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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1893-09-20 | Unidentified Passenger Cars | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway's passenger equipment on beginning regular service consisted of two first-class and two second-class coaches and a couple of combination cars, each 54 feet long, built by the Crossen Car Manufacturing Co. of Cobourg. The first-class coaches were beautifully finished in mahogany with comfortable high-backed seats like those in the C.A.R. passenger coaches, and had at the end of each a commodious state smoking department with leather-covered seats, reached by a side passage; the second-class and combination coaches were similar to those used on other roads. It was contemplated to build passenger coaches (and box cars) at Ottawa shortly, a large amount of material for this having been ordered. | Ottawa Journal 1893-09-20(Article headed "$75,000 in rolling stock". Transcr...) |
| 1893-09-20 | Unidentified Freight Cars | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway had one hundred platform cars, all 34 feet long, built by the Crossen Car Manufacturing Co. of Cobourg (Limited). Boxcars were to be supplied in the meantime by the C.A.R., and it was contemplated to build box cars at Ottawa shortly; a large amount of material had been ordered, including four hundred yellow pitch pine car sills from the Southern States and a quantity of Canadian white pine and oak timber (the latter for "treansits" [sic]). | Ottawa Journal 1893-09-20(Article headed "$75,000 in rolling stock". Transcr...) |
| 1893-09-20 | Steam Shovels | Two steam shovels were working on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound line, one at Willis' pit near Arnprior and the other at Carp village. | Ottawa Journal 1893-09-20(Article headed "$75,000 in rolling stock". Transcr...) |
| 1893-09-20 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, which began regular passenger and freight service between Ottawa and Arnprior on Monday, September 18, 1893, had rolling stock valued at $75,000. | Ottawa Journal 1893-09-20(Article headed "$75,000 in rolling stock". Transcr...) |
| 1893-09-22 | Arnprior | The "diamond" crossing for the O.A. & P.S. over the C.P.R. at Arnprior was put in on Sunday, September 17, 1893. Before the O. & P.S. could run cars over it, 1,700 feet of rail had to be laid on the far side so trains could stand clear of the C.P.R. lines; the C.P.R. gave instructions to tear up the O. & P.S. track on its property until that was complete, which its men did while the O. & P.S. men were at dinner, and the O. & P.S. men promptly laid it down again; a rumour of near bloodshed between the workmen was played down as no more than this (the Arnprior News commented that "for all around 'hoggishness' the C.P.R. leads the van"). The crossing was reported completed on October 5, when rails began to be laid west of Arnprior. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-09-20(Diamond crossing put in on Sunday. Transcribed by ...),Almonte Gazette 1893-09-29(Repeating the Mercury, with the Arnprior News comm...),Mercury 1893-09-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-10-05(Diamond crossing now completed. Transcribed by Col...) |
| 1893-09-22 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #710 | Locomotive No. 100, the largest of three new locomotives reported as arriving from the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, reached Ottawa about the third week of September 1893, having come from the St. Albans shops; the Free Press called it "by far the strongest mogul which runs into Ottawa", built to meet the increased international trade between Ottawa and Rouse's Point, which the large business already begun on the O.A. & P.S. was greatly augmenting. Hundreds of people admired it. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-09-22(Nos. 21 and 100 had arrived from the St. Albans sh...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-26("Speedy Engines" article; the locomotives had arri...) |
| 1893-09-22 | Central Vermont #30 | Locomotive No. 30, a Central Vermont engine that had been in use by the Canada Atlantic for several years, now ran the Parry Sound morning train; the engine had been in use all summer on the Hawkesbury branch. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-09-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-09-22 | Hawkesbury Branch | Central Vermont engine No. 30, in use by the C.A.R. for several years, had been used all summer of 1893 on the Hawkesbury branch, and was then put on the morning Parry Sound train. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-09-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-09-25 | Unidentified Passenger Cars | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Co. had lately ordered a dozen first and second class coaches for its regular services; two first class and one second class had already arrived and were running. The first class coaches were "way above the ordinary", fitted with washrooms for both gentlemen and ladies and a capital smoking compartment (a new idea, since first-class passengers had been forced to take a second-class car to smoke), and were upholstered in red plush with high-backed seats; the cars were to be placed on the daily service as they arrived. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-09-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-09-26 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Baldwin locomotives 20 and 21 were delivered with air brakes for the tenders. | Ottawa Journal, 1893-09-26. Thanks to David Jeanes |
| 1893-09-29 | Bank Street | To accommodate the increase in freights on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound railway since its opening, two long sidings, each over five hundred yards long, were constructed just west of Bank street, laid on either side of the main line, a great deal of filling being needed because of the elevation of the track there. On September 15 a long siding was also reported being built east of Bank street in the C.A.R. yard. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-09-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-15(Siding east of Bank street. Transcribed by Colin J...) |
| 1893-09-29≥ | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #710 | The big one-hundred-ton engine of the C.A.R. made her initial trip down to Coteau on Monday, September 25; when starting the return journey on Tuesday the steam pressure forced off the cap of the whistle, all the steam escaped and the fires had to be put out while repairs were made. By September 29 she had also broken down at Bearbrook while hauling a special the previous day, and being so heavy had broken seven rails on her first trip. | Ottawa Journal 1893-09-28(Initial trip to Coteau "Monday", whistle cap blown...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-29("Yesterday, while hauling a special, she broke dow...) |
| 1893-10-03 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #661 | Engine 60 of the Canada Atlantic railway, which had been undergoing repairs for the last two months, would be turned out of the shops the next day, having been thoroughly overhauled throughout. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-10-06 | Kinburn Depot | The O.A. & P.S. station at Kinburn was built in the summer and fall of 1893. On July 14 the company was building a station 40 x 20 feet, with a force of eight men under Mr. Tomlinson of Ottawa (who had the contract for all the stations between Ottawa and Arnprior), and a large number of men were grading and levelling the yard and putting in sidings and switches; by July 28 the station was nearly completed and expected to be "the handsomest building in the village"; by August 3 and again August 18 it was reported nearing completion, then about finished, with grounds located for a freight shed and granary. In mid-September the yard was being gravelled and the roadways to the station and B.W. Dunnett's elevator graded; by October 2 the trains ran with some regularity and a station master was in constant attendance. On August 18 fifteen men worked a Sunday, and twenty-six the Sunday before, lifting a sunken trestle near the station. | Mercury 1893-07-14(Kinburn column. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher i...),Mercury 1893-07-28(Kinburn column. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher i...),Ottawa Journal 1893-08-03(Mr. Mountain on the stations at Kinburn and Galett...),Ottawa Journal 1893-08-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1893-08-18(The sunken trestle. Transcribed by Colin J. Church...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-15(Yard gravelling and roadway grading. Transcribed b...),Almonte Gazette 1893-10-06(Kinburn Notes, October 2. Transcribed by Colin J. ...) |
| 1893-10-07 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The location of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway's station at Renfrew was definitely decided on Doyle street, alongside the lacrosse grounds, with the entrance on Elizabeth street; a special meeting of Renfrew council on Monday, October 2 agreed to close a portion of Doyle street at the company's petition, the site being recommended by Government Engineer Schreiber, and work on the foundation was to begin at once. By October 17 the building had a veranda all around it; work had begun on October 20 (the workmen first mistakenly starting on the rear of Mr. James Reid's lot); a large water tank and an aqueduct to the creek beyond the lacrosse grounds were being built beside it by November 16; the station was to be lighted by electricity, the track running through the fair grounds; and J.R. Booth paid Mr. O'Keefe $1,000 for property and $400 for damages for building the station. | Mercury 1893-10-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-10-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1893-10-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1893-10-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-11-16(Water tank and aqueduct, quoting the Renfrew Journ...),Mercury 1893-11-10(O'Keefe payment. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher ...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-02(Electric lighting of the station, quoting the Renf...) |
| 1893-10-07 | Elgin Street | Improvements at the C.A.R.'s Elgin Street depot in autumn 1893: the new sidings and platforms were about completed by September 14 (the Parry Sound train to start from the new track the following week), the platforms had been repaired and extended toward Bank street and the new sidings for the Parry Sound railway were complete by September 18, and on October 7 the station house was undergoing repairs, with the verandahs painted and the general waiting room kalsomined. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-09-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-09-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-10-09 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Chief engineer Mountain told the Ottawa Citizen that the route of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway had been finally located west of Golden Lake far enough for all of the next season's construction work, and that the stations west of Renfrew as far as the work would be completed that fall were Douglas, Eganville and Golden Lake; the station at Renfrew and one at New Glasgow, between Arnprior and Renfrew, were to be commenced that day. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-10-09 | Golden Lake Depot | Chief engineer Mountain said on October 9, 1893 that Golden Lake would be among the stations, with Douglas and Eganville, that the O.A. & P.S. would complete that fall west of Renfrew, the route having been finally located west of Golden Lake far enough for all of the next season's construction work. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-10-20 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | An electric dynamo was being placed on a special car at the Canada Atlantic railway workshops to furnish electric light to the workmen laying steel on the Parry Sound road above Arnprior, where the work was to be pushed forward night and day until Renfrew was reached; the electric plant was to be ready to start the following week at Willis' pit between Galetta and Arnprior, though on November 3 the dynamo car was still in the Stewarton yards and the electric lights had not yet been started. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-21(The electric plant to start at Willis' pit the nex...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-11-03(The dynamo car still in the Stewarton yards. Trans...) |
| 1893-10-21 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | A regular passenger train on the way from Montreal was credited with making the distance between Eastman's Springs and Ottawa, a distance of twelve miles, in nine minutes. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-10-21 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Construction-train mishaps on the O.A. & P.S. in October 1893: on Saturday, October 14 a construction engine with four cars ran over the dump some miles above Arnprior, the rails covered with blue clay so the drivers would not catch, and went over on her side, smashing the cab, though nobody was hurt (the Watchman's account credits the spongy roadbed giving way under the heavy train, the engineer having stayed aboard to stop the machinery); the engine was brought down to the Elgin Street depot and repaired by October 21; the first locomotive to reach Renfrew slid into a ditch halfway between Arnprior and Renfrew about October 20; and sixteen cattle in two herds were killed by two freight trains at Armstrong's trestle a few days before October 20. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-21(The Arnprior Watchman's account. Transcribed by Co...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-21(Engine repaired at the shops. Transcribed by Colin...),Ottawa Journal 1893-10-23(First locomotive to Renfrew slid into a ditch. Tra...),Almonte Gazette 1893-10-27(Arnprior News, also reporting a work-train engine ...),Almonte Gazette 1893-10-20(Cattle killed at Armstrong's trestle. Transcribed ...) |
| 1893-10-21 | Chaudiere Branch | The Canada Atlantic laid a new siding in rear of Catherine street and began removing lumber from Perley's Chaudiere piling grounds to deposit it in the new yard; it was thought the whole strip along the track between Kent street and Concession might soon be used the same way, and by October 21 a new lumber yard at the south end of Kent street, between the C.A.R. and Catherine street, already extended across the line of the former thoroughfare. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-10-21 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-2 #620 | Locomotive No. 21, one of the two new passenger locomotives, was tested up to 67 miles per hour, making that time seemingly without great exertion and, it was thought, capable of going much faster if required. It had arrived from the St. Albans shops in the week of September 22, described as a heavy and powerful passenger locomotive; Ed Chase was its driver. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-09-22(No. 21 had arrived from the St. Albans shops. Tran...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-26(Ed Chase driver of No. 21; described alike with No...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-21(The 67 mph test. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher ...) |
| 1893-10-21 | Canada Atlantic Second Class Coach 34 | Coach 34 of the Canada Atlantic railway, a fine second class car, was undergoing repairs at the shops. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-10-27 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Track laying on the O.A. & P.S. west of Arnprior progressed quickly through the autumn of 1893: rails began going down on the first ten-mile section on September 21, and by October 9 were laid three miles west of Arnprior with about 800 men on the road and grading expected complete to Golden Lake (84 miles from Ottawa) by November 15; by October 12 track was five miles beyond Arnprior, and an electric dynamo car was fitted at the C.A.R. shops to light night work as laying was pushed at about a mile and a half a day. The first locomotive reached Renfrew on Friday, October 20 (slipping into a ditch on the way), twenty men were reported to have laid 9,200 feet — a mile and three-quarters — of track in a day, and rails reached the agricultural show grounds on Thursday, October 26 (celebrated by a steady tooting of the whistle); a diamond crossing over the Kingston and Pembroke at Renfrew was then laid over four or five days. A passenger service to Renfrew was expected in two or three weeks, with Eganville the likely terminus for the winter. | Ottawa Journal 1893-09-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-10-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-10-20(Dynamo car at the C.A.R. workshops. Transcribed by...),Ottawa Journal 1893-10-23(First locomotive at Renfrew. Transcribed by Colin ...),Mercury 1893-10-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Kingston Daily British Whig 1893-10-24(The 9,200-foot day and the Kingston and Pembroke d...),Mercury 1893-10-27(Rails to the show grounds. Transcribed by Colin J....),Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-26(Mr. Ferguson, M.P., on the prospect of passenger t...) |
| 1893-10-27 | Goshen | A siding was put in on the new railway at the town line crossing on the farm of Mr. Andrew McArthur, so farmers in that part of the country would not need to haul their peas up one of the worst hills between there and Belfast, Ireland. | Mercury 1893-10-27(Datelined Goshen. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher...) |
| 1893-10-27 | A.J.Cambpbell Grain Shed | Mr. A.J. Campbell of Arnprior was about to erect a commodious grain shed and warehouse at McIntosh's crossing on the O.A. & P.S. Railway, a point midway between Arnprior and Renfrew in the township of McNab which, with a railway station, was likely eventually to become a good-sized village. | Mercury 1893-10-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Almonte Gazette 1893-10-27(Arnprior News, giving the name as "Mr. J. Campbell...) |
| 1893-11-03 | John Rudolphus Booth | A biographical sketch of Mr. J.R. Booth in the Ottawa Evening Journal (reprinted in the Renfrew Mercury) described him as a Canadian, not an American as many believed, born "in Sheffock, county of Waterloo, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, sixty-five years ago", who came to Ottawa thirty-eight years earlier, saw the possibilities of the Chaudiere's water power and, with the late Mr. Soper, built a small shingle mill on the site of his present big mill. During the hard times of 1874 to 1879 he bought timber limits at auction "right and left" when other limit holders lost courage, and they were worth five times what he paid; "In 1881 he threw himself into the building of the Canada Atlantic and in a very short time the road was constructed and at once took a first place amongst Canadian railways", and those who knew him best said the Parry Sound Railway would be in complete running order from the Sound inside of three years. | Ottawa Journal 1893-11-03(Also as reprinted in the Renfrew Mercury; the plac...) |
| 1893-11-03 | New Glasgow Depot | Only one station was planned between Arnprior and Renfrew, at New Glasgow (the Journal of August 3 puts it ten miles above Arnprior; the Journal of October 31 has it "equally distant" from both towns). On October 9 chief engineer Mountain said the building of the New Glasgow station would begin that day; by November 3 the Journal and Almonte Gazette were reporting the station "half way between Arnprior and Renfrew". | Ottawa Journal 1893-08-03(Mr. Mountain: one station between Arnprior and Ren...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-10-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Almonte Gazette 1893-11-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-11-04 | Plows | The frame work of a large new snow plow, with flanges on both sides "of the most approved make", was begun in the C.A.R. mechanical shops on August 19, 1893; by November 4 a fine snow plough was being put into shape for work that winter, the box built and awaiting wings and fore lift. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-08-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-11-04(Almost all the work then being done in the C.A.R. ...) |
| 1893-11-04 | Parry Sound Colonization Railway #2 - William Beatty | The old Welsh locomotive Wm. Beatty was entirely rebuilt in the Elgin street shops and was ready to go up the line again to its work at the far end; steam was raised on the morning of November 4 for the first time since its arrival and the engine was worked in the yard. On September 22 it had been taken to pieces for a complete overhauling before being shipped back to its run on the far end of the Parry Sound railway. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-09-22(Locomotive No. 2 of the colonization road taken to...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-11-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-11-04≥ | Ottawa Central Station | A deputation of the Ottawa Board of Trade met the Hon. Mr. Haggart, Minister of Railways and Canals, to urge granting J.R. Booth the right of way along the canal's east bank for a central railway station; the Minister said the government had never promised Booth or anyone an exclusive right to build there, and that he would favour only a union station open to all railways in common. He noted the government had received applications for use of the canal reserve right of way from the Canada Atlantic, the Ottawa Arnprior and Parry Sound, the Atlantic Pacific, the Montreal and Ottawa, the Vaudreuil, and the Pontiac and Pacific Junction railways, but no formal offer yet to build a union scheme; ex-Mayor McDougall explained that Booth's plan was to build as far north as Maria street, put up a temporary station there (at an estimated cost of about $73,000 for a retaining wall along the canal bank), and await the courts' ruling on the Sparks estate's competing claim to part of the canal reserve before proceeding to the canal basin proper. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-11-04(The deputation met the Minister "yesterday afterno...) |
| 1893-11-05 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Two stations for the O.A. & P.S. Ry. went through Arnprior on a flat car on Sunday, November 5, 1893, all ready to be put together. | Almonte Gazette 1893-11-10(Arnprior News: "Sunday last (5/11)". Transcribed b...) |
| 1893-11-08≥ | Chaudiere Branch | By November 8, 1893, a Canada Atlantic train, while shunting on the tracks of Bronson and Weston's lumber yard, had crashed through the buffer at the street end of the track and smashed a candy stand on Bridge street; the trucks of the first car were broken against the buffer. | Ottawa Journal 1893-11-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-11-09≥ | Ottawa Central Station | By November 9, 1893, J.R. Booth, ex-mayor McDougall and engineer Geo. Mountain had spent an afternoon examining the proposed approach to the new central depot, looking at both the canal bank route and an alternate route east of Nicholas Street. Heavy excavation would be needed along the canal, requiring a crib work at the water's edge so cars could haul the spoil away to fill in where the Canada Atlantic and Parry Sound lines would junction; if the government built the crib work over the winter so a temporary track could be laid, Booth would begin the approach work in the spring. The Nicholas Street alternative would tunnel under Theodore Street, independent of the canal reserve, but would require buying considerable private property, including several houses. | Ottawa Journal 1893-11-10("Nearly all the afternoon yesterday..." Transcribe...) |
| 1893-11-10 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | There was a rumour that the K. & P.R. and the O.A. & P.S.R. might amalgamate to the extent of the Kingston and Pembroke's trains running into the new O.A. & P.S. station at Renfrew; a switch had been put in at the diamond on the town line at Kings. Track laying continued through Renfrew, where by noon on Friday the gang was past the station and near the lacrosse grounds, and by Wednesday near the brick church in Admaston, with sidings put in in town and a switch at the K. & P.R. crossing. | Ottawa Journal 1893-11-10(Quoting the Renfrew Mercury; also in the Ottawa Ci...),Mercury 1893-11-10(Track laying through Renfrew. Transcribed by Colin...) |
| 1893-11-10 | Carp Depot | The O.A. & P.S. station at Carp was built in 1893. It was expected on July 28 to stand where Rivington's hill was being removed by the steam shovel; chief engineer Mountain said on August 3 that work on the station, to be built east of the "city limits" (as printed), would soon begin. By September 8 the station house was well under way, with plastering expected the following week and the contractor determined to rush it because of the fair freight business, goods being dumped beside the track meanwhile; by September 15 it was almost completed, and the station was reported completed in early November, when agent F.K. Morrison moved into it from the little shanty he had used as an office. The company was also building houses for section hand-cars along the line, two at Carp the previous week. | Almonte Gazette 1893-07-28(Carp News: the station house expected where the hi...),Ottawa Journal 1893-08-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Almonte Gazette 1893-09-08(Carp News. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Lo...),Almonte Gazette 1893-09-15(Carp News: station almost completed. Transcribed b...),Mercury 1893-11-10(Carp column: station completed; agent F.K. Morriso...) |
| 1893-11-16 | Renfrew Depot | The O.A. & P.S. station at Renfrew: the site was first debated in August 1893 (Mr. Booth said following the C.P.R. would add $30,000, so the station would be on the Smith vacant lot facing Moffatt's factory or the adjoining McEwen block), then reported selected on August 22 one block south-west of Main street; on October 3 it was definitely fixed on Doyle street beside the lacrosse grounds, entrance on Elizabeth street, Renfrew council agreeing on October 2 to close part of Doyle street on the company's petition (the site being recommended by Government Engineer Schreiber). Building began on October 9-20 (workmen first mistakenly started on the rear of Mr. James Reid's lot on Saddler street), by October 17 it had a veranda all round, and it was to be lighted by electricity. A large water tank was being built beside it by November 16, with an aqueduct to the creek beyond the lacrosse grounds, and J.R. Booth paid Mr. O'Keefe $1,000 for the property and $400 for damages caused by building the station. | Mercury 1893-08-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-08-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1893-10-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-10-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-09(Mr. Mountain: the station at Renfrew to be commenc...),Mercury 1893-10-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1893-10-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-02(Electric lighting of the station, quoting the Renf...),Mercury 1893-11-10(O'Keefe payment. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher ...),Ottawa Journal 1893-11-16(Water tank and aqueduct, quoting the Renfrew Journ...) |
| 1893-11-22 | Carp | The officials of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway were endeavouring to make their road second to none: of late they had spared no pains in levelling off the grounds in the vicinity of the station at Carp and sinking drains taking water from culvert to culvert, work that reflected great credit on the company and had greatly assisted the improvement of the adjacent lands. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-11-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-11-27 | Unidentified Freight Cars | Some fifty more flat cars were to be prepared that week for ballasting work on the Parry Sound construction line, and small canvas shelters for the brakemen who ran the ballast trains, fastened to the flat cars, were being constructed in the mechanical shops on Elgin street; on November 10 the Mercury had reported fifty flat cars prepared for ballasting between Round and Golden Lake, with canvas shelters for the brakemen at each end. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-11-27(Also in the Renfrew Mercury of December 1. Transcr...),Mercury 1893-11-10(Fifty flat cars prepared for ballasting between Ro...) |
| 1893-12-02 | Arnprior Depot | The O.A. & P.S. station at Arnprior was built in 1893. In July the situation was still uncertain (a council meeting on July 19 with Mr. Mountain representing the company reached no conclusion), then the town council gave part of Tierney street for the station grounds — otherwise the station would have been placed in Mansfield — and on August 3 Mr. Mountain said the site had been fixed on Tierney street "right in the center of the town". Mr. Booth and party made final arrangements for the ground, a short distance south of the C.P.R.'s station, and Mr. Donaldson arranged delivery of building material, buying brick and stone; construction had begun by August 22-26 at the end of Tierney street, "a large handsome building". It was expected completed in a week or ten days on October 21, and by December 2 it had been completed and was occupied, its rooms large, clean-looking, airy and handsomely furnished, with red pine finish stained and varnished, "a model one in every respect". | Almonte Gazette 1893-07-21(Arnprior News. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in...),Ottawa Journal 1893-07-28(Council giving part of Tierney street. Transcribed...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-08-03(Mr. Mountain on the station site. Transcribed by C...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-08-09(Booth and party at Arnprior. Transcribed by Colin ...),Almonte Gazette 1893-08-11(Mr. Donaldson buying brick and stone. Transcribed ...),Ottawa Journal 1893-08-26(Construction begun. Transcribed by Colin J. Church...),Ottawa Journal 1893-10-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-12-02(Station completed and occupied. Transcribed by Col...) |
| 1893-12-07 | Canada Atlantic 0-6-0 #2 | The official car of the C.A.R. and engine No. 2 ran off the track in the Bank Street yard; one end of the car was smashed in and yardman Paul Brennan had his shoulder dislocated. | Ottawa Journal 1893-12-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-12-07 | Bank Street | A derailment in the Bank Street yard put the C.A.R. official car and engine No. 2 off the track: the official car was smashed in at one end, and a yardman, Paul Brennan, dislocated a shoulder. | Ottawa Journal 1893-12-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-12-08 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Right-of-way dealings at Renfrew and Admaston in autumn 1893: on October 2 Mr. Booth agreed to pay the South Renfrew Agricultural Society $750 for the right of way through its fair grounds (leaving it the ground between the track and the creek), the railway making a cutting five feet deep through them; on October 10 the company settled with Mr. Jas. O'Connor and tore up part of the Main street bridge, and all rights through town were settled by then except with Mr. John Smith (tanner). Smith resisted the company's order to enter his premises before arbitration; arbitrators Cunningham, James Reeves and George Eady met on November 15, and Smith was awarded $3,700 (plus a crossing), $800 more than the railway offered — Smith wrote the Mercury on December 1 that he still thought he ought to have received more (he valued the damage at $12,000). In Admaston, Mr. Donald Campbell fenced the track when the company had not settled with him; railway men tore it down, and on legal advice they forced their way through and laid the rails. On Smith's property the grading, tie-laying, rail-laying, train running and ballasting were reported done in a single day. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-10-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1893-10-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-28(Smith staying the order; quoting the Renfrew Mercu...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-11-15(Arbitrators named. Transcribed by Colin J. Churche...),Almonte Gazette 1893-12-01(Award of $3,700. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher ...),Mercury 1893-12-08(Letter from Mr. Smith to the editor. Transcribed b...),Mercury 1893-11-10(Admaston fence dispute; the one-day railroading on...) |
| 1893-12-18 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway opened regular passenger and freight service between Ottawa and Eganville, a distance of 74 miles, on Monday, December 18, 1893, with two passenger trains daily. The first train from Eganville (two passenger cars) arrived at Renfrew on time in bitter cold — about ten degrees below zero, with heavy snow cleared from the platform, so few people saw it, the only recorded Renfrew passenger being Mr. J.A. Ferguson of Arnprior — after a snow plough had gone up the line on Sunday; the Journal noted the train brought a number of prominent people from along the line, particularly from Eganville, Douglas and Renfrew. A private inspection of the line between Arnprior and Renfrew was to have been held on December 12, with government inspection of the road to Eganville to follow within a week. The passenger trains were well patronized and officials expected general freight to continue all winter; the first freight to Eganville was a carload of oil for the Samuel Rogers Oil Company, and the first shipments from Eganville to Ottawa were carloads of cattle, lambs and sheep collected by Mr. S. Howard for the butchers Slattery & Terrance. | Ottawa Journal 1893-12-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-12-18(Also an O.A. & P.S. timetable advertisement of the...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-12-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-12-19(First freight to and from Eganville. Transcribed b...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-12-18(First carload of cattle and lambs shipped from Ega...),Mercury 1893-12-22(Account of the first train, dated December 18. Tra...) |
| 1893-12-18 | Douglas Depot | A station at Douglas was among those Mr. Mountain said on October 9, 1893 would be completed that fall west of Renfrew. On November 21 the station house at Douglas, between Renfrew and Eganville, was to be commenced that week, and on Monday, December 18 nine of the twenty boarding cars on the siding at Eganville were taken down to Douglas, where men were commencing the building of the railway station. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-11-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-12-18(Also in the Renfrew Mercury of December 22. Transc...) |
| 1893-12-20 | Eganville Depot | The O.A. & P.S. station at Eganville was among those Mr. Mountain said on October 9, 1893 would be completed that fall. The Eganville Enterprise reported on November 24 that as soon as the rails were laid to Eganville the lumber for the station would be brought up and the station erected. By December 18 the framework of the station had been completed and the work of closing it in begun, and a station platform 200 feet long was being built; some twenty boarding cars stood on the side track. By December 20 the station was "just about complete" and being painted. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-10-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-11-24(Quoting the Eganville Enterprise. Transcribed by C...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-12-18(Framework, platform and boarding cars. Transcribed...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-12-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-12-21 | Canada Atlantic 0-6-0 #2 | Two of the old locomotives that had been working on the construction of the O.A. & P.S. railway during the summer, numbers 2 and 5, both light engines, arrived at the Elgin street yard; unless they were required for extra service in the yard they would be shipped for the winter. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-12-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-12-21 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #5 Richelieu | One of two old locomotives that had worked on the construction of the O.A. & P.S. railway during the summer, No. 5, a light engine, arrived with No. 2 at the Elgin street yard; unless needed for extra service in the yard it would be shipped for the winter. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-12-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-12-22 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Construction contracts west of Renfrew in autumn 1893: the contract for the line through Renfrew village was sub-let to McCarthy Bros., who said in September their part of the track would reach Eganville by November; seven tenders were received in early September for the ten miles from Indian Point, Golden Lake to Killaloe; Mr. Heald had 280 men on the ten miles between Eganville and Golden Lake by November 3 and, having completed that contract, was awarded the next ten miles west of Golden Lake to Killaloe (Dec 22), with right of way to be cut out and work carried on all winter; the eight miles east of Eganville graded by Fauquier Bros. were completed and the men discharged by late October, and another ten-mile grading contract was let in mid-December; over twenty Italians from New York passed through Ottawa on September 25 bound for Eganville construction work, and by December 15 the cessation of work had sent many navvies into Ottawa. | Ottawa Journal 1893-09-18(Renfrew village contract sub-let to McCarthy Bros....),Ottawa Citizen 1893-09-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-08(Tenders for Indian Point to Killaloe. Transcribed ...),Ottawa Journal 1893-11-03(Heald's 280 men; quoting the Renfrew Mercury. Tran...),Ottawa Journal 1893-11-02(Fauquier Bros. finished east of Eganville; quoting...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-26(Italians bound for Eganville. Transcribed by Colin...),Mercury 1893-12-22(Heald awarded ten miles west of Golden Lake. Trans...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-12-15(Navvies in Ottawa. Transcribed by Colin J. Churche...) |
| 1893-12-28 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Beyond Renfrew, track laying on the O.A. & P.S. continued through the winter of 1893: the gravel trains were expected at Renfrew on November 3, some 200 flat cars and eight engines were then serving the ballast trains between Willis' pit near Galetta and the end of track, and rails reached the crossing of the Scotch Bush road at Caldwell's Corners on Saturday, November 18 and Eganville (reported December 1 as having been reached "on Friday"), with ballasting following. The track ran on to Golden Lake and, when track laying finished for the year on December 27, to Indian Point, nine or ten miles beyond Eganville, the end of the grading and the terminus for the winter, where a temporary roundhouse was being built; two engines were still laying ties and steel near Indian Pond as of December 21, and in December the ground frost slowed the work. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-11-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-11-21(Also reports that a station house at Douglas would...),Ottawa Citizen 1893-11-24(Caldwell's Corners, quoting the Eganville Enterpri...),Mercury 1893-12-01(Quoting the Enterprise: rails reached Eganville "o...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-12-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-12-28(Also in the Renfrew Mercury of January 5, 1894. Tr...) |
| 1893-5-9 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Shovel working at Rivington's Pit, Carp. | Correspondence with Colin Churcher |
| 1893-8 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #621-622 | Built by Baldwin as CA 20-21 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1893-8 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #621 | Built by Baldwin as CA 20 C/N 13700 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1893-8 | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #622 | Built by Baldwin as CA 21 C/N 13699 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1893-8 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #710 | Built by Baldwin as OA&PS 100 C/N 13689 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1893-8-9 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Shovel working at Willis's Pit, Galetta. | Correspondence with Colin Churcher |
| 1893-8-9 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Two ballast trains were kept busy at Eastman's Springs hauling earth to Rideau Yard. | Correspondence with Colin Churcher |
| 1894 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0s 651-653 | Renumbered CA 80-82 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1894 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #651 | Renumbered CA 80 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1894 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #652 | Renumbered CA 81 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1894 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #653 | Renumbered CA 82 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1894 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0s #661-662 | Renumbered CA 60,62 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1894 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #661 | Renumbered CA 60 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1894 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #662 | Renumbered CA 62 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1894 | Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #665 | Renumbered CA 61 | Railroad History #147 |
| 1894 | Killaloe | OA&PS Arrives. Town renamed Killaloe Station (Killaloe was 1.5 miles south). Over the next ten years, Killaloe Station became the supply point for as many as eleven lumber camps. | Kennedy p192, partly quoting Martin Garvey's History of Killaloe Station |
| 1894 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Line opened Renfrew to Golden Lake, 28.25 miles | CNRHist |
| 1894 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Renfrew Railway Company | Line opened from Ottawa to Renfrew, 55.5 miles | CNRHist |
| 1894 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | Emsdale (1.82 miles north of Scotia) was listed in a July 2, 1894 GTR time table as a "Union Station" with the Parry Sound Colonization Railway. While the PSCR joined the GTR at what would become Scotia it used the "established community" of Emsdale as its terminus. There was a south to west wye connection to facilitate this operation. | Correspondence with Jeffrey P. Smith |
| 1894 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | Line opened Scotia to Eglington, 30 miles | CNRHist |
| 1894 | William H. Taylor | Taylor "was appointed engineer in 1894". | Ottawa Citizen 1937-07-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894 to 1904 | Frank Turner | From 1894 to 1904 Frank Turner lived on Salisbury Place, Ottawa, just north of the Canada Atlantic yards. | Correspondence with Mark Cullen 2011-12-26(cited on https://sites.google.com/site/canadaatlan...) |
| 1894 to 1906 | Canada Atlantic Stock 1000-1018 | Cars 1000-1018 were listed as either stock cars or single deck stock cars in the Official Railway Equipment Registers. The page gives no specific ORER issue or date for this listing. | ORER(Various issues) |
| 1894-01-02 | Middle Subdivision | Today the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway will have their track completed as far as Indian Point on Golden Lake, a distance of eighty-five miles from this city, but the trains will run only as far as Eganville this winter. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-01-05 | Alexandria | The Dreadful Grade Crossing. Several level crossing disasters are reported, one occurred at Alexandria, on the 5th, when the Ottawa eastbound morning express, while entering the station, struck the sleigh of Mr. Donald Cameron, of Lochiel. The accident occurred at the railway crossing, a little west of the station. Mr Cameron, his daughter Winfred, and a Miss Young, of Montreal, were in the sleigh at the time, and were on their way in to the village with grist for the Alexandria roller mills. Seemingly, they did not hear the whistle, and were opposite the Alexandria Manufacturing Company factory, situated on the north side of the track, when they first perceived the approaching train. Knowing he could not turn his horses and believing he had time to cross, Mr Cameron made the attempt, but had hardly reached the track when the engine struck them, leaving the horses unscratched on the south side, and hurling the sleigh and its occupants to the north side. The two ladies escaped with slight bruises, but Mr Cameron received several scalp wounds and the right thigh bone was broken. Surgical aid was called in, and Mr Cameron is reported as doing well. | Eastern Ontario Review 1894-01-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Almonte Gazette 1894-01-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-01-12 | Middle Subdivision | Mr. M.J. O'Brien, contractor of Renfrew, has been awarded the contract for constructing the third ten mile section west of Eganville on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway. | Almonte Gazette 1894-01-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-01-12 | Arnprior | ARNPRIOR NEWS. As soon as the mail car is put into service on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. we will get our Ottawa papers the evening they are published instead of next day, as we do now. Mr. P. Done, who has the contract of shipping about 400 car loads of lumber from Gillies Bros'. yards, Braeside, is drawing it here and shipping it over the O.A.& P.S. railway. | Almonte Gazette 1894-01-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-01-19 | Renfrew | "Fault is beginning to be found with the new railway already," remarked a merchant to The Mercury last week. "What is the complaint?" was the query. "Why, goods from Montreal are now delivered so quickly that we have to keep them lying around until the invoices arrive by mail." | Mercury 1894-01-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-01-19 | Galetta | While coupling cars at Galetta a brakesman named David Biggar had three fingers of his right hand crushed to a pulp. They had to be amputated. | Almonte Gazette 1894-01-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-01-19 | Eganville | Comment that goods from Montreal were now arriving by train before the invoices which came by mail. | Ottawa Journal 1894-01-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-01-24 | Kinburn | An official of the Parry Sound railway says that at various points along the route of the new road grain elevators are being erected. The one at Kinburn is now complete and several farther up the line will open a local trade within a short time. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-01-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-01-28 | Golden Lake | The O.A. & P.S. Ry., will this week commence the regular delivery of freight at Golden Lake. Passenger trains will not pass Eganville. | Mercury 1894-01-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-01-29 | Arnprior | It may not be generally known but it is a fact nevertheless that Gillies Bros., lumbermen of Braeside, find it sufficiently profitable to warrant their drawing lumber by sleigh to Arnprior and shipping it over the OA&PS tracks. Who says the latter company is not offering inducements? We are not surprised at the C.P.R. making so careful diagnosis of the situation by sending a representative up the line to investigate. According to the Renfrew Mercury, a travelling official of the C.P.R. visited that village recently in search of traffic. | Ottawa Journal 1894-01-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-02-01 | Middle Subdivision | Mail service between Ottawa and Eganville, and intervening points, on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, commenced on Thursday, February 1st. The mail from Ottawa, etc., will arrive by the train due here at 10 a.m.; and from Eganville by the train due at 2.49 p.m. The service will be a great accommodation to merchants and others all along the line. | Mercury 1894-02-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Almonte Gazette 1894-02-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-02-03 | Middle Subdivision | Mr. M.J. O'Brien of Renfrew will commence work next week on his contract west of Killaloe on the O.A. & P.S. He will employ about 60 men for the present, and will increase the number considerably in the spring time. | Ottawa Journal 1894-02-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-02-06 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | J.L.Morris prepared survey from Renfrew to Pembroke. Detailed surveys at Forresters Falls, Portage du Fort and REnfrew where difficulties may arise. | PSMinutes |
| 1894-02-09 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | At a meeting of the railway committee of the Privy Council this morning... The next application was from the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound railway for the extension of time for completing the two bridges across the Canadian Pacific near Ottawa. One of these bridges is to cross the St. Lawrence and Ottawa road near Rochesterville and the other is in the township of Nepean, some six or seven miles from the city near Bell's Corners, to cross the C.P.R. Mr. Christie appeared for the railway and said that owing to the frost coming on before the bridges were built the work in both cases was stopped. He asked that the time for completion be extended to June next; the piers were completed but the material for the superstructure had only been purchased, not yet on the ground. The Canadian Pacific had no objection, and the application was granted. | Ottawa Journal 1894-02-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-02-14 | Car Cleaners Shanty | The car cleaners shanty at the Canada Atlantic railway Elgin street depot was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The damage will be repaired immediately. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-02-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-02-16 | Rideau Canal Bridge | A very singular railway accident occurred on the C.A.R. swing bridge last evening shortly after seven o'clock. A heavily loaded freight train of twenty-eight cars was leaving the yards for Rouse's Point. As usual the train was moving slowly over the swing bridge, in fact part of the train had crossed over and part was upon the bridge, when in some unaccountable way, the two rear cars and the van were derailed. Before the train could be brought to a standstill these cars had been dragged bumping over the timbers of the bridge. Reaching the further end of the bridge the coupling broke and the cars slid down a low embankment into a huge snow drift. When the cars were at first derailed, conductor Lemieux, fearing that they would tumble over the bridge, jumped from the top of the van to the ice of the canal below, a distance of about twenty-five feet, but fortunately was uninjured. One of the brakemen kept on the van until the far end of the bridge was reached where the cars went into the embankment. So severely shaken up were the cars that the trucks of two of them were detached. No one appears to know how the cars became derailed; the switch at the west end of the bridge was securely locked, and the only feasible theory for the accident is that a beam of one of the cars broke and, falling across the rail, derailed the cars. No one is blamed for the accident. | Ottawa Citizen 1894-02-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1894-02-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1894-02-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1894-02-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-02-16 | New Glasgow Depot | The O.A. & P.S. station here (New Glasgow) is about completed, and will soon be ready for occupation. It is a fine structure and a credit for both company and contractor. Besides, we have the most obliging and gentlemanly agent on the line. | Mercury 1894-02-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-02-19 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | Asked subsidies of Twnshp of Westmeath, $30,000, Twnshp Ross, $5000, Portage du Fort, $5000, Twnshp of Storon, the right of way. Two weeks given. | PSMinutes |
| 1894-02-23 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Fighting for the Pass. The appeal case of the C.P.R. against the judgment giving the Opeongo Pass to the Parry Sound railway is now being heard in Toronto before the Chancery divisional court. The courts gave the exclusive right of the pass to the Parry Sound railway company, and the C.P.R. are trying to upset the judgment. The pass in contest is a narrow gap between the mountains in the township of Algoma, county of Renfrew, and is only capable of giving a passage to one line of railway track. | Almonte Gazette 1894-02-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-03-01 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | J.L.Morris makes survey report to board. McAllister to lead deputation to Minister of Railways. | PSMinutes |
| 1894-03-01 | Rideau Canal Bridge | The damage which was done to the swing bridge across the canal at the Canada Atlantic railway by the run off two weeks ago has been repaired. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-03-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-03-01 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The work of preparing for next summer's operations on the construction of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway is going on around the Elgin street depot. Several of the engines which will be employed on the construction have already been rebuilt. No. 6 has lately come out of the shops after a complete overhauling. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-03-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-03-04 | Dochart Bridge | The O.,A. & P.S. railway laid a new iron bridge across the Dochart on Sunday. | Almonte Gazette 1894-03-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-03-15 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | Arrangements for the coming season's work on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway are being pushed ahead. The two steam shovels which did such effective work last year will begin to operate next week; one which has been at the Carp this winter will operate in the large gravel pit near that place, the other, now in the Elgin street yards, will probably be located at the newer pit in the neighborhood of Eganville. Until the snowfall disappears several of the trestle works will be filled up and the roadbed further strengthened. For about one week past men have been employed filling up a trestle work on this side of Eganville where the track crosses Moore's Creek. At least two hundred flatcars will go up the line as soon as the shovels commence work. MORE NEW ENGINES: it is said that the company has ordered three new locomotives from Philadelphia to be used on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, freight engines slightly smaller than the Canada Atlantic mogul No. 100, expected early in May. As soon as the yards are cleared of snow a number of the hands now employed in the mechanical shops in this city will start the erection of a large number of new flat cars to be used on the Parry Sound Railway; about one hundred cars are expected to be built this spring. INCREASING THE SHOPS: the present mechanical shops have been found rather small for the amount of repairs for both the C.A.R. and Parry Sound lines, and the company will erect a larger and more suitable structure in another part of the yards; the present mechanical shops will be used as painting shops. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-03-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1894-03-19 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | Fortin and Jamieson to go to Toronto to meet with Ry Committee to try to get a bonus. | PSMinutes |
| 1894-03-21 | Carp | The workers of the steam shovel are beginning to talk gravel. They are billed for the 1st of April. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-03-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |