Eganville

Date	Statement	Source
1892-06-03	Mr. James Reeves of Eganville received a letter from Mr. J.R. Booth explaining why the line could not be brought through the village of Eganville itself: Mountain's plans showed the town route would require a heavier grade than anywhere else on the line and a bad curve, adding about $24,000 to the cost, and Booth feared the railway would eventually be forced to adopt the lighter-grade route anyway. He hoped Eganville's people would help get the road started as soon as possible by providing right of way, and asked that the line come via Eganville, Renfrew and Arnprior, saying the municipalities' action on this would materially affect which route the company adopted.	Mercury 1892-06-03(Renfrew Mercury, quoting the Eganville Enterprise....)
1894-01-19	Comment that goods from Montreal were now arriving by train before the invoices which came by mail. Churcher's own compressed summary of the item (no quotation marks in the source transcription), not a verbatim quote from the Ottawa Journal.	Ottawa Journal 1894-01-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1894-06-01	The Fitzroy Agricultural Society excursion to Ottawa on June 7 will start from Eganville on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. Rates are less than half the regular fare.	Almonte Gazette 1894-06-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1894-07-03	The pretty little town of Eganville was taken possession of yesterday by nearly 5,000 Ottawans who took in the excursion to that place conducted by St. Patrick's literary (or library) association. The excursion from Ottawa was run over the O.A. & P.S.	Ottawa Journal 1894-07-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1894-11-30	Mr. C. McKiernan is getting names to a petition to get a siding on the O.A. & P.S. Railway at the place known as the Spring Creek on the Perreault Road. A siding there would be very beneficial to the farmers in this country as it is very inconvenient for them to take their stuff to the Eganville station. A great many have signed the petition, and it is very probable that the work of construction will commence soon.	Mercury 1894-11-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...)
1897-02-26≥	The pump house at the O.A. & P.S. Ry. station was burned on Thursday night. The building was totally destroyed and the machinery rendered almost worthless. The loss will be about 800 dollars; insured. The origin of the fire is unknown. Three carloads of materials and machinery arrived next day and a gang of men in charge of Inspector O'Neill, are now at work on the new building. (As reported by 26 February 1897; the source dates the event only relatively.) From the Eganville Enterprise; pump house not an entity, so filed on Eganville.	Mercury 1897-02-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1897-03-05≥	Jamieson Bros. of Eganville have a contract for loading square timbers on the cars at the O., A. & P.S. railway station, and on Monday morning found it necessary to haul a loaded car to make room for an empty, and the place being on a down grade the car moved with greater speed than was expected, and one of the horses was knocked down and shoved for a distance ahead of the car. The animal's limbs are severely cut and it is otherwise injured. (As reported by 5 March 1897; the source dates the event only relatively.)	Almonte Gazette 1897-03-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1898-09-06	Eganville, Sept. 3. - A very serious accident occurred on the O., A. & P.S. railway this evening. While the section men were returning from work on their car one of the handles of the car broke and James O'Brien fell in front of the car which passed over him. Mr. O'Brien is under the care of Dr. Reeves.	Ottawa Citizen 1898-09-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1899-07-07	Superintendent H.B. Spencer of the C.P.R. says that the new Arnprior station will be put up with all possible haste - so says the Ottawa Citizen. He told us the same story five weeks ago - that the new station at Eganville would be pushed ahead at once. Still no work has been commenced. About the CPR's stations at Arnprior and Eganville; recorded because it names the CPR's Eganville station as still unbuilt, for context, though the item itself concerns the CPR not the OA&PS.	Mercury 1899-07-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1899-10-13	The Eganville Enterprise says that the village is badly in want of a new C.P.R. station. About the CPR's Eganville station, recorded for context; the item does not concern the OA&PS.	Almonte Gazette 1899-10-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1900-03-02	Mr. A. Geraldi, formerly station agent at Kinburn, is now in charge of the station at Eganville.	Almonte Gazette 1900-03-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1900-05-11	The C.P.R. Co. is making some local improvements. Men are at work planking the railway for several hundred feet east of the post office. Quoting the Eganville Enterprise; about the CPR's own Eganville branch, recorded for context. Caution tag.	Mercury 1900-05-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1905-07-07	Lemon Bros. circus pitched tents near CAR station.	leader
1905-08-25	First automobile seen in town, from Pembroke.	leader
1908-05-22	Messrs. Reinke & Boland this week shipped a carload of door and window frames to Algonquin Park. This is a portion of a contract received from them for the new hotel at that place and is probably the first carload of material of this nature ever shipped out of town. Source does not name the railway; Algonquin Park was reached by the former Canada Atlantic/Parry Sound line, not the CPR, so filed here rather than left unattributable.	Mercury 1908-05-22(Quoting the Eganville Star-Enterprise. Transcribed...)
1914	Station burned. Railway cars used until replacement constructed.	Fleming Eganville and District Old Home Week Souvenir. Aug 1-6, 1948
1915-04-30	GTR station and freight shed burned. Perhaps started by cigar or cigarette butt thrown under platform? Agent Smith and family escaped. Passenger car on siding serving as station.	leader
1915?	Jack Redmond's father, a section foreman, "was killed when he and two other men were riding a handcar about a mile west of Eganville. They met a train and tried to get the car off the track. The other two jumped clear. Jack was only eight years old". The year is derived (inference): the item gives Redmond's age as 63 in 1970 and eight at his father's death, which points to about 1915. The item does not name the railway.	Ottawa Citizen 1970-06-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1917-06-22	GTR starts construction of new station and separate agent's residence.	leader
1918	New station constructed.	Fleming Eganville and District Old Home Week Souvenir. Aug 1-6, 1948
1921-12-27	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." Churcher's 5 January 1922 Winchester Press item about a man who 'tries to beat the train to the railway crossing near Eganville' last week does not name the railway and is not treated as the same event.	Eastern Ontario Review 1922-01-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1922-08-24	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." Filed on Eganville as the nearest named place; the derailment was "a few miles west of Eganville", not at it.	Ottawa Journal 1922-08-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1930-12-12	CNR constructed a siding about a mile south-east of town at Spring Creek crossing (Eganville-Perrault road) for pulpwood etc.	leader
1947-09-08≥	By 8 September 1947 (the issue date), the paper reported: Three people were killed and one critically hurt when an automobile "plowed into the engine of the CNR's Ottawa to Barry's Bay Special one mile east of" Eganville on Saturday afternoon at 5.30, as the train, drawing five coaches, moved west across the Spring street crossing on Highway 41. The driver was Albert Kelly; the engineer was George Turner, the conductor William Swinwood; a piston on the engine was broken but the train continued to Barry's Bay.	Ottawa Citizen 1947-09-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1953-12-04≥	By 4 December 1953 (the issue date), the paper reported: August Vituski, about 30, of Cormac, "was seriously injured when the car he was driving was struck by a CNR freight train at a level crossing one mile west of here last evening" in heavy fog, at about 8.30 p.m.; the westbound freight was Extra No. 2567 under Engineer John Harper.	Ottawa Citizen 1953-12-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1969?	Jack Redmond, the Eganville stationmaster, recalled "the telegraph conversations that ended just a year ago. 'We never used the phone when we wanted to talk back and forth.'" He said passenger service "ended eight years ago". The year is derived from the item's "just a year ago" and is only approximate. The "eight years ago" passenger service end disagrees with the 1961 Ottawa-Barry's Bay discontinuance filed elsewhere.	Ottawa Citizen 1970-06-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1970-11-21≥	By 21 November 1970 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Canadian National Railways has been given permission by the Canadian Transport Commisson to remove agents from seven stations in Ontario and Quebec"; "The points affected are St. Anne de bellevue and Pointe Claire in Quebec and the Ontario stations in Maxville, Casselman, Vars, Renfrew and Eganville." The commission noted that each station, as long as it is serviced by passenger trains, "shall be 'kept clean, heated and lighted.'" One item about several stations; filed once for each of the five Ontario stations it names.	Ottawa Journal 1970-11-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Eganville Leader 1970-11-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1970-11-25	Permission granted to remove agent.	leader
	1898-05-27: 13 cattle, valued at $275, killed near Eganville.	Fleming Renfrew Mercury