Coteau Junction

Date	Statement	Source
1887-06-20	The new brick station house at Coteau will be completed by Monday next.	Ottawa Free Press 1887-06-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...)
1898-02-17≥	A collision occurred on the Canada Atlantic railway at Coteau du Las last week but fortunately no lives were lost. (As reported by 17 February 1898; the source dates the event only relatively.) 'Coteau du Las' as transcribed (Coteau du Lac?); place not matched to a site entity.	Kemptville Advance 1898-02-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1898-10-10	Joseph Lemieux, 18 years of age, a brakeman on the Canada Atlantic railway, was killed on Saturday night at 12 o'clock at Coteau Junction by being crushed under the wheels of five freight cars. Lemieux was in the act of coupling the car and when moving with the train as it came together tripped and fell beneath the wheels, five cars passing over him before the train was stopped. ... died early yesterday morning. The Montreal Star of 1898-10-14 says he was killed 'at Coteau Landing on Sunday'.	Ottawa Journal 1898-10-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1898-10-14	Excusable homicide was the verdict rendered by the Coroner's jury at the inquest on the death of Joseph Lemieux, who was killed by an engine of the Canada Atlantic at Coteau Landing on Sunday. Coteau Landing is read as Coteau Junction, per the Ottawa Journal of 1898-10-10; check.	Montreal Star 1898-10-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1905-07-21	Fred Donovan, a brakeman on the C.A.R., was run over and killed at Coteau last week.	Eastern Ontario Review 1905-07-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1909-03-12	W.J. Finner, a fireman on the G.T.R. between Coteau and Hawkesbury, had his leg broken in an accident that occurred at Coteau on Sunday night. Finner was standing on the tender of the engine during a stop when the engine was taking water, and in some way fell to the ground, sustaining a badly broken leg. The accident, it is thought, was due to the engine suddenly starting, but it is not known if anyone was at all to blame.	Eastern Ontario Review 1909-03-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1915-02-06	A Brockville Grand Trunk Railway brakeman named W. Saundercook met his death on the line at Coteau. The train upon which he was working was pulling away freight from the junction when Saundercook was missed, and a search revealed his mangled remains alongside the track. The supposition is that he slipped and fell from the top of a car.	Eastern Ontario Review 1915-02-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1917-01-16	A fatal accident occurred at Coteau, resulting in the death of Alexander Lauzon. The young man was boarding the Toronto train and slipped under the platform and was dragged 175 feet. He had his scalp taken off, arm bruised, and suffered other severe injuries from which he died that evening, never regaining consciousness. Deceased, 21 years of age, was a son of the late Alexander Lauzon of Coteau Junction. The remains were taken to Williamstown and interred beside those of his father.	Eastern Ontario Review 1917-02-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1921-02-11	"Ice on the St. Lawrence for use on the Grand Trunk at Coteau Junction is now being harvested at Valleyfield, Que., and being stored at Coteau." Item names the Grand Trunk at Coteau Junction; it does not say which line the ice is for.	Eastern Ontario Review 1921-02-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1922-10-06≥	By 6 October 1922 (the issue date), the paper reported: "The value of Grand Trunk first aid training was demonstrated in a striking way at Coteau Junction when a telephone message was received by locomotive Foreman Maw, at the roundhouse, that the little son of J.D. Fletcher, Grand Trunk brake man, had swallowed poison." The foreman and an assistant trained in first aid reached the house on an engine and treated the child, who was recovering. The roundhouse is mentioned only as where the foreman was; no roundhouse entity exists at Coteau Junction.	Eastern Ontario Review 1922-10-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1935-07-13	"Quebec provincial police took nine men off an Ottawa-bound freight train here early today in the belief they were connected with the hunger march of Montreal unemployed to Ottawa... Officers lodged them in cells here and resumed their guard over the railway yards." Filed on Coteau Junction as the place the Ottawa-bound freight train was stopped; the item's dateline is 'Coteau Station'.	Ottawa Citizen 1935-07-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)