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 locations.
| Date | Subject | Statement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1921-11-15 | Bank Street | The application of the Ottawa Commercial Travelers Association for an order directing the Grand Trunk Railway "to stop two trains from the West, numbers 58 and 52, at the Bank Street yard office to allow passengers to alight, was heard before the railway commission this forenoon. The hearing was practically concluded. The board adjourned the case for one month to allow the Grand Trunk to make a check during that period of the number of passengers who would stop off at the point mentioned." The Grand Trunk opposed it; the Citizen describes the application as one for the Grand Trunk to stop incoming trains on the Parry Sound and Pembroke divisions at the Bank Street yard. | Ottawa Journal 1921-11-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1921-11-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1921-11-25≥ | Hawkesbury | By 25 November 1921 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Since Monday our town has only one mail a day, at 8 p.m. owing to the change of service on the G.T.R. Branch line. This new arrangement is extremely unsatisfactory, and on Tuesday night our Board of Trade met and authorized the president to communicate by phone at once with the Postmaster General and endeavor to obtain relief by having mails come by C.N.R. both from Montreal and Ottawa." | Eastern Ontario Review 1921-11-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1921-12-03≥ | Bank Street | By 3 December 1921 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Board of Railway Commissioners approves level crossing of Grand Trunk and the Driveway, but there must be wigwags on both sides of the tracks." | Ottawa Journal 1921-12-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1921-12-27 | Eganville | Roderick Milroy, a farmer of Sebastopol, "was instantly killed by a G.T.R. freight train at Perrault's crossing about a mile west of Eganville, on December 27." | Eastern Ontario Review 1922-01-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1921-2 | Rockland | Operation discontinued into Rockland Station | CNR Limoges map |
| 1922-01-26≥ | Bank Street | By 26 January 1922 (the issue date), the paper reported: The Board of Railway Commissioners refused the application for the Grand Trunk's through trains to stop at the Bank Street yard office: "There will be no railway station ion Bank street at the G. T. Ry. crossing near the subway." Chief Commissioner Carvell's judgment said the company had taken a census of the traffic for a month (16 November to 15 December) and that "the Central Station, which now accommodates all passenger trains, is centrally located, and I think it would be a great mistake to establish stations elsewhere in the city". Train 58 carried 147 commercial travellers' tickets, 1,044 other paying tickets and 51 passes; train 52 carried 252, 940 and 173. | Ottawa Citizen 1922-01-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1922-04-28 | Vankleek Hill | "The Main street crossing of rthe G.T.R. track is very bad and dangerous for automobile and carriage springs. Perhaps a simple request from our town council to the proper authorities would have the desired effect." | Eastern Ontario Review 1922-04-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1922-05-29≥ | Bank Street | By 29 May 1922 (the issue date), the paper reported: "A broken axle on Grand Trunk train No. 52 occasioned some inconvenience to passengers on the train early Saturday evening, as a result of which they had to transfer to other coaches at the Bank street yards. The break occurred at 6.40 o'clock standard time, Saturday evening, as the train was pulling into the Bank street yards." The train, which makes the run from Depot Harbor to Ottawa, was about 10 minutes late. The Citizen credits the fireman with noticing the broken axle and stopping the G.T.R. express from Pembroke. | Ottawa Journal 1922-05-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1922-05-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1922-07-11≥ | Bank Street | By 11 July 1922 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Investigation this morning showed that the derailment of two Canadian National Railway freight cars near the Bowesville Road crossing at 1.11 last evening was caused by a brake fitting becoming loose and catching in the cattle guards. The cars were replaced on the rails later in the evening and taken to the Ottawa yards." | Ottawa Journal 1922-07-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1922-08-24 | Eganville | A derailed truck of one of the cars of a western freight train "a few miles west of Eganville, is holding up the local G.T.R. passenger train between Pembroke and Ottawa. At two o'clock the train was four hours late in reaching Ottawa and the obstruction had not yet been removed... The derailment is not serious." | Ottawa Journal 1922-08-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1922-09-07≥ | Bank Street | By 7 September 1922 (the issue date), the paper reported: Clement Davis's buggy "was struck by an east-bound G.T.R. freight train at the Parkdale avenue crossing", the train drawn by engine number 1645; he "escaped with a few scratches". The crossing bell was ringing. | Ottawa Citizen 1922-09-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1922-10-06≥ | Coteau Junction | By 6 October 1922 (the issue date), the paper reported: "The value of Grand Trunk first aid training was demonstrated in a striking way at Coteau Junction when a telephone message was received by locomotive Foreman Maw, at the roundhouse, that the little son of J.D. Fletcher, Grand Trunk brake man, had swallowed poison." The foreman and an assistant trained in first aid reached the house on an engine and treated the child, who was recovering. | Eastern Ontario Review 1922-10-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1922-12-18≥ | Kinburn | By 18 December 1922 (the issue date), the paper reported: A Grand Trunk Railway freight train "went off the tracks between Kinburn and Carp, Saturday midnight. Ten cars with grain and the caboose went off the tracks into the ditch and the roadbed was torn up for a considerable distance. A broken wheel was the cause of the derailment." Fireman Robert A. Ellis was painfully burned and Conductor J.M. Drummey and Brakeman H.J. Martin were bruised and cut; "the line was repaired and cleared by 10 o'clock Sunday morning". The train of 33 cars and a caboose was made up at Madawaska and was proceeding east from Depot Harbor with western grain. | Ottawa Journal 1922-12-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1923-06-23≥ | Bank Street | By 23 June 1923 (the issue date), the paper reported: Robert Innis and Richard B. Smith were hurt in a collision between their motor car and "the Depot Harbour-Ottawa train, at the Canadian National Railway crossing at Bayswater avenue, which occurred at 7.30 o'clock last evening." The engine carried the car "about 250 feet along the rails". "The railway crossing at Bayswater avenue is a level crossing, but there is no signal bell to warn of the approach of a train." | Ottawa Citizen 1923-06-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1923-06-25≥ | Bank Street | By 25 June 1923 (the issue date), the paper reported: Robert H. Innes of 931 Wellington street, injured when the Depot Harbor-Ottawa train struck the auto he was in at the Bayswater avenue crossing on Friday evening, "passed away on Saturday night at a local hospital." The coroner opened an inquest on Sunday afternoon and adjourned it until Tuesday evening, July 3. | Ottawa Citizen 1923-06-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1923-07-04≥ | Bank Street | By 4 July 1923 (the issue date), the paper reported: A coroner's jury returned "a verdict of accidental death with a rider to the effect that a hedge obstructing a clear view of the right of way should be clipped" in the death of Robert H. Innes, who died after the auto he was riding in "was struck by a C.N.R. train on June 22nd at the crossing at Bayswater avenue". The jury also advised that a warning bell be installed. The engineer said he was running at about 15 miles per hour and had sounded the whistle. | Ottawa Citizen 1923-07-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1923-09-13 | Bank Street | Joseph Astpect of Westboro "had a narrow escape from death when his buggy and horse were hit by C.N.R. train on the Carling Ave. crossing at an early hour this morning, near Bellevue Park." The buggy was smashed and the horse killed; he was only slightly injured. | Ottawa Citizen 1923-09-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1923-09-14 | Golden Lake | Golden Lake sawmill consumed by fire. | leader |
| 1923-10-30≤ | Bank Street | From 30 October 1923 (the issue date), the paper announced: "At the Board of Railway Commissioners on Tuesday next, there will come up the matter of protection at Bayswater avenue, Ottawa West, where same is crossed by the Canadian National Railway tracks." Mr. H. K. Carruthers of the Ottawa Board of Trade considered that the only satisfactory safeguard would be a wig-wag system. | Ottawa Citizen 1923-10-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1924-01-30≥ | Eastmans | By 30 January 1924 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Passengers from two Montreal-Ottawa trains coming to the city last night had to be transferred to and brought to the city on special trains, on account of the line being blocked by the derailment of cars of a freight train between Vars and Carlsbad Springs." The Journal gives it as a west-bound C.N.R. freight with one car derailed by a broken truck "about three miles east of Carlsbad Springs"; traffic was tied up for an hour and three-quarters. No one was injured. | Ottawa Citizen 1924-01-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1924-01-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1924-03-19 | Bank Street | A Carleton county jury "dismissed the action which had been brought by Mr. Richard B. Smith, owner of the motor car, against the C.N.R., for $5,000 damages", holding that the Canadian National Railway had not been negligent in the accident at the level crossing at Bayswater avenue. Smith had claimed that a hedge on the company's right of way obscured the view. | Ottawa Citizen 1924-03-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1924-06-02≥ | Bank Street | By 2 June 1924 (the issue date), the paper reported: A motor truck was struck "by a west-bound passenger train at the C.N.R. Rochester street crossing on Saturday evening"; Thomas Hill of Westboro "miraculously escaped with scalp wounds and his wife uninjured". The train was the Canadian National Pembroke-Ottawa train; the truck's 300 gallon oil tank was dragged about 75 yards, and the locomotive had reached the trestle over Preston street when the hose was taken off its fender. The C.N.R. office said the whistle was sounded and the crossing's electric bell was ringing. | Ottawa Citizen 1924-06-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1924-08-29 | Caldwell | Station burned. | leader |
| 1925 | Joe Lake | Jameson's lumber mill constructed. | Wright p6 |
| 1925-02-16 | Maxville | The inquest into the death of Louise Audrey Allen, three-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Allen of L'Orignal, "who died from injuries received on November 1, [sic] when the auto in which she and six others were riding crashed into a C.N.R. train at Maxwell's crossing, was finally closed last night after three previous adjournments." The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, "but attributed the cause of the fatal accident to the lack of precaution taken by the child's father, who drove the car." | Ottawa Journal 1925-02-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1925-05-08 | Renfrew | Jamieson Lime Kiln and quarry closes. Lay between Queen and Hart streets. In operation for over 30 years. | leader |
| 1925-07-08≥ | Bank Street | By 8 July 1925 (the issue date), the paper reported: "In a collision with a C.N.R. freight train at the Young street crossing yesterday afternoon two occupants of an auto... narrowly escaped serious injury." The crossing is "close to Preston street"; "There are no gates at the crossing as traffic is not heavy at this point." | Ottawa Citizen 1925-07-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1925-08-03≥ | Eastmans | By 3 August 1925 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Traffic on the Canadian National line from Ottawa to Montreal, by way of Coteau, was paralyzed for some hours Sunday morning when a freight train was derailed near Carlsbad Springs, 13 miles from Ottawa. No one was injured, but it tied up traffic for several hours". The morning trains from Montreal and Ottawa could not pass and passengers were transferred. | Ottawa Journal 1925-08-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1925-09-21≥ | Alexandria | By 21 September 1925 (the issue date), the paper reported: The C.N.R.'s new "Oil Electric Articulated Car" made a run from Montreal to Ottawa on Saturday afternoon "in two hours and 55 minutes, which includes three stops en route, one at Alexandria, where about 150 curious people gathered to give it the once over, and at Coteau where photos were taken." | Ottawa Citizen 1925-09-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1925-11-02≥ | Maxville | By 2 November 1925 (the issue date), the paper reported: A Ford sedan carrying seven people from Cassburn was struck by the C.N.R. Montreal-Ottawa train at the crossing just east of Maxville station; the car caught fire and its occupants were taken on the train to Ottawa. The Journal says the crossing on Main Street "is protected by an electric bell which was ringing", the train was No. 47 and its speed 15 miles per hour, and that the train "was slowing for the station about 100 yards farther on". | Ottawa Journal 1925-11-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1925-11-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1925-11-03 | Maxville | "One death has resulted from the automobile accident at Maxwell, on Sunday morning, when a Ford sedan in which seven people were riding, was struck by the C.N.R. train from Montreal... Baby Louise Allen, three months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wellington Allen, of Cassburn, Ont., died at the Civic Hospital this morning as the result of injuries she received." | Ottawa Citizen 1925-11-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1925-11-18≥ | Carp | By 18 November 1925 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Quick action on the part of Mr. Ephraim Scharfe, of Carp, probably saved him from serious injury when the automobile in which he was driving was struck by a C.N.R. freight train at a railway crossing at Carp on Tuesday afternoon. The train was backing from a siding to the main line..." | Ottawa Citizen 1925-11-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1926 | Joe Lake | Jameson's lumber mill destroyed by fire. Only the house/office remains. | Wright pvii |
| 1926-09-01≥ | Rock Lake | By 1 September 1926 (the issue date), the paper reported: "When the coal tender jumped the tracks a short distance east of Rock Lake, Algonquin Park, yesterday, shortly before noon, the Canadian National passenger train from Scotia to Ottawa was delayed for one hour 20 minutes." The engineer stopped the train; the crew got the tender back on the rails with "frogs" and without a wrecking crew. | Ottawa Journal 1926-09-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1926-11-25 | Bank Street | "Records of the Board of Railway Commission are being searched today on behalf of the City Engineer's Department to learn if permission has been granted the Canadian National Railways to extend their track facing on Isabella Street... The existing railway siding on Isabella street was laid years ago and apparently without any opposition from the city. The company now proposes to extend it from O'Connor street to Bank, a distance of about 400 feet, crossing no street intersections". | Ottawa Journal 1926-11-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1926-12-11≥ | Sainte Justine | By 11 December 1926 (the issue date), the paper reported: "The C. N. R. passenger train from Montreal scheduled to arrive in the Capital at 1.12 o'clock this morning, was upwards of two hours late due to the derailment of an extra freight some distance north of Coteau. The trucks of one of the freight cars left the tracks shortly after midnight near St. Justine." | Ottawa Journal 1926-12-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1927 | South Indian | Western leg of wye to Rockland branch taken up | CNR Limoges map |
| 1927-02-07 | Arnprior | "Arnprior Feb. 7 The Canadian National Pembroke local No. 88, due in Ottawa at 11.35 a.m. was derailed here this morning". No one was injured and the engineer made a quick stop. | Ottawa Citizen 1927-02-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1927-02-07≥ | Carp | By 7 February 1927 (the issue date), the paper reported: Mrs. Margaret Hanlon Morrison, aged 67, wife of the Carp station agent, "was instantly killed on Saturday afternoon" when a C.N.R. train struck her as she walked on the track near the station, unable to get clear because of high snow. The Journal gives the time as two o'clock and the train as a through extra from Ottawa, not required to stop at Carp; the Citizen gives about 3.10 p.m. and "a light engine and van travelling from Ottawa to Madawaska", and says the electric bell at the highway crossing was ringing. | Ottawa Journal 1927-02-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1927-02-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Morrisburg Leader 1927-02-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1927-02-08≥ | Carp | By 8 February 1927 (the issue date), the paper reported: "A verdict of accidental death was returned by the coroner's jury which last night at Carp investigated the death of Mrs. F.H. Morrison, aged 67, wife of the C.N.R. station agent at Carp... The jury exonerated the train crew of all responsibility in connection with the accident." | Ottawa Journal 1927-02-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1927-03-04 | Vars | "The C.N.R. line between Ottawa and Montreal was blocked at Vars this morning, owing to the derailment of a freight train, and the Transcontinental was routed via Hawkesbury to Montreal, after being held in Ottawa for some time." At about 6 a.m. one car of an east-bound freight jumped the tracks and several others were derailed. | Ottawa Journal 1927-03-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1927-04-23 | South Indian | "City fathers and members of the Ottawa delegation who left for Montreal to visit the filtration plant there were compelled to switch from the C.N.R. to the C.P.R., owing to a tie-up on the C.N.R. line when two freight cars left the rails just west of South Indian. The accident occurred this morning at 7.35, when a freight train of 45 cars from Montreal was just pulling out of South Indian... two cars went off the track when an axle broke." | Ottawa Journal 1927-04-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1927-08-01 | Vars | The Montreal-bound C.N.R. passenger train No. 2, which left Ottawa at 5:25, "sideswiped a freight train" at Vars station at about 6 a.m.: the freight, bound for Ottawa, was pulling into the siding with six cars still on the main line, and in heavy fog the passenger engine hit a gondola coal car, climbed it and was derailed. Engineer P. Lalonde and fireman W. Little jumped and were slightly hurt; passengers were not injured; trains were re-routed via Rockland and the line was cleared that afternoon. | Ottawa Journal 1927-08-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1927-08-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1927-08-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1927-08-10 | Chadiere Junction | Six children, "not one of them over twelve years of age, gave those who saw them a few anxious moments, and themselves a bad fright, when they scrambled down a C.N.R. embankment a few seconds ahead of a fast westbound passenger train about 8.45 o'clock" this morning. They had been walking the tracks near the Holland avenue bridge and ran across it when "the long drawn out whistle of the locomotive sounding for the Bayswater avenue crossing was heard". The paper noted that notices warned trespassers would be prosecuted but many walk the tracks, especially in berry-picking time. | Ottawa Citizen 1927-08-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1927-08-27≥ | Vars | By 27 August 1927 (the issue date), the paper reported: Helen Leroux, aged 20, "ran in front of a Montreal-Ottawa freight train near Vars station yesterday afternoon" and was gravely injured: a compound fracture of the right leg, a fractured left arm and a deep forehead wound. She was brought on the train to the Bank street yards and taken by ambulance to hospital. | Ottawa Citizen 1927-08-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1927-09-08≥ | Bank Street | By 8 September 1927 (the issue date), the paper reported: J. A. Bowser "had a narrow escape late yesterday afternoon when he attempted to drive his motor car across the main line level crossing of the C.N.R. on Carling avenue"; the rear of his car was caught by the engine of a freight train. | Ottawa Citizen 1927-09-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1928 | Depot Harbor | Roundhouse closed and engine servicing moved to Parry Sound. | Newby 2005-04-26 |
| 1928-01-12≥ | Vankleek Hill | By 12 January 1928 (the issue date), the paper reported: The body of an unidentified woman was found "hit by a train on the Canadian National Railway tracks yesterday evening... about a mile and a half south of the town, near where the Dalkeith road crosses the tracks". The engineer "saw what seemed like a branch across the track" and stopped, but the locomotive and some cars had passed over the body. The coroner held an inquest in Hawkesbury on 30 January. | Ottawa Citizen 1928-01-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1928-01-31≥ | South Indian | By 31 January 1928 (the issue date), the paper reported: The special C.N.R. train carrying President W. T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State from Montreal to Ottawa was wrecked "at a point just east of Limoges, formerly South Indian station, at 12.05 noon" the day before, travelling at 55 miles an hour; pilot engineer A. Boyd of Montreal was killed and nine others injured. C.N.R. officials established that two horses drawing a log sleigh had run away from the Limoges loading siding and a runner of the sleigh had forced open the switch point at the east end of the yard; the train went through the switch to the passing track and derailed. The locomotive crashed into boxcars on the siding and demolished a granary, killing three teams of horses. | Reading Eagle 1928-01-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1928-01-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1928-02-07 | Bank Street | "Mr. Romeo J. St. Denis, 425 Clarence street... was critically injured about eleven thirty o'clock this morning when a combined truck and roadster Chevrolet car which he was driving was struck by the incoming C.N.Ry Pembroke train at the Parkdale avenue level crossing." The car was carried several hundred feet along the track; the engineer said the wigwag signal was operating and the bell sounding. | Ottawa Citizen 1928-02-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1928-02-24 | Arnprior | "While proceeding eastward about three miles west of Arnprior five cars of a Canadian National Railway way freight left the rails about five o'clock this afternoon and tied up traffic for some time." Passengers on the Ottawa-Pembroke Local, train No. 87, were delayed about an hour and transferred at the scene to an improvised train. The cause was thought to be a broken arch bar. | Ottawa Citizen 1928-02-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1928-06-23≥ | Carp | By 23 June 1928 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Jumping from the C.N.R. Ottawa-Pembroke passenger train before it had come to a stop at Carp station yesterday afternoon, George Martin, relieving section foreman for the C.N.R., fell and suffered a fracture of the right leg above the knee." | Ottawa Citizen 1928-06-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1928-12-07 | Renfrew | A coroner's jury returned a verdict that Mrs. Louis Blaskovich of Barry's Bay "had come to her death through mischance and through no fault of railway employee" at "the Elisabeth street crossing of the C N. R. in Renfrew on Dec. 5th". She "was struck by a shunting freight train and killed instantly without anyone witnessing the accident." | Ottawa Journal 1928-12-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1928-12-24≥ | Arnprior | By 24 December 1928 (the issue date), the paper reported: Martin Adam Wagenblass, aged 12, "was instantly killed here on Saturday afternoon" when, delivering groceries by horse and sleigh, he was "struck by the local train as it was nearing the station" at the Hugh Street crossing of the C.N.R.; he was thrown from the sleigh in front of the engine. | Ottawa Journal 1928-12-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1929-06-28≥ | Maxville | By 28 June 1929 (the issue date), the paper reported: A man who had been at "the Bennett rally at Alexandria" and was bound for Maxville was still asleep on the C.N.R. Montreal-Ottawa train as it left Maxville station; Conductor P. T. McGovern "pulled the emergency cord, and the train glided to a standstill" so that he could be put off. "Well, that's what I call service. We have actually saved him a long walk, for his farmhouse is just across the fields there." | Ottawa Citizen 1929-06-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1929-07-30≥ | Glasgow | By 30 July 1929 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Traffic on the C.N.R. line between Ottawa and Golden Lake was delayed by the derailment of several cars of a freight train about two miles east of Glasgow station, west of Arnprior, shortly after noon yesterday." The C.N.R. attributed it to a damaged truck; the afternoon passenger train to Ottawa reached the city about an hour late. | Ottawa Citizen 1929-07-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1930-09-02≥ | Bank Street | By 2 September 1930 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Jumping from their auto when it stalled on the C.N.R. crossing on Parkdale avenue, in front of an oncoming train, on Saturday evening, two Ottawans Wilfred Murray... and Miss Agnes Erwin... both escaped injury. The car, which was struck by the caboose of the train, which was backing up, was thrown clear of the rail and badly damaged." | Ottawa Citizen 1930-09-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1930-09-25 | Carp | John James Wilson, "one of the most prominent farmers in the Carp district, was instantly killed this morning at 8:30 o'clock when the auto in which he was riding alone was struck by the Canadian National Railway Ottawa-Scotia passenger train at a level crossing on the line between Fitzroy and Huntley townships." Two witnesses from Kinburn said they heard the train and its bell. The Carp Review places the crossing "near the cheese factory on the town line between Huntley and Fitzroy". | Ottawa Citizen 1930-09-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Carp Review 1930-10-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1930-12-12 | Eganville | CNR constructed a siding about a mile south-east of town at Spring Creek crossing (Eganville-Perrault road) for pulpwood etc. | leader |
| 1931-04-24 | Bank Street | Two Bell Telephone employees "had a miraculous escape from serious injury or death at about 8 o'clock this morning when the truck in which they were driving to repair trouble on the Bell Telephone lines on Carling avenue collided with the C.N.R. Ottawa-Scotia train at the level crossing on Carling avenue, just beyond the city limits." | Ottawa Citizen 1931-04-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1931-05-08≥ | Casselman | By 8 May 1931 (the issue date), the paper reported: Mrs. Fabian Gratton, 47, of Casselman, "was struck and instantly killed by a Canadian National Railways Ottawa-Montreal passenger train" while crossing the railway bridge over the South Nation River, "early last evening"; she was "hurled 50 feet into the water below". Her sister-in-law Mrs. Andre Charbonneau and her eight-year-old son escaped by lying beside the track. The engineer was H. H. Legate and the conductor George Keeler; the coroner decided that an inquest was not necessary. | Ottawa Journal 1931-05-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1932-01-07 | Bank Street | William McDermott, 39, "commenced walking alongside the Canadian National Railway tracks near the Bronson avenue crossing" about 10 o'clock this morning, "unmindful of the approaching engine and freight cars", slipped and fell in the path of the freight train; "grabbed hold of the couplers at the rear of the freight car" and was carried about 100 feet, unhurt. The train was going about five miles an hour. | Ottawa Citizen 1932-01-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1932-03-14≥ | Arnprior | By 14 March 1932 (the issue date), the paper reported: William White, 56, of Smiths Falls, "a C.N.R. trainman, was seriously injured here yesterday when he fell from the top of a box car and under the wheels of a moving train. His left hand was so badly crushed that it had to be amputated and it was also found that his skull was fractured." He "was on top of one of the cars while shunting was being done in the local yard." | Ottawa Citizen 1932-03-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1932-05-02 | Alexandria | "When he fell off a Canadian National freight train and under the wheels here late tonight, Alex A. Cameron of Stellarton, N.S., suffered amputation of both his legs above the knees and died before medical aid reached him. The freight had stopped here for water, and it was while testing the wheels of the cars that the conductor found the man beside the track." | Ottawa Citizen 1932-05-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1932-05-09≥ | Arnprior | By 9 May 1932 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Another level crossing accident occurred here Saturday evening at the C.N.R. crossing on Highway 17, about a mile east of town": the evening local, due in Arnprior at 5.58 p.m., "crashed into" a team and wagon; both horses were killed and dragged about 700 feet, and three people were injured. The train, "an oil-electric express, according to some members of the train crew, narrowly escaped being de-railed". | Ottawa Journal 1932-05-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1932-10-28 | Joe Lake | Up in Joe Lake, Algonquin Park, Billy the deer looks forward to train time, becaise that means people at the station with candy bars or peanuts, which are good., Billy first wandered down to the station two years ago, and now he returns every time he hears a train whistle, much to the delight of the kiddies. This year, Billy, who is now eight years old, returned from the woods with two companions, Maude and Teddy, who apparently have been reading safety first literature, for while Billy wanders right on to the railway tracks, Maude and Teddy remain at the edge of the woods wondering what all the fuss is about. | leader |
| 1932-11-17≥ | Kinburn | By 17 November 1932 (the issue date), the paper reported: "A herd of cattle belonging to J. Scissons, near Kinburn, Ont., seeking shelter from a snow storm, wandered through a gate on the Canadian National tracks and there huddled together. A train rushing west crashed into the herd and killed 23 of them. Railway men do not recall so great a number of cattle killed in one crash heretofore." | Winchester Press 1932-11-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1933-03-21≥ | Casselman | By 21 March 1933 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Hundreds of passengers Ottawa-bound from Montreal were delayed several hours en route last night when the engine of the No. 1 Canadian National Railways express due here at 9.20 o'clock broke down near Castleman, Ont." A special train sent out from Ottawa at 10.45 brought the passengers in at 12.55; the stalled train reached Ottawa about three o'clock. | Ottawa Journal 1933-03-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1933-08-21 | Arnprior | C. Pendler, aged 27, a merchant of Amos, Que., "died here this morning as result of injuries when he drove his car into the side of an eastbound C.N.R. local" on Highway No. 17 near Arnprior, with two women companions, one badly cut and bruised. | Ottawa Citizen 1933-08-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1933-10-07≥ | Bank Street | By 7 October 1933 (the issue date), the paper reported: Betty Eleanor Milks, aged two, "clambered to the top of the Canadian National Railway's embankment at the rear of her home at 32 Edgar street, where she was struck and killed by the Pembroke-bound passenger train of the C.N.R. which left the Union Station in Ottawa at 3.45 o'clock on Saturday afternoon." | Ottawa Citizen 1933-10-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1933-10-12≥ | Bank Street | By 12 October 1933 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Death was accidental and no blame attached to the Canadian National Railways or the engineer of the C.N.R. Ottawa-Pembroke train, was the verdict at the inquest last evening at the police station into the death of Betty Eleanor Milks, three-year old daughter of George E. Milks, 32 Edgar street." She was killed "just back of her home near the Fairmont avenue crossing". Coroner J. E. Craig presided; the engineer was W. G. Cooper. | Ottawa Citizen 1933-10-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1933-10-27 | Arnprior | Benjamin S. Bolton of Ottawa "is alive and uninjured, but his light coach is almost a wreck as a result of Mr. Bolton driving his car into the side of a C.N.R. train at a level crossing about a half mile east of Arnprior late this afternoon", about 4.50, as the westbound local approached Arnprior. The air line broke and the train was held up for two hours. "This is the third serious accident at this crossing during the past eighteen months"; it has no signal or wig-wag. | Ottawa Citizen 1933-10-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1933-12-17 | Maxville | "Her view hindered by an umbrella she carried to protect herself from a pelting rain, Mrs. Ross, wife of J. Archie Ross, local baker, stepped into the path of a Montreal-Ottawa C.N.R. freight train and was instantly killed tonight", about 7.30 p.m., on her way to church. Coroner J. H. Munro was to hold an inquest. | Ottawa Citizen 1933-12-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1934-01-02≥ | Carp | By 2 January 1934 (the issue date), the paper reported: "The morning train from Ottawa to Pembroke ran into trouble here yesterday morning about 8.45 as it was leaving the station, when the engine ran off the track. The icy condition of the tracks was undoubtedly the cause and the fact that the train had not gained very much speed certainly prevented a bad wreck. One of the rails was broken into three pieces but the engine remained upright." | Ottawa Citizen 1934-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1934-01-02≥ | Galetta | By 2 January 1934 (the issue date), the paper reported: After a sleet and rain storm that began "early Sunday evening", on the C.N.R. Ottawa-Madawaska line "train service was completely blocked for the entire day", the section between Carp and Arnprior being the most seriously affected. The train due at Galetta at 9 a.m. did not reach it until 12.30 p.m.; "the wheels dropped from the rails near the switch just west of Galetta station a small section of the track was broken", and over fifty section men were set to work with picks breaking the ice between Galetta and Arnprior. Veteran railwaymen said they had never seen such conditions. | Ottawa Citizen 1934-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1934-01-02≥ | Kinburn | By 2 January 1934 (the issue date), the paper reported: After a delay of nearly 12 hours, the passengers on the train that left Ottawa at 7.55 a.m. "were transferred by taxi last evening from Kinburn to Arnprior, where they were placed on board the eastbound train which had been stopped there, and the passengers on this train were transported by auto to Kinburn, where they were taken aboard the train from Ottawa." Meals were supplied in restaurants at Kinburn and Arnprior. | Ottawa Citizen 1934-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1934-01-02≥ | Caldwell | By 2 January 1934 (the issue date), the paper reported: "At Caldwell, also on the Ottawa-Madawaska line near Eganville, a snowplow was derailed but this obstruction was cleared early." | Ottawa Citizen 1934-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1934-01-02≥ | Bank Street | By 2 January 1934 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Additional section men were called out soon after the commencement of the storm on Sunday evening to keep the Bank street yard open for trains. The section men experienced great difficulty in operating the switches and walking was risky for the men as the sleet soon made a glare sheet of ice in the yards. Several of the sidings were rendered impassable and all day yesterday men worked with pick and shovels clearing these tracks." | Ottawa Citizen 1934-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1934-01-23≥ | Madawaska | By 23 January 1934 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Motor trouble on the C.N.R. Madawaska-Pembroke-Ottawa train this morning as it was leaving the sheds at Madawaska caused it to be more than two hours late on arrival at Ottawa. Due at 10.55 a.m., it did not reach here until nearly two o'clock. Some difficulty was experienced in getting the engine off the turn-table at Madawaska with the result that a steam engine had to be commissioned to convey the passengers here." | Ottawa Journal 1934-01-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1934-08-18≤ | Bank Street | From 18 August 1934 (the issue date), the paper announced: "Late this evening a long train of double length railroad cars will pull into the Canadian National yards and the unloading of the eighty seven wagons carrying the show equipment will start immediately." The World of Mirth Shows were to provide the midway at the Ottawa Exhibition opening on Monday morning. | Ottawa Citizen 1934-08-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1934-11-05≥ | Bank Street | By 5 November 1934 (the issue date), the paper reported: George Jiasson, 40, of Toronto, "attempted to board a freight train while it was crossing the Bank street subway about eight o'clock Saturday night" and "fell between a box car and the side of the bridge, suffering a cut to the side of his head and a fracture of the left rib." | Ottawa Citizen 1934-11-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1935 | Kinburn | Station burned | Aubrey photo 5645 |
| 1935-05-08≥ | Carp | By 8 May 1935 (the issue date), the paper reported: Robert Armstrong, aged 19, of Huntley, "received minor injuries" when the automobile he was driving "crashed into the side of a freight train at a crossing at the west end of the village of Carp at 1.30 p.m. yesterday". His auto struck the C.N.R. east-bound freight just after it had passed over the highway crossing, colliding with the first car behind the engine. | Ottawa Citizen 1935-05-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1935-07-05 | Bank Street | Three special trains of the Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus reached Ottawa several hours late, too late for the street parade. "The train arrived at the Bank street yard of the C.N.R. at 10.14 and within half an hour it had been broken into sections and was placed on the sidings at Plouffe Park. The train came from Brockville via Coteau Junction." The circus said the trains had been routed "on a round about way" because of the many low bridges on the main line between Ottawa and Brockville, and a hot box delayed the train at Cornwall. | Ottawa Citizen 1935-07-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1935-07-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1935-07-13 | Coteau Junction | "Quebec provincial police took nine men off an Ottawa-bound freight train here early today in the belief they were connected with the hunger march of Montreal unemployed to Ottawa... Officers lodged them in cells here and resumed their guard over the railway yards." | Ottawa Citizen 1935-07-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1935-08-09≥ | Bank Street | By 9 August 1935 (the issue date), the paper reported: In reply to a protest that shunting and the stopping of cattle cars "in the Isabella street yard of the C.N. Rly. were creating a nuisance in the district", I. C. Rand, K.C., counsel for the railway, wrote that two hours was the limit for keeping cattle on the sidings and that "while switching could not be done without noise it had to be done". Mayor Nolan said one cause of the noise was "flying shunting". | Ottawa Citizen 1935-08-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-01-18≥ | Chadiere Junction | By 18 January 1936 (the issue date), the paper reported: Two west end youths "had a narrow escape from serious injury or death early last evening when four box cars passed completely over one youth and a second was forced to jump to safety as a C.N.R. freight train, backing along the trestle over Holland avenue, overtook them as they were skiing along the right of way." | Ottawa Citizen 1936-01-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-05-19 | Bank Street | "Mayor Lewis has received complaints as to the prevalence of shunting of trains in the Bank street railway yards during the night. The C.N. Rly. some time ago agreed to reduce the night shunting to an absolute minimum but residents in the district say the nuisance is now more common. An appeal will likely be made to the minister of railways." | Ottawa Citizen 1936-05-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-08-01≥ | Alexandria | By 1 August 1936 (the issue date), the paper reported: Allan Snider, 78, of Alexandria, returning from a fishing trip, "was struck and killed by the nine o'clock Canadian National Railways Ottawa-Montreal express about a mile and a half east of this place." The engineer reported at Glen Robertson that he thought his locomotive had struck something on a curve east of Alexandria; sectionmen found the body. Snider was stone deaf. | Ottawa Citizen 1936-08-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-09-08 | Carp | "Claude Armstrong, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Armstrong, of Carp, narrowly escaped death this morning when the car he was driving was hit by a freight train travelling west from the village." "About a year ago, Robert Armstrong, brother of Claude Armstrong, was struck at the same crossing while driving in the opposite direction." | Ottawa Citizen 1936-09-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-09-14≥ | Arnprior | By 14 September 1936 (the issue date), the paper reported: Frank Nighbor of Pembroke, the hockey player, "had a narrow escape from serious injury here when his car was struck by a freight train at the Daniel street crossing of the CNR., at about 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon." The crossing "has an electric wig-wag signal but it operated from the main line only and does not wag or light up when trains are working on the siding." | Ottawa Citizen 1936-09-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-09-19≥ | Elgin Street | By 19 September 1936 (the issue date), the paper reported: Roland Duchesneau, 28, of Cacouna, Que., "climbed aboard the side of a box-car of a moving westbound mixed freight train in the yards of the Canadian National Railways near Elgin street at 7 o'clock last evening" and "was caught by the switch standard just west of the bridge over Elgin street subway and pulled from the train"; his right foot was amputated at the ankle. The train "had to stop before it crossed the bridge over the canal a little east of the Elgin street bridge"; the conductor was G. H. Everest. | Ottawa Citizen 1936-09-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1936-09-28≥ | Moose Creek | By 28 September 1936 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Ferginald Deroucher of Sandringham suffered a broken hip when the car in which he was a passenger was struck by a freight train yesterday afternoon. The three other passengers in the car escaped with a shaking up despite the fact that the car was completely demolished." He was rushed to hospital at Cornwall. | Ottawa Citizen 1936-09-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1937-01-02≥ | Chadiere Junction | By 2 January 1937 (the issue date), the paper reported: Jean Hyde, 13, "was fatally injured when struck by the west bound C.N.R. Ottawa-Pembroke local, just west of Holland avenue subway, at 4.30 p.m. Friday" (New Year's Day). The train had left Union Station at 4.20 p.m.; the engineer sounded the whistle and applied the emergency brakes, stopping 180 feet beyond the spot. She had been walking west on the track with her ten-year-old brother, who jumped aside. She died on the way to the Civic Hospital. | Ottawa Journal 1937-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1937-01-08≥ | Chadiere Junction | By 8 January 1937 (the issue date), the paper reported: A coroner's jury found that the death of Jean Hyde, 13, killed by a C.N.R. train near the Holland avenue subway on New Year's Day, "was accidental and there was no negligence on anyone's part", and recommended "that parents constantly caution their children not to walk on railway tracks". The engineer and fireman said the bell had been ringing steadily and the whistle sounded; witnesses said they did not hear it. The verdict was given Thursday evening. | Ottawa Journal 1937-01-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1937-01-20 | Greenfield | Mrs. Duncan John Roy MacDonald, aged about 60, "was instantly killed at 10.45 o'clock this morning" when a C.N.R. passenger train struck her as she walked on the railway tracks near her home, "about one and a half miles east of Greenfield station". According to the train crew, "her back turned to the westbound train", the accident happened on a curve. | Ottawa Citizen 1937-01-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1937-02-20 | Graham Bay | A truck owned by Motorways Limited "crashed into the side of a special Canadian National Railways freight train headed for Barry's Bay at the Richmond road crossing at Graham Bay, about eight miles from Ottawa, early this morning"; Harry Purcell and Morris Ferguson were taken to the Civic Hospital. The train left the yards at 1.30 and reached the crossing at 2.10, in heavy fog; "The crossing has no signals as it is considered to be an open view crossing." The truck hit the fifth car from the rear and three cars were damaged. | Ottawa Citizen 1937-02-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1937-06-03≥ | Maxville | By 3 June 1937 (the issue date), the paper reported: The C.N.R. Montreal-Vancouver express, westbound, "crashed into the rear cars of a freight train near here last night", about a mile west of Maxville, as the eastbound freight No. 402 was moving into the long siding; the express "crashed into the last two cars". William Roach, master mechanic of Ottawa, who was riding in the locomotive cab, jumped and suffered a fractured right wrist; none of the passenger train left the rails. The Citizen says it happened about 10.30 daylight saving time, the Journal at 9.35 standard time; the wrecking train was sent out from the Bank street yards. | Ottawa Citizen 1937-06-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1937-06-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1937-06-26≥ | Chadiere Junction | By 26 June 1937 (the issue date), the paper reported: Five little children "had climbed up on the C.N.R. bridge which crosses Preston Street and were watching the street cars pass underneath when they saw the Deisel engine train from Madawaska approaching and getting frightened tried to squeeze themselves against the railing." Engineer William M. Cooper applied his emergency brakes; one child was caught between the pilot and the bridge rail, and none was hurt. | Ottawa Citizen 1937-06-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1937-09-07≥ | Moose Creek | By 7 September 1937 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Five freight cars were derailed and piled up, blocking the right-of-way, but no one was hurt, in an accident on the Canadian National Railways line near Moose Creek at 1.30 o'clock, Standard Time, on Monday morning." The line was blocked until nearly noon; an extra westbound freight from Montreal lost a truck on a coal car, and local passengers were transferred around the derailment. | Ottawa Journal 1937-09-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |