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Vankleek Hill
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History
33 facts
| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1891-10-26 | The contractor is busy building the station for the Central Counties Railway. | Ottawa Journal 1891-10-26(Location not stated in the source; filed on Vankle...) | |
| 1894-07-20 | The station is getting to be quite a lovers walk in the evening. The boys and their sweethearts take a quiet stroll down and back the past few nights particularly to enjoy the bright moonlight. | Eastern Ontario Review 1894-07-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-09-25≥ | The excursion train which left here on Thursday morning is said to have carried the largest number of passengers ever taken into Ottawa in one train, it was composed of seventeen cars and carried over seventeen-hundred excursionists. (As reported by 25 September 1896; the source dates the event only relatively.) INFERENCE: the source does not name the railway. It is taken to be the Canada Atlantic because no other railway was running at Vankleek Hill before the Montreal and Ottawa opened on 21 December 1896 (per Eastern Ontario Review items in the same Churcher file). Accepted by the maintainer. | Eastern Ontario Review 1896-09-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-11-20≥ | On Sunday night last a car at the Canada Atlantic depot was broken open by thieves and three pairs of boots and one pair of slippers stolen from the boxes of merchandise. (As reported by 20 November 1896; the source dates the event only relatively.) Item is in the Vankleek Hill column; the source says 'the Canada Atlantic depot' without naming the place, which is inferred from the column. | Eastern Ontario Review 1896-11-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-09-23 | Seven full car loads of freight came into town in five days last week over the C.A.R. | Eastern Ontario Review 1898-09-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-11-18 | Material has been received at the C.A.R. depot to make extensive repairs to the station and surroundings. Vankleek Hill has no depot entity; filed on Vankleek Hill. | Eastern Ontario Review 1898-11-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-02-24 | Mr. A. Lajeunesse, has started a freight delivery wagon to and from the C.A.R. | Eastern Ontario Review 1899-02-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-08-18 | Agent Tomkins of the C.A.R. has been hiring men and sending them to Parry Sound this week to assist in handling grain. | Eastern Ontario Review 1899-08-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-09-15 | The C.A.R. are putting in a new siding at the pulp mills. | Eastern Ontario Review 1899-09-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-11-10 | The trial of two little boys summoned by the C.A.R. detective for throwing stones at passing trains, was laid on Friday last before the local magistrates. ... Mr. Donaldson of the C.A.R. appeared on behalf of the company, but owing to the boys being so young did not press the case. | Eastern Ontario Review 1899-11-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-11-24 | The C.A.R. depot presents a busy sight now nearly every day. Messrs. Revary and Vrevier are shipping large numbers of cattle and Mr. John Node is having large quantities of hay shipped. | Eastern Ontario Review 1899-11-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-01-19 | Very large shipments of hay, grain and livestock were made from both stations here last week. Two carloads of grain were delivered by farmers at the C.A.R. one day. | Eastern Ontario Review 1900-01-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-02-02 | Large quantities of St. Lawrence river ice are being shipped into town by the C.A.R and will be sold here. | Eastern Ontario Review 1900-02-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-02-16 | A new sign board and lamps to be used by the C.A.R. at this station have been put into position and add considerably to the exterior appearance of the building. | Eastern Ontario Review 1900-02-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-07-06 | Mr. C.Y. Northcott, merchant, shipped this week six car loads of oats via C.A.R. Each car holds from 1000 to 1200 bushels. | Eastern Ontario Review 1900-07-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1903-04-17 | A gang of Italians arrived at the C.A.R. station at Vankleek Hill to take the place of the striking trackmen. A score of boys and young men, thinking it would be good fun to scare the foreigners, armed themselves with stones and attacked the car, yelling, and one discharged a gun; the Italians took to the bush in alarm. The next day several C.A.R. detectives arrived and got the names of some of the boys involved. Superintendent Donaldson and a solicitor for the Company laid a charge against Victor Blackwell and a young man named McIntosh. McIntosh appeared before Magistrate Thistlethwaite and pleaded guilty, and was remanded until Monday next. | Eastern Ontario Review 1903-04-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1904-02-26 | There were large shipments of horses and cattle from the C.A.R. station here (Vankleek Hill) Tuesday last. | Eastern Ontario Review 1904-02-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1905-01-13 | The C.A.R. is bringing in some very fine ice for sale here this year. Any citizen wanting ice should notify Mr. Goodier at once. The price will be 75c per ton at the station here. | Eastern Ontario Review 1905-01-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1905-02-10 | A. Cameron, foreman for Mr. J.T. Schell, Alexandria, is engaged at present loading logs at the C.A.R. station here (Vankleek Hill). | Eastern Ontario Review 1905-02-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1905-04-07 | A union bus now does the business between the Hotels and the Canada Atlantic station. Mr. Joe Bray is the owner of the bus. | Eastern Ontario Review 1905-04-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1905-06-09 | Mr. Ed Flood, proprietor of the Windsor, has put on a fine new bus to the C.A.R. station. He has hitched to it one of the best team of drivers in Eastern Ontario. It makes an attractive turnout and does credit to the 'Windsor'. | Eastern Ontario Review 1905-06-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1908-02-20 | An engine got off the track in the G.T.R. yard here yesterday and tied up the trains for the day. There were no morning trains at all. | Eastern Ontario Review 1908-02-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1908-05-12 | A freight train on the G.T.R. got off the track here on Tuesday evening and did not get away until Wednesday forenoon. | Eastern Ontario Review 1908-05-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1914-12-09 | The worst railway accident recorded in the vicinity of Vankleek Hill occurred on Wednesday night shortly after six o'clock, when Moses Cameron, his wife, and Mrs. Joseph Dupuis were struck and killed by a G.T.R. train at a private crossing at Steele's Brickyard, about two miles from town, leaving six children under 13 years old without father or mother. The regular evening train from Vankleek Hill to Hawkesbury, running about thirty to thirty-five miles an hour on a downgrade, struck the horse and buggy as they crossed; no one saw the accident and none of the three survived to tell the story. The engineer did not see them until he saw the horse go into the air and felt the jar on his engine. The bodies were found several yards from the crossing; death came almost instantly. The train hurried to Hawkesbury and returned with two doctors, but nothing could be done. The horse was killed and the buggy broken into matchwood. Driver Whitmore and Conductor McDonald, in charge of the train, had seen many years of service and were badly shaken by the accident, their first. | Eastern Ontario Review 1914-12-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Morrisburg Leader 1914-12-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, same collection,...) | |
| 1915-10-29 | The old Canada Atlantic Railway Stations will soon be out of sight. Several of them have been destroyed by fire in the past few years. Unless the one in Vankleek Hill burns pretty soon it will fall down. It is a disgrace to the Grand Trunk Railway Company. The item measures the Grand Trunk's upkeep of the inherited Canada Atlantic stations against the standard the old company had set, so it is filed on the Canada Atlantic Railway Company itself, per the comparison exception. | Eastern Ontario Review 1915-10-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1918-02-05 | On account of the very severe weather, trains on the G.T.R. branch were cancelled on Tuesday and Wednesday. | Eastern Ontario Review 1918-02-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1918-07-16 | Two G.T.R. detectives were here looking for the parties who placed rocks on the tracks near the station. They have secured the names of several boys who have been on the track, and as this offence is a very serious one these boys may be arrested any day. | Eastern Ontario Review 1918-07-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1922-04-28 | "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...) | |
| 1928-01-12≥ | 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...) | |
| 1984-01-16≥ | By 16 January 1984 (the issue date), the paper reported: Daniel Lavoie, 15, of Vankleek Hill, "is in hospital with multiple fractures after the truck in which he was a passenger struck a Canadian National train at a crossing in Vankleek Hill Saturday", at about 11 a.m. on Main Street East; the truck, at about 20 kilometres an hour, struck an eastbound locomotive pulling 14 freight cars at about 25 kmh. The driver, Jermain Fauteux, 25, was treated for minor fractures. | Ottawa Citizen 1984-01-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 2006-08-02≥ | By 2 August 2006 (the issue date), the paper reported: A Prescott Russell Trails vehicle "was brought to a halt recently by an Ottawa Central Railway (OCR) flag man" on the trail "just east of Highway 34 near Vankleek Hill", where the OCR tracks cross the trail. OCR general manager James Allen said heavy equipment could not cross without a flag man "at a cost of about $1,000 the first 8-hour day, and $800 for each subsequent day", under the Railway Safety Act. Filed on Vankleek Hill, the place the item names for the crossing of the trail. | Eastern Ontario Review 2006-08-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 2009-02-18≥ | By 18 February 2009 (the issue date), the paper reported: Residents of Vankleek Hill complained about "the noise and smell of diesel" from idling trains kept at the base of the hill near the industrial park. CN's Ottawa Central Railway division said "CN trains without block heaters must be left idling until the ambient temperature outside is above 10 degrees Celsius"; at a meeting on February 17 Champlain councillor Paul Emile Duval gave CN "a week" for a solution, though CN said it was "much more looking at a solution for next fall". On 9 March MP Pierre Lemieux wrote to CN about a petition of almost 300 names; by 28 October Mayor Gary Barton said CN had assured him "they wouldn't be there this fall". Several items about one dispute, filed as one fact. | Eastern Ontario Review 2009-02-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Eastern Ontario Review 2009-03-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Eastern Ontario Review 2009-10-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 2009-03-31 | "On Tuesday March 31 at about 7:40 a freight train operated by Ottawa Central Railway, a division of CN rail, passed over highway 34 and derailed." Three freight cars slipped off the tracks, no one was hurt, and the train, carrying steel coils from Ivaco Rolling Mills, was going about 16 km an hour; "The train derailed due to the track conditions," said J.C. Santerre, the local manager. Crews rerailed it about 4:30 on Wednesday. | Eastern Ontario Review 2009-04-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
Practices
1 fact
| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1906-08-31 | No More Free Rides. There will be no more free bus rides between the town and the Grand Trunk station. This week the Grand Central and Windsor Hotel Proprietors agreed to withdraw their bus service and let one union bus do the business. Mr. Dumas has purchased the bus of the Grand Central and the bus team from the Windsor and will handle the passengers from both hotels. The fare to be charged will be ten cents. Mr. Dumas is entering into a three year contract. | Eastern Ontario Review 1906-08-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |