at Vankleek Hill. | Ottawa Citizen 1937-07-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1891? | Valleyfield | William H. Taylor recalled the picnic excursions to Clark's Island, opposite Valleyfield, "back in the gay nineties": he "fired the engine which pulled the train of twenty-two coaches on the first of those jolly excursions about the year 1891". The engine was decked with flags and bunting, with crowds at every station; Herman Kirk was engineer, and Jimmy Dean, overseer of the company water service, canvassed merchants so that "there was never a lack of prizes". "Each and every one of those picnics was a decided success." | Ottawa Citizen 1937-07-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892 | Parry Sound Colonization Railway #2 - William Beatty | Acquired as PSC 2 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1892 | Canada Atlantic Second Class Coach 34 | Built by Crossen | Lepkey p301 |
| 1892 | Scotia Junction | Survey completed Ottawa to Scotia Junction | Bell p49 |
| 1892 to 1896 | Edward Fauquier | The Fauquier brothers worked for J. R. Booth on several contracts from 1892 to 1896, including the difficult section from Barry's Bay to Scotia. | Churcher https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Research%20Notes/Renfrew%20Lemkay%20research.pdf |
| 1892 to 1896 | Gilbert Fauquier | The Fauquier brothers worked for J. R. Booth on several contracts from 1892 to 1896, including the difficult section from Barry's Bay to Scotia. | Churcher https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Research%20Notes/Renfrew%20Lemkay%20research.pdf |
| 1892-01-04 | The Central Counties Railway Company | Line opened from Hawkesbury to Glen Robertson, 21 miles | CNRHist |
| 1892-01-15 | Middle Subdivision | The survey of the O.A. & P.S. line reached Egan's Farm on the Madawaska. The Ottawa Free Press (Jan 9) put this about twelve miles west of Bark Lake, the country lately passed through being reported unusually fine and admirably suited to railroad building. The Almonte Gazette (Jan 15) said Mr. Mountain's survey party had reached the same point, about twenty miles west of Bark Lake, and that from Renfrew to Egan's Farm the line was one of the most favorable he had travelled over. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-01-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Almonte Gazette 1892-01-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-02-18≥ | Hawkesbury Branch | By 18 February 1892, the lease of the Hawkesbury branch of the Central Counties Railway to the Canada Atlantic Railway had been confirmed at a meeting of the shareholders of the Central Counties Railroad. | Ottawa Journal 1892-02-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-03-11 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Mr. George A. Mountain, chief of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway surveying party, and his staff of twenty-four men returned to Ottawa, having left on November 20, 1891 and surveyed 120 miles of road while travelling over 500 miles of rough, unsettled country through the Nipissing district (largely on snowshoes, dragging supplies on sleds); the cost of the expedition was estimated at about $60 per day. Mr. Mountain stated his report would be very favorable and that he had no doubt construction would begin in the spring; his plans were to be presented to Mr. J.R. Booth the following week. The country's most valuable product was noted to be its forests of maple, birch and beech, and Mr. Mountain brought back ore specimens believing nickel and silver to be the district's principal minerals. | Mercury 1892-03-11(Renfrew Mercury, quoting the Ottawa Free Press. Tr...) |
| 1892-03-12 | Unidentified Locomotives 0 | A new locomotive of powerful build arrived in the freight department of the Canada Atlantic railway, and was to be put into service at once. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-03-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-04-02 | Vars | There was quite a stir at the Vars railway station recently, when Mr. R. A. Nelson and Mr. J. Armstrong of Bearbrook were loading a car of settlers' effects for Manitoba, where they were going to make their home in future. | Ottawa Journal 1892-04-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-04-08 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A deputation (Warden Kidd, Dr. Groves, James Wilson and D. McElroy) presented Mr. J.R. Booth with plans for an alternate survey of the line through Huntley and Fitzroy townships, claimed to be shorter and cheaper than the route the company had fixed on, along with subscription lists for right of way through Huntley ($5,000) and an estimate for Fitzroy ($7,000); Booth agreed to look into it and forward the plans to Mr. Mountain. Separately, it was reported that surveyors were selecting a route from Shawville to Renfrew, and that Booth intended to acquire the Pontiac and Pacific Junction Railway from Shawville and build a branch to Renfrew to meet the original O.A. & P.S. survey there, doing away with the proposed direct line between Ottawa and Arnprior; the P.P.J.'s directors were said to be anxious to sell. | Ottawa Journal 1892-04-04(Also quoted verbatim in the Almonte Gazette of 8 A...),Ottawa Free Press 1892-04-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1892-04-08(Renfrew Mercury; substantially the same deputation...) |
| 1892-04-08 | Carp | A delegation from Carp waited on Mr. J.R. Booth with subscription lists totalling nearly $5,000, offered as assistance if the line to Arnprior passed through Huntley Township and touched Carp. Booth explained that the road was first projected to run direct from Ottawa to Arnprior and on to Renfrew, but that the Pontiac and Pacific Junction road, as far as completed, was now on the market and its owners were pressing the company to buy it on favourable terms, so much so that engineers had been sent to run a trial line from Portage du Fort to Renfrew; Arnprior's apathy over its own contribution could injuriously affect where the line was located. Booth stated it was the company's intention to touch Galetta, and that a trial line would be run at once from Carp for that purpose. | Almonte Gazette 1892-04-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-04-14 | Rideau Canal Wharves | Extensive new docks were being erected by the C.A.R. Co. along the Rideau canal, on the west side between Ottawa East and the railway bridges and on the east side from near the Independent Coal company's yard. The docks were intended for the transshipment of lumber on to American barges bound for Whitehall and were to have 900 feet frontage altogether. Some thirty men were engaged in the work of building. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-04-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-04-15 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Dr. Dowling, M.P.P., introduced a deputation consisting of J.R. Booth, ex-mayor McDougall and F. Fleck of Ottawa, along with several local men, to ask the government for aid in building the part of the O.A. & P.S. line running through colonization and unorganized districts, which had no rail service to fifteen townships. The matter was promised due consideration. Separately, Arnprior papers were trying to stir up public interest in having the line routed through Arnprior rather than reaching Renfrew by way of the Pontiac and Pacific Junction R.R. and a branch across the Ottawa River from Shawville, as was then proposed. | Mercury 1892-04-15(Renfrew Mercury. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher ...) |
| 1892-04-28 | Rideau Canal Wharves | The new wharves which the C.A.R. were erecting along the canal were almost complete. When the rails were laid, cars would be able to be loaded from the barges. | Ottawa Journal 1892-04-28("The new wharves which the C.A.R. are erecting alo...),Ottawa Citizen 1892-04-28("The C.A. Railway company have about completed the...) |
| 1892-04-29≥ | Middle Subdivision | By late April 1892 the surveyors had finished the survey between Shawville and Renfrew, and had brought the two places within fourteen miles of each other. On May 27, ratepayers of Arnprior were to vote on a by-law authorizing the corporation to take $30,000 of stock in the company. | Almonte Gazette 1892-04-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Almonte Gazette 1892-05-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-05-07 | Unidentified Locomotives 0 | Two extra heavy locomotives for freight hauling purposes were added to the rolling stock of the Canada Atlantic railway. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-05-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-05-18 | Hawkesbury | The heavy trestlework across the hollow has been completed and a track now runs right into the Lumber Company's yards. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-05-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-05-18 | Hawkesbury | The station grounds, which a little less than a year ago was little better than a swamp, had been converted at no inconsiderable outlay for grading and filling into as pretty a piece of railway property as one would wish to see. The yards were commodious and convenient, affording exceptionally good facilities for the handling and shipment of freight. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-05-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-05-27 | The Central Counties Railway Company | A deputation from Glengarry and Prescott counties waited upon the Government and asked for a subsidy for the Central Counties Railway, which runs from Glen Robertson to Hawkesbury. | Morrisburg Courier 1892-05-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-06-03 | Eganville | Mr. James Reeves of Eganville received a letter from Mr. J.R. Booth explaining why the line could not be brought through the village of Eganville itself: Mountain's plans showed the town route would require a heavier grade than anywhere else on the line and a bad curve, adding about $24,000 to the cost, and Booth feared the railway would eventually be forced to adopt the lighter-grade route anyway. He hoped Eganville's people would help get the road started as soon as possible by providing right of way, and asked that the line come via Eganville, Renfrew and Arnprior, saying the municipalities' action on this would materially affect which route the company adopted. | Mercury 1892-06-03(Renfrew Mercury, quoting the Eganville Enterprise....) |
| 1892-06-06 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The Canada Atlantic Railway ran a press trip to Montreal via Clark's Island and the Lachine Rapids, which included a ride in the cab of engine No. 14, described as the fastest engine at present owned by the company. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-06-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-06-17 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The by-law granting a bonus of $30,000 to the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound R.R. received its third reading in the Arnprior council; the money was to be paid over once the council received a guarantee that the new road would remain wholly independent of the C.P.R., or any other railway under its control, for thirty years. The same day, Mr. Fleck, secretary of the company, went to Arnprior and handed over the bonds and agreements made with the company, the resulting debentures being placed with the Bank of Ottawa. | Almonte Gazette 1892-06-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1892-06-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-06-22 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The C.A.R. found it impossible to provide a sufficient number of cars for its annual employees' picnic to Clarke's Island, originally set for June 27th, and the picnic was indefinitely postponed. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-06-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1892-08-24("It seems as if the Canada Atlantic employees were...) |
| 1892-06-30 | Bank Street | A collision occurred between a Canada Atlantic freight train and electric car No. 23 at the crossing: the train, going down to the Chaudiere, stopped at the crossing, and the cars reversed on the rebound. | Ottawa Journal 1892-06-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-07 | Canada Atlantic First Class Coach 33 | Built by Crossen | Lepkey p301 |
| 1892-07 | Scotia Junction | Booth tours line from Bear Lake to Scotia Junction | Bell p50 |
| 1892-07 | Middle Subdivision | The first sod in the construction of the line was turned at Carp towards the end of July 1892, by Mr. George Kidd, MPP, then warden of the county. | Ottawa Journal 1896-10-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Brockville Recorder 1896-11-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-07-06 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The C.A.R. placed Mr. Peter Robinson's patent gravity bolt on a portion of their line near the Elgin street depot, in order to make a fair test of its efficacy. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-07-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-07-06 | Ottawa | The C.A. Ry. made temporary repairs to the bridge over the railway at Bell Street, where several large holes in the planking had made it extremely dangerous to horses, and boarding missing between the flooring and handrails had made the bridge perilous to children. | Ottawa Journal 1892-07-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-07-07 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The management of the Bell St. and McLeod St. Sunday schools arranged with the Canada Atlantic Railway to hold an excursion and picnic to Eastman's Springs on Friday, July 8th. Trains were to leave Elgin street station at 8 a.m. and 2.15 p.m., and the C.A. Railway consented to have two coaches leave from Lebreton street at 7.30 a.m. to accommodate excursionists from Mount Sherwood. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-07-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-07-07 | Middle Subdivision | The contract for the first 40 miles of the line from Ottawa was let to Mr. Fauquier of Toronto, the lowest of twelve tenderers, four of which were very close in price. | Ottawa Journal 1892-07-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1892-07-15(Renfrew Mercury, quoting the Ottawa Journal, with ...) |
| 1892-07-19 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The first sod of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway was turned at 7 a.m. on July 19, 1892 at Mr. Wm. Rivington's farm about half a mile east of Carp village, before a large crowd. The ceremony was performed by G.N. Kidd, Warden of Carleton County, witnessed by chief engineer George A. Mountain and his engineering staff, contractors Fauquier Bros., and numerous local dignitaries and Ottawa guests. That evening the warden hosted a champagne supper for about thirty of those who had worked to have the line located through Huntley township, with toasts to the Queen, to company president John R. Booth (answered in his absence by Mr. Charles Mohr, Reeve of Fitzroy), and to the engineering staff. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-07-19("The work of the construction of the Ottawa and Pa...),Almonte Gazette 1892-07-22(Detailed account of ground-breaking and the evenin...),Almonte Gazette 1892-07-29(Fuller account of the same ceremony and supper, na...) |
| 1892-07-22 | Rideau Canal Wharves | Mr. J.R. Booth's large wharf at St. Louis' dam was rapidly approaching completion, extending from Foster's tannery to the centre of the roadway leading to the Experimental farm; the facing was finished and the inside was being filled with gravel. A channel was to be dredged alongside so lumber could be shipped from Booth's yards by boat via the Rideau Canal, and it would also be shipped by rail, as sidings from the C.A.R. were being laid to the wharf. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-07-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-07-26 | Unidentified Freight Cars | A most complete wrecking car had just been completed at the C.A.R. workshops. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-07-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-07-26 | W.G.Cole | Conductor Cole was transferring to Coteau to take charge of the Coteau–Boston train. | Ottawa Journal 1892-07-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-07-27 | Galetta Depot | Mr. George Whyte of Galetta granted the railway company sufficient land on which to erect a depot at Galetta; the people of Galetta were said to be "in ecstasies over the prospect of the railway entering the town". | Ottawa Free Press 1892-07-27(Mr. M. Haig, returned from Carp, speaking to the F...),Almonte Gazette 1892-07-29(Carp News, quoting an Ottawa paper. Transcribed by...) |
| 1892-07-28 | Rideau Junction | Shepherd and Morse completed one of their large sheds at their Rideau yard, for the storing of lumber; the other shed was to be completed shortly. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-07-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-07-29 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | At a Renfrew public meeting called after rumours that the C.P.R. would build a rival line to Parry Sound, Mr. Jas. Craig said the O.A. & P.S. was now under construction, and that part of the right of way between Renfrew and Eganville had been purchased; he was authorized to say the O.A. & P.S. would be built to Renfrew without costing the town a cent. Mr. P. Devine added that Mr. Booth had assured some Renfrew gentlemen that the line would be completed to Renfrew by September 1893, or earlier. | Mercury 1892-07-29(Renfrew Mercury, reporting a public meeting of Ren...) |
| 1892-08-05≥ | John Rudolphus Booth | By the issue of August 5, 1892, John Rudolphus Booth had purchased the plant, lumber mill, yards and water power of Messrs. Perley and Pattee at the Chaudiere, the first practical step in improvements to the terminal facilities of the C.A.R. reportedly contemplated by Booth. It was impossible for Booth to extend the C.A.R. to his mill platform except by acquiring the Perley & Pattee mill property; a track could now be extended from the then terminus of the C.A.R. at Bridge street to Booth's lumber yard and across the slides into the mill property. Booth was to take possession of the newly acquired property at the end of the sawing season, and many of Perley and Pattee's employees had received notice that their services would not be required after the following fall. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-08-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-08-23 | Middle Subdivision | The C.A. Railway company were getting out ties for the Ottawa and Parry Sound road, cut down the line of the C.A.R. and shipped to Stittsville for hauling to the construction. It was also rumoured that the C.A.R. would shortly purchase land from Mr. Stewart on which to erect workshops. | Ottawa Journal 1892-08-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1892-08-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-08-24 | Unidentified Passenger Cars | The Canada Atlantic Railway company was having a dozen handsome new passenger coaches manufactured for the line. A couple of them had arrived that week and were in the yard between Elgin and Bank streets. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-08-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-08-26≥ | Mississippi River Bridge | Construction began on the O.A. & P.S. railway bridge over the Mississippi River at Galetta, using limestone quarried at Pakenham and floated to the site on a scow towed by a small steamer. The bridge's "corner stone" was placed on Monday, September 5, 1892, and by late October the two shore abutments were finished and the centre pier well advanced, with all the masonry complete and ready for the iron work by October 27. | Almonte Gazette 1892-08-26("The building of the railway bridge at Galetta has...),Mercury 1892-09-09(Renfrew Mercury: corner stone placed "on Monday" (...),Mercury 1892-10-28(Renfrew Mercury: two shore abutments finished, cen...),Ottawa Journal 1892-10-27("All the masonry work on the Ottawa and Parry Soun...) |
| 1892-08-31 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | J.R. Booth decided to route the Parry Sound road through Pembroke. | Ottawa Journal 1892-08-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-09-03 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The C.A.R. held its sixth annual excursion and picnic for employees at Clark Island Park on Saturday, September 3, 1892. Twenty-one cars, carrying some 900 C.A.R. employees, their families, friends and the general public, left the C.A.R. depot on Elgin Street at 7 a.m., with connections made by a train leaving Broad street crossing at 6.30 a.m. and stopping at Lebreton street; Mr. W. Codd held the refreshment contract and ran a special dining car on the train and large marquees on the grounds. The engine was No. 61, decorated with red, white and blue ribbons. About 1,500 persons were expected in the park that day. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-08-31("The picnic of the C.A.R. employees to Clark Islan...),Ottawa Free Press 1892-09-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1892-09-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1892-09-03(Day-of report confirming the departure and car cou...),Ottawa Citizen 1892-09-05("Clark Island picnic, 21 cars with engine No. 61. ...),Ottawa Journal 1892-09-06(Brief follow-up confirming twenty-one cars were us...) |
| 1892-09-03 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #665 | Engine No. 61 hauled the 21-car special train of the C.A.R. employees' picnic to Clark Island, prettily decorated with red, white and blue ribbons. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-09-05("Clark Island picnic, 21 cars with engine No. 61. ...) |
| 1892-09-13≥ | Chaudiere Branch | By 13 September 1892, twenty carloads of lumber had left the Chaudiere junction of the Canada Atlantic railway for Montreal and American points. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-09-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-09-16 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | At a meeting of Eganville ratepayers held September 16, 1892 to consider a bonus for the rival C.P.R. Atlantic & North-Western line, Mr. James Reeves read a letter from Mr. J.R. Booth saying that he was determined on pushing on his road (the O.A. & P.S.) as rapidly as possible. Booth said that if the townships put out enough money to buy the right-of-way through them, some grading would be done and contracts let for timber and tie contracts for a 50 mile radius. | Mercury 1892-09-30(Renfrew Mercury, reporting the September 16 meetin...),Eganville Leader 1892-09-30(Fuller account of the same meeting and letter, inc...) |
| 1892-09-30 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | It was reported that Mr. Booth had purchased the Parry Sound Colonization Railway — the line from the Northern Railway to Parry Sound, which had at one time been reported to be under C.P.R. control. | Eganville Leader 1892-09-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-10 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | Booth's acquisition announced. | Bell pp.45-52 |
| 1892-10-07 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | At the annual meeting of the Ottawa & Parry Sound Railway Company, the following were elected directors: Messrs. J.D. Booth, Claude McLachlin, Charles Mohr, Wm. Anderson, C.J. Booth, N. Mackintosh and J.F. Booth. Separately that week, at a meeting of the Ottawa Board of Trade, Mr. A.W. Fleck applied for a city bonus for the railway; Mr. Mountain (the road's engineer) and Mr. C.J. Smith (traffic manager of the Canada Atlantic Railway) spoke on the trade it would develop and the benefits to Ottawa, and Mountain said contracts had been let for the first portion of the road, to be completed by October 20. The Board resolved to ask City Council to submit a by-law for $125,000: $100,000 for stock in the railway and $25,000 toward a grand central railway depot. | Almonte Gazette 1892-10-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1892-10-07(Renfrew Mercury, on the Board of Trade meeting. Tr...) |
| 1892-10-10 | Middle Subdivision | Work began on the Ottawa terminus of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound railway at Rochester street, connecting with the C.A.R. line running from the Elgin street depot to the Chaudiere. About thirty-five men began grading a curve near the Rochester street crossing, supplied by ballast trains from Hurdman's Cut; some seventy to eighty men including twenty-one stonecutters worked preparing stone for a high bridge to carry the line over Preston street, about equal in height to the existing Chaudiere-extension bridge. By October 20 more than half the Preston street trestle (to be 1,100 feet long and about twenty-eight feet high, with concrete piers) was complete, and grading had been broken as far west as St. Mary's church in Bayswater. By October 24 the trestle over Preston street and the old St. Lawrence and Ottawa track was nearly finished, with ballast trains emptied every fifteen minutes to fill the dump alongside it. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-10-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1892-10-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1892-10-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-10-14≥ | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | By mid-October 1892 the Ottawa & Parry Sound Railway was progressing, with bright prospects for the future. The Board of Trade of Ottawa, at a meeting held a few nights before, had strongly recommended that the city grant the new road a bonus of $125,000, this being thought due it as opening up a direct route from the Great Lakes to the sea by way of Ottawa, and as part of the Canada Atlantic railway system, whose management had always been friendly and liberal. | Almonte Gazette 1892-10-14(Quoting the Renfrew Journal. Transcribed by Colin ...) |
| 1892-10-22 | Unidentified Locomotives 0 | Two more engines of popular build were added to the rolling stock of the Canada Atlantic railway. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-10-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-10-27 | Rockland Branch | A public meeting was held to consider a bonus for a branch from South Indian. W.C. Edwards, an advocate of railways, argued the Montreal and Ottawa would be the best choice; it was decided to wait to see what Clarence township would do. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-10-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-10-27 | Preston Street Bridge over CPR | Work on the Preston street trestle stopped at the boundary of C.P.R. land (the old St. Lawrence & Ottawa Railway limits) after the C.P.R. objected to any building on ground under its control; if insisted on, this would require a steel bridge with a span of over one hundred feet instead. Negotiations were pending between Mr. Booth, the O.A. & P.S. company and the C.P.R., with an amicable arrangement hoped for. | Ottawa Free Press 1892-10-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-10-29 | Coteau Junction Station | A joint station for the G.T.R. and C.A.R. was being constructed at Coteau. Mr. Tomlinson, of Ottawa, was the contractor; the cost was to be about $4,000. | Ottawa Journal 1892-10-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-10-31 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The O.A. & P.S.'s application for two crossings over the C.P.R. (an overhead crossing near the Experimental Farm and a level crossing in Nepean township, some six miles west of Ottawa) was argued at length before the Railway Committee of the Privy Council over several sessions in late October, 1892. The O.A. & P.S. (represented by A.J. Christie, Q.C., with Mr. Booth and chief engineer Mountain attending) argued a 40-foot span was sufficient for the overhead crossing and that a level crossing in Nepean was safe and far cheaper (about $3,680 versus roughly $34,000-$40,000 for an overhead bridge); the C.P.R. (represented by ex-Judge Clarke and vice-president T.G. Shaughnessy) argued for a 100-foot span and against the level crossing as dangerous, citing the grade and calling several of its engineers and a conductor as witnesses. Government engineer Mr. Schreiber's report slightly favoured the level crossing. The committee reserved its decision. | Ottawa Journal 1892-10-28(First day's hearing. Transcribed by Colin J. Churc...),Ottawa Citizen 1892-10-29(Second day's hearing. Transcribed by Colin J. Chur...),Ottawa Citizen 1892-10-31(Third day's hearing (Oct 29 morning/evening sessio...) |
| 1892-11-01 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | In connection with the claim that bonusing the O., A. & P.S. railway would be a paying investment for the city, the pay roll of the C.A.R. was cited: about 300 men employed at Ottawa, monthly wages $16,000, total monthly wages $20,000, and about 280 workingmen on construction. | Ottawa Journal 1892-11-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-11-01 | Elgin Street | A large number of people visited the Elgin Street depot to view the engine and car of the Vermont Central road, which had run in the night before to take home Col. Smith, president of that road, and his party, who had come up on the C.A.R. the previous day on a pleasure trip, their special train following them from St. Albans; they left at noon for home. The engine, never before seen in the area, had been turned out that spring from the Schenectady locomotive works and was capable of 70 miles an hour, commonly run at a mile a minute; it was named the St. Lawrence and had attached to it the Bellevue, Col. Smith's private car. | Ottawa Journal 1892-11-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-11-04≥ | Wilno | By November 4, 1892, considerable trouble was expected between the C.P.R. and the O. & P.S. railway companies near Adam Prince's, close to Wilno, where there was only one pass between two large mountains and both companies claimed the right to run their line through it. Mr. Mountain, chief engineer for the O. & P.S., had already purchased all the land in the vicinity, held the deeds, and posted notices forbidding trespass. | Mercury 1892-11-04(Renfrew Mercury, quoting the Eganville Star. Trans...) |
| 1892-11-11 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | Another New Railway. The Pembroke Observer reported a rumour that a number of local capitalists were arranging to apply to parliament for a charter to build a railway from Pembroke to Haliburton, some 80 to 100 miles, to connect at Haliburton with the Victoria branch of the Grand Trunk railway (which runs from Orillia), the Midland Railway running from Orillia to the Georgian Bay at Waubaushene. | Almonte Gazette 1892-11-11(Quoting the Pembroke Observer. Transcribed by Coli...) |
| 1892-11-18 | Ottawa Central Station | Mr. J.R. Booth, who was building the Ottawa and Parry Sound railway, agreed to construct a central station in Ottawa if given $50,000 by the city; he was to take the bonus and build the depot himself, including land for car shops. | Ottawa Journal 1892-11-14(Earlier, terser report of the same negotiation: "M...),Almonte Gazette 1892-11-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-11-18 | Middle Subdivision | A dynamite explosion during construction of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound railway, near St. Mary's church in Rochesterville/Nepean township just outside Ottawa, killed Jule(s) Therien and fatally injured Thomas Brown, who died at hospital the same day; windows were smashed and furniture overturned in surrounding buildings in Rochesterville, and the shock was felt as far as New Edinburgh. Two coroner's inquests returned verdicts that the men died of the explosion, with no evidence of its cause and no blame attached to any individual; witnesses suggested a spark or dropped tool may have set off a box of caps near a fire where dynamite cartridges were being thawed. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-11-19(Detailed report with inquest testimony, published ...),Almonte Gazette 1892-11-25(Shorter account (naming the victim 'Julius Therein...) |
| 1892-12-01 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | A newspaper report on Mr. J.W. McRae's scheme for a railway belt line around Ottawa, connecting with the Canada Atlantic Railway's spur line, criticized the original siting of the C.A.R.'s Elgin Street station: "the bridge across the canal should have been placed in a position for the trains to run directly into the station without crossing Elgin street, and there they should have stopped, then gone back to a point on the line west of the Rideau River, and constructed the railway to the Chaudiere on the route suggested for the belt line, which would have cost less than the present line and avoided all the difficulties that have occurred from the blunder of the present location." The article also noted that Mr. Booth's contemplated workshops, engine house and yard, sited on the belt line, would need about 50 acres of land "outside the city all together free from any road crossings whatever, and not near any dwellings." | Ottawa Citizen 1892-12-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-12-03≥ | Middle Subdivision | A contract was reported given out for building the Parry Sound railway from Eganville to Barrington's Bay (Barry's Bay), with cutting of the right of way to be done that winter. By December 3, Mr. Bruce and a company of O.A. & P.S. surveyors were in Eganville locating the company's line above the village. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-11-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1892-12-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-12-09 | Bells Corners Bridge over CPR | About twenty men were employed constructing a high crossing over the main C.P.R. line near Bell's Corners, raised twenty-three feet above the track (enough for a man standing on a freight car to pass underneath a moving train); the structure was to cost $40,000. | Almonte Gazette 1892-12-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-12-16 | Middle Subdivision | Grading of the roadbed between Ottawa and Arnprior was completed, and track-laying was being pushed ahead: the iron had been put down to a point four miles outside Ottawa, and two miles of track were laid from the old St. Lawrence and Ottawa crossing. Once the trestle over the C.P.R. was completed, rail-laying was to proceed with vigour. In the last week of December, the engineering staff began the survey from Arnprior to Renfrew; Mr. Mountain found the route would be easy to construct, over level country, crossing the C.P.R. a short distance west of Arnprior and taking a direct line to Renfrew via New Glasgow. | Mercury 1892-12-16(Renfrew Mercury. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher ...),Ottawa Citizen 1892-12-09("Two miles of track is now laid from the old St. L...),Mercury 1892-12-30(Renfrew Mercury, quoting the (Arnprior) Chronicle,...) |
| 1892-12-21 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | Ottawa people showed appreciative interest in the building of the Parry Sound Colonization Railway (owned by Mr. J.R. Booth, the terminal end of the Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway): a meeting held on December 21, 1892 found citizens strongly in favour of giving Booth a bonus. Some twenty-five miles of the road had been completed west of Emsdale, where it crossed the North Bar branch of the Grand Trunk, and were in running order. A large number of men were in the woods cutting the next season's log supply for Georgian Bay mills (one firm alone with 400 men in camp); lumber from these logs was then shipped mainly by barge to the United States via Georgian Bay, Lake Erie and Tonawanda, but was expected to switch to the all-rail route via Ottawa and Albany once the Parry Sound road was completed. Four or five small villages had sprung up along the line, with several small sawmills under construction, and large quantities of bark, ties, pulpwood, cordwood and hardwood logs were being hauled for shipment. | Canada Lumberman 1893-01-01(Reporting a meeting held "on 21st inst.", i.e. Dec...) |
| 1892-12-30 | Rideau Junction | A sad accident occurred at Shepherd & Morse's lumber yard, Ottawa, on December 30, 1892: Thomas Hurdman, aged 21, son of Mr. George Hurdman, was instantly killed, and William Ascher, aged 16, was severely injured, when the shunting engine, through some mistake, struck a train of loaded box cars heavily while the two young men were checking lumber in a box car for shipment to the United States, throwing the piled lumber on them. | Canada Lumberman 1893-01-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1892-7 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | 20 miles of track from Scotia Jcn to Bear lake in operation. Booth tours line in July. Rumours that CPR was buying PSCRy. | Bell pp.45-52 |
| 1893 | Canoe Lake | Park headquarters established on Potter Creek. | Shaw p6 |
| 1893 | Maxville | Recalled in 1939: early one spring morning in 1893, freight train No. 15 of the Canada Atlantic, with 35 cars and Harry Brown as engineer, was about two miles west of Maxville when a woman was seen "frantically shaking her skirt" on the track. The train stopped "only a few feet from a great gaping hole in the roadbed", where the dam of a lake on the hill above the track had broken and washed the roadbed away. The company presented the woman, who lived near Maxville and whose name was forgotten, with a life pass on all Canada Atlantic passenger trains. | Ottawa Citizen 1939-10-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-01 | Maria Street Bridge | Recalled in 1931: in a January 1893 snowstorm the Canada Atlantic passenger train for Rouse's Point, leaving "the old stone station (now Central Station)" behind two engines, had "at the Laurier avenue bridge a mishap": "A casting on the front engine broke and she had to be taken off. This damaged engine was the best on the road. It was the 'Schenectady,' an engine which had been secured from the New York Central." Superintendent Morley Donaldson ordered the train on with one engine, Phil Roy at the throttle. | Ottawa Citizen 1931-01-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-01 | Greenfield | Recalled in 1931: in a January 1893 blizzard the Canada Atlantic passenger train for Rouse's Point, with Phil Roy at the throttle of its one remaining engine, "struck its first real difficulty" at "Douglas Cut, between Greenfield and Alexandria", where the cut was full of drift and the train went through. "However, half a mile farther on came Buffalo cut, a deeper cut", and there Conductor Tom Lamplough stopped the train when it was found "the whole train was off the track and had been running on the ties since the time it left the last cut. The rails had spread." The baggageman was sent back toward Alexandria, "4 miles away", and the brakeman toward Greenfield, to flag; the crew used iron "dogs" to get the coaches and engine back on the rails by next morning. Short of water, Roy ran the engine into the drift at Buffalo Cut so that section men could shovel snow into the hot engine to melt. A snowplow that left Ottawa the same afternoon left the track at Maxville. | Ottawa Citizen 1931-01-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-01-02 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | On behalf of the Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway, as well as for himself, Mr. J.R. Booth wrote to return sincere thanks for the "right royal support" accorded to the railway bylaw the previous day. | Ottawa Journal 1893-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-01-13 | Middle Subdivision | About twenty miles of track were laid westward on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway (most of the ties being taken from along the Central Counties branch of the C.A.R.), with track reaching March Corners, 15 miles out, by mid-January. Station sites between Ottawa and Arnprior were selected: March Corners, Carp, Kinburn, Galetta and Arnprior, with several flag stations also planned between Ottawa and March Corners; the stations were to be neat frame buildings similar to those on the C.A.R., with work to begin in spring. Mr. Booth said he could have trains running to Arnprior in 20 days but for the Mississippi bridge at Galetta (280 feet, riveted lattice, two 140-foot spans, one then going up); the first train was expected to run from Ottawa to Arnprior by February 12. Two hundred men were then employed on the road. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-01-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-01-17(Ironwork for the Galetta bridge arrived and was ta...),Ottawa Journal 1893-01-13(Also in the Renfrew Mercury of 20 January and Shaw...) |
| 1893-01-18 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company's action to restrain the Atlantic and Northwestern Railway (under C.P.R. control) from building on a portion of its surveyed route came to trial before Mr. Justice Falconbridge. The O.A. & P.S. sought an injunction, arguing the A. & N.W.'s charter (Bay of Fundy to Lake Huron via French River) gave it no right to the disputed passes in Haggarty and Jones townships, Renfrew County, and that its own survey through those passes predated the A. & N.W.'s. Chief engineer Mountain gave lengthy technical evidence on the O.A. & P.S. survey, which had run continuously from Renfrew to Emsdale (with an 1890 exploration survey the first made through the county); engineer Holgate and C.P.R.'s Mr. Drinkwater also testified over the following days. The defence argued the matter belonged before the Railway Committee of the Privy Council rather than the courts. An attempt at an out-of-court settlement, suggested by the judge, had not succeeded as of January 20. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-01-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-01-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-01-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-02-01 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The relatives of Thomas F. Hurdman, who had been killed in a lumber car a few weeks earlier, were to enter suit for damages against the Canada Atlantic Railway Company in the sum of $10,000. | Canada Lumberman 1893-02-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-02-06 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The Canada Atlantic Railway ran its first train over the new short route from Ottawa to New York through the Adirondack Mountains, with quite a number of passengers aboard. A Wagner sleeping car, the "Athenia", which left New York at 7 p.m. Sunday, arrived attached to the 11.20 a.m. train into Elgin Street station the following morning; thereafter the 3.25 p.m. Canada Atlantic express from Ottawa was to carry a through Wagner car for New York via the Adirondacks, arriving at 7.45 a.m., with a dining car picked up at Coteau Junction serving dinner between 6 and 7.15 p.m.; the return car would leave New York at 7 p.m., arriving in Ottawa at 11.20 a.m., with breakfast served from 7.15 to 8.30 a.m. The full bill of fare was fixed at 75 cents. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-02-07("The Canada Atlantic Railway Company ran their fir...),Ottawa Journal 1893-02-07(Fuller description of the new Wagner-car service a...) |
| 1893-02-18 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A rumour circulated that Mr. Van Horne had offered to buy the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway from Mr. Booth; interviewed on the matter, Booth said there was not a word of truth in it. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-02-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-02-22 | Canada Atlantic First Class Coach 37 | The Canada Atlantic railway company intended converting car No. 37 of its rolling stock into a private Pullman car. Separately, the company's employees broke up some forty of the old cars in use when the line was first opened, to reuse their wheels for new freight cars, and a new, beautifully finished official private car, the company's first, built at Cobourg, arrived at the C.A.R. station and was being fitted onto its trucks. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-02-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-04-26(On the new official private car built at Cobourg. ...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-03-29(On the old cars broken up for wheels. Transcribed ...) |
| 1893-02-22≤ | Canada Atlantic First Class Coach 37 | The Canada Atlantic railway company intended converting car No. 37 of their rolling stock into a private Pullman car, which it was said would make a handsome one. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-02-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |