Kinburn

Date	Statement	Source
1893-07-17	Eight men working under Tomlinson to construct station. CA also grading yard and putting in sidings and switches. Thanks Colin Churcher	Renfrew Mercury, 1893-07-17
1893-07-28	Station nearly completed. Thanks Colin Churcher	Renfrew Mercury, 1893-07-28
1894-01-24	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...)
1914-06-21	Two men were killed and three others more or less seriously injured when two freight trains collided head-on on the Parry Sound line of the Grand Trunk railway about a mile west of Kinburn, at Smiths Crossing, at 9:30 the previous night, as a result, it is believed, of a misunderstanding of orders. The dead men were the firemen on the engines, H. Jessop, who was firing the eastbound train and boarded at 397 Elgin Street, Ottawa, and E. O'Connor, a native of Arnprior, employed at similar work on the other; both were single. The injured were George Smith of Ottawa, engineer of the westbound train, injured in the right arm and right ankle; W.J. Moylan, brakeman; and E. Carroll, brakeman, left ankle injured.	Eastern Ontario Review 1914-06-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1914-06-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, same collection,...)
1920-09-28	The Ottawa-Pembroke G.T.R. local collided with a buggy at Kinburn, injuring Mrs. Walter Acres and her four-year-old son Howard, whose escape from death seemed miraculous; the horse was instantly killed and the buggy completely wrecked. Mrs. Acres suffered a fractured hip and internal injuries, and the boy severe injuries to his head; both suffered greatly from shock. Mrs. Acres, driving up to the village to shop, apparently did not see the train until it was almost upon her and attempted to cross ahead of it; the crossing was not considered dangerous, having clear vision on both sides. The accident occurred about 9:40 a.m. A follow-up report two days later said both mother and son were slightly improved and expected to recover.	Ottawa Citizen 1920-09-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1922-12-18≥	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. Filed on Kinburn at the operator's direction; the derailment was between Kinburn and Carp. Churcher adds "Also in the Ottawa Citizen same date" (not transcribed).	Ottawa Journal 1922-12-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1932-11-17≥	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...)
1934-01-02≥	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. Filed on Kinburn, where the passengers were transferred; the same item covers other places.	Ottawa Citizen 1934-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1935	Station burned Thanks Colin Churcher	Aubrey photo 5645
1938-04-07	Leonard Laughlin, driving a truck loaded with gravel, "was struck by a C.N.R. diesel driven car at a level crossing" at Kinburn this morning, and the truck was turned over. The Journal says the crash was at 10.10 a.m. and that the driver's view of the eastbound C.N.R. passenger train from Madawaska "was obscured by a box-car near the crossing"; the Citizen gives 10.45. Neither he nor William Cole of Galetta was hurt.	Ottawa Journal 1938-04-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1938-04-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1939-11-13	Two Ottawa men were injured "and the locomotive on the Canadian National Railways Pembroke-Ottawa passenger train was disabled when a truck crashed into the tender of the train at a level crossing near here at 3.30 p.m. today". The accident was on the Kinburn side road a short distance west of Kinburn station; the tender's water tank was punctured and the train, due at 4.20, was delayed more than an hour and a half while another locomotive was sent from the city.	Ottawa Journal 1939-11-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1955-01-26	Murray Findlay "escaped serious injury when a truck he was driving was struck by a CNR freight train at the level crossing in Kinburn", thrown out and shaken up; the bags of grain he was taking to the Leo Cotton elevator were scattered along the roadway.	Ottawa Citizen 1955-01-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1959-summer	Station burned Thanks Colin Churcher	Aubrey photo 754
1967-01-14≥	By 14 January 1967 (the issue date), the paper reported: Calvin Mulligan, 19, of RR 2 Carp, "was thrown onto the pavement and suffered only minor back injuries" when his tank truck, carrying 1,000 gallons of fuel oil, hit a freight train near Kinburn on Friday about 11.30 a.m. on the road from Old Highway 17 into Kinburn; he "did not see the 17-car Canadian National Freight train coming until it was too late to stop". The truck "flipped 32 feet in the air" and landed in a ditch; the train continued west. Filed on Kinburn, the place the item names for the road into Kinburn (as with the earlier Kinburn-Carp item).	Ottawa Citizen 1967-01-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)