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| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1884-07-26 | The City Corporation in conjunction with the Canada Atlantic Railway Company, is doing good work in grading Broad Street in front of the railway stations. The work was decidedly needed. | Ottawa Citizen 1884-07-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1884-11-28 | Improvements are being made at the Canada Atlantic depot, Chaudiere, to facilitate the shipment of lumber during the winter months. Two new plank walks have been constructed and rails laid, for the accommodation of five trains side by side. | Ottawa Free Press 1884-11-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1884-12-05 | The Canada Atlantic Railway in order to accommodate their largely increased traffic in the shipment of lumber have laid extra tracks at their Chaudiere Depot. This will very much facilitate the movement of lumber during the winter months. | Ottawa Citizen 1884-12-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1889-01-12≥ | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company shipped last week from the Chaudiere 245 car loads of lumber to Montreal and New England points. These are large shipments for this time of year. | Ottawa Journal 1889-01-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1889-09-21≥ | The shipping of lumber from the Chaudiere Junction of the Canada Atlantic Railway is lively at present. During the past week close on to 5,000,000 feet were shipped. | Ottawa Free Press 1889-09-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1890-02-06 | Messrs. Brewder & McNaught, contractors for the laying of the new steel pipe, got through the troublesome work of fixing the pipe in the aqueduct under the Canada Atlantic bridge today. After construction of the first pier they will put on another gang of men at work. | Ottawa Free Press 1890-02-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1890-04-16 | The Chaudiere yards of the C.A.R. are rapidly growing busier, and the prospects show that a brisk season's trade will be done. For some time past there has been a great dearth of cars, but now the car famine has terminated and over one hundred cars a day are being loaded and despatched. | Ottawa Journal 1890-04-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Canada Lumberman 1890-05-01(Repeats: 'Now that the car famine has terminated, ...) | |
| 1890-11-05 | Brisk work at the Chaudiere: the supply of cars is far short of demand. The C.A.R. despatches about 400 cars each week for American points; neither is the C.P.R. able to supply a sufficient number for the demand. | Ottawa Journal 1890-11-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-08-19≥ | A horse owned by Mr. H.F.G. Brading ran away at the Chaudiere Monday night. It crashed into the C.A. Ry. drop gates on Queen street which were down for a train. One gate had about 6 feet smashed off. Half an hour later two drunken men ran into the other gate, smashing it. They narrowly escaped being hit by a train. (As reported by 19 August 1896; the source dates the event only relatively.) | Ottawa Journal 1896-08-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1897-10-26 | A gang of men were at work Sunday, both day and night, putting in a new 'Y' track at the Canada Atlantic Railway crossing at the junction of Queen Street West, Britannia and Duke streets, Chaudiere. The work was rushed through on Sunday, so as not to interfere with traffic yesterday. | Ottawa Journal 1897-10-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-12-13 | A new cabin has been built at the C.A.Ry. crossing at Duke street. It is much larger than the old one and contains a fine stove and is very comfortable. | Ottawa Free Press 1898-12-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-05-12 | It is understood the location of the extension from Stewarton to the Chaudiere has been decided upon and will cross the Richmond Road at a point previously mentioned in the Citizen in close proximity to the branch of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway, thus making one crossing serve for both lines, thereby reducing the danger for accidents from the existence of such necessary evils as railway crossings. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-05-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-10-20 | The C.A.R. company is constructing an office at the Chaudiere to replace the stationary car which is used for that purpose at present. | Ottawa Journal 1899-10-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-03-17 | Mr. Booth has 180 cars in service bringing logs from the McAuley branch which is about 138 miles west of Ottawa. About 75 of these cars are unloaded every 24 hours at the Chaudiere, the employees working day and night. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-03-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-04-27 | The C.A.R. bridge through the lumber yards at the end of Division street was not destroyed, and at about 10 o'clock an engine with several cars attached, passed over it. Passing between two walls of smoke and flame, the cars and engine formed a peculiar silhouette against the red sky. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-04-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-05-05 | The Canada Atlantic damage consists principally in misplaced tracks and the upset condition of its yards at the Chaudiere. The flatcars and lumber loaded on them were removed from the yard as soon as the fire commenced to spread. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-05-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-05-07 | The Canada Atlantic Railway company have almost completed rebuilding the trestle work in the rear of the old Martin, Warnock and Company's mills, which was destroyed in the fire. As soon as the rails have been laid over this trestle the Canada Atlantic will be able to run their trains to the Chaudiere again. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-05-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-05-19 | Mr. J. R. Booth this morning wrote the mayor: 'I beg respectfully to state that owing to my having to give up one-third of my piling ground in the city and the consequent restrictions placed on my lumber operations by the extension of the fire area, I would ask permission to cross Bridge street from the east to the west side with a continuation of one of the tracks of the C.A.R. ... in order that I may be able to remove as much as possible to a distance from the built up portion of the city.' | Ottawa Citizen 1900-05-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-06-02 | The Canada Atlantic railway have not yet decided where they will rebuild their Chaudiere office. The agent is at present stationed in a car. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-06-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-06-16 | City council agrees to let Mr. Booth cross Bridge street. (Ottawa Journal, same date: after Mr. Booth told the Railway and Lighting Committee that without the crossing his mill would have to be removed, 'the committee decided to allow Mr. Booth to cross the street on certain conditions, including that between 6 in the morning and 8 at night, not more than four crossings are made, two trains in and two trains out.') | Ottawa Citizen 1900-06-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1900-06-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-07-04 | The Bridge street crossing is to be held over until the feasibility of the Sherwood street line is reported upon. | Ottawa Journal 1900-07-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-07-18 | City Engineer Galt has prepared for city council a report on the approximate cost etc. of the proposed route along Sherwood street to enable the C.A.R. company to reach Mr. J.H. Booth's mill and to dispense with a level crossing at Bridge street. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-07-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-10-02 | The city council last night gave Mr. Booth permission to lay a level railway track across Bridge Street. CPR had received permission for the same kind of crossings on Wellington Street just prior to Mr. Booth's application. | Ottawa Journal 1900-10-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-11-19 | Conditions on which C.A.R. may cross Bridge street. Churcher's abbreviated entry. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-11-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-12-07 | A gang of men is now engaged building the new crossing on Bridge street, which will give Mr. J.R. Booth direct railway connection with his timber yards. Until the work is completed the street cars will stop on the south side of the crossing. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-12-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1907-10-27 | On October 27, 1907, Ottawa was the scene of an accident in which many people had narrow escapes from death. A street car on the Chaudiere line crashed into a G.T.R. freight train at the Queen street west crossing. The entire vestibule of the car was crushed in, and the car turned across the tracks. It was on its way to the Chaudiere filled with passengers, Motorman Page and Conductor Brisbois in charge. As the car came down the grade nearing the G.T.R. crossing, a long freight train was pulling out of the city; the motorman tried to apply the brakes but they failed to work. Conductor Brisbois ran back and put the brake on at the rear, then shouted for the passengers to jump for their lives. Many sprang through the windows and doors; a middle-aged woman leaving the rear steps was thrown towards the train. Motorman Page jumped just as the car struck the train, an instant before the entire vestibule was crushed in. | Ottawa Citizen 1907-10-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1907-11-23 | Electric car No. 36 is 'sandwiched' between car No. 35 and a Grand Trunk freight train, at Queen Street. A second, distinct crossing accident from the one on 1907-10-27; Churcher's transcription is a bare summary ('See accident file'), no fuller text. | Ottawa Journal 1907-11-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1911-11-23 | A collision occurred yesterday early, when an electric car in charge of Motorman Fournier crashed into a train that was standing on Booth's crossing near Bridge Street. It appears there were no lights on the train, or anything to indicate that the road was blocked. | Ottawa Journal 1911-11-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1913-07-08 | An engine and three flat cars were damaged in a collision between two Grand Trunk Railway shunting trains on the Chaudiere branch near the Wellington street viaduct, at about the dinner hour. Fortunately no injuries were caused, the trainmen jumping clear. One engine was taking cars loaded with green lumber to the Fraserfield yards of the J.R. Booth firm, while the other was bringing back empties, backing with cars in front; due to some cause not yet ascertained, the two trains collided. As it was not a head-on collision and neither was moving at any considerable speed, the damage was confined to the smashing of three flat cars and the demolition of part of one engine, expected to total no more than $1,000. The track was cleared a couple of hours after the accident. | Ottawa Citizen 1913-07-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |