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Moose Creek
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| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880-11 | In November 1880 H. A. Pangborn, "master mechanic of the new Canada Atlantic Railway, then under construction", visited the Q.M.O.&O. shops in Montreal looking for somebody to look after construction at night and was recommended Phil Roy, aged 16. Roy "soon found himself at the Moose Creek gravel pits. All that winter and into the spring of 1881, he kept steam up at night on an engine and had it in condition for the next days work." In the winter of 1880-1881 "the bears were so bold that they ventured on to the construction rails, even in daytime." | Ottawa Citizen 1931-01-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1888-08-03 | Grand Trunk ballast trains of 65 cars each are at present engaged in drawing gravel daily from the Moose Creek pit, on the C.A.R., for the new double track laid from Coteau to Cornwall. | Ottawa Free Press 1888-08-03(The construction described is the Grand Trunk's ow...) | |
| 1909-11-26 | Work is at once to be started on two new railway stations which the Grand Trunk authorities will erect. One will be at Moose Creek and the other at Heneysburg near Coteau. The foundations will be of concrete and the superstructures of wood. Heneysburg has no entity on the site yet; the Moose Creek half of this item is filed here, and the Heneysburg half is held (see held/1909.json). | Ottawa Journal 1909-11-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1936-09-28≥ | 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...) | |
| 1937-09-07≥ | 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...) | |
| 1955-04-14≥ | By 14 April 1955 (the issue date), the paper reported: Fire "last night levelled the CNR station on the Ottawa-Montreal main line here, destroying some baggage and express parcels and railroad telegraphy equipment"; "Four hours later an old abandoned one room shack was also destroyed by fire near the village." The Citizen says it broke out at 11 o'clock and damaged rails and disrupted telegraph communications between Ottawa and Montreal; trains were routed over a passing track. The fire was believed to have started in the station freight room, and a temporary structure was to be erected at once. The station agent was Armand Poulin. Filed on Moose Creek, since no Moose Creek depot entity exists. | Ottawa Journal 1955-04-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1955-04-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1961-11-02≥ | By 2 November 1961 (the issue date), the paper reported: "A six-year-old boy was killed and his father critically injured yesterday afternoon when a truck and train collided here." Gerald Larocque, son of the driver Gerald Larocque, 41, of Chute a Blondeau, was in a 1956 stake truck. | Ottawa Citizen 1961-11-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1979-01-16≥ | By 16 January 1979 (the issue date), the paper reported: Wilbur Argyle, 54, of Morrisburg, and Dennis Mortimer, 29, of Calgary "were killed Monday afternoon when their van crashed with a freight train on Highway 138 about three kilometres south" of Moose Creek, at 12.25 p.m.; "The train, a CNR freight, was eastbound for Montreal." The red railway warning flashers were activated, police said. | Ottawa Citizen 1979-01-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1980-10-17≥ | By 17 October 1980 (the issue date), the paper reported: Donald Empey, 22, of Nepean, "was killed and three other men seriously injured Thursday when a small van collided with a passenger train at a level crossing near Moose Creek" about 2:25 p.m.; the van skidded on the gravel road into the path of Canadian National's Ottawa-Montreal train. "There are no signals at the 8th Concession Road crossing where the accident occurred". | Ottawa Citizen 1980-10-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1981-01-22≥ | By 22 January 1981 (the issue date), the paper reported: "An Ottawa woman was killed and her husband critically injured when their car smashed into a passenger train at a level crossing near Moose Creek": Evelyn Sproule, 55, "died instantly in the accident when her husband Thomas, 58, was apparently blinded by the sun and failed to see the approaching VIA Rail Rapido train as it sped through the crossing on Hwy. 138, about four kilometres south of Moose Creek." The signal lights were working at the time of the 11:25 a.m. accident; "The collision derailed the first coach of the Ottawa-Montreal Rapido", and four other trains were rerouted onto Canadian Pacific tracks during the six hours of repairs. "This was the third fatality during the last two years at the railway crossing". | Ottawa Citizen 1981-01-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1981-01-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1981-06-12≥ | By 12 June 1981 (the issue date), the paper reported: A coroner's jury at Cornwall "recommended Thursday" that "a barrier should be installed at a railway crossing on Hwy. 138 where an Ottawa couple was killed in a car-train crash last January", and urged that the speed limit be reduced and passing disallowed at the approaches to the crossing, "just south of Moose Creek"; it ruled the deaths of Thomas and Evelyn Sproule accidental. The inquest was told that "the accident, the second double-fatality at the crossing in less than two years", followed one on Jan. 15, 1979, when two Alberta residents died; Thomas died seven days after the crash. Follows the crossing accident of January 1981. | Ottawa Citizen 1981-06-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1985-04-10≥ | By 10 April 1985 (the issue date), the paper reported: Sharon Rombough, 37, "was killed instantly Tuesday afternoon when her car was struck by a Montreal-to-Ottawa VIA passenger train at a level crossing near her home on the outskirts of Moose Creek", at 4:10 p.m., the two-car train with 90 passengers delayed two hours. "The crossing's flashing warning lights were working and police say it's a mystery why Rombough continued across the tracks". | Ottawa Citizen 1985-04-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1988-07-12≥ | By 12 July 1988 (the issue date), the paper reported: Albert Houle, 79, "died after being hit by a train Monday afternoon": police believed he "suffered from severe hearing loss" and did not hear the train; "there are warning lights and bells" though no barriers, the tracks being "just down the street from the retirement home at 250 Labrosse St". | Ottawa Citizen 1988-07-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1992-08-25 | A VIA Rail passenger train, train 31 from Montreal, "slammed broadside into the van at 145 kilometres an hour" at a level crossing on Hwy. 138, about 30 kilometres north of Cornwall, at 8:45 a.m. Of eight people in the van, "Lynn Lalande, 24, of Kanata and Kelly Harris, 29, of Orleans died in the crash." "Flashing lights and warning signals were operating for 22 seconds before the van loaded with eight people drove into the train's path." "There have been two other fatal crashes at that crossing since 1981." The driver, Abdul Nasser Jabbari, was charged, and on 30 June 1993 a judge fined him $1,000 for careless driving. The 24 October item names the road as Hwy. 38, a slip for 138. | Ottawa Citizen 1992-08-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1992-08-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1992-10-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1993-07-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| J. H. MacLeod, recalling his start on the Canada Atlantic at about 13, "went to the C.A.R. gravel pit at Moose creek and found himself a job as a water boy and timekeeper." Soon after, he saw "one of the accidents peculiar to hand coupling": Andy Leamy of Ottawa, coupling two gravel cars, had two fingers of his right hand jammed and they had to be amputated by the doctor at Moose Creek, with no anaesthetic; W. (Fox) Hughes was conductor of the train. Undated: the source says only that MacLeod was about 13 when he started and that he spent 23 years on the road. | Ottawa Citizen 1933-02-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | ||
| Rory Grant of Moose Creek, "a fine young fellow of 24 or 25", was fatally injured at the C.A.R. gravel pit: standing inside a hopper car on a siding making repairs to some chains, he was unseen when "a gravel train backed down on the car where young Grant was, to pick it up. Grant was rolled over and fatally injured. He lived for a while." Undated; the source places it soon after MacLeod started at the gravel pit. | Ottawa Citizen 1933-02-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |