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| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1893-06-20≥ | By June 20, 1893, a train of freight cars, partly loaded with lumber, had dashed into the passenger swing bridge over the canal at Ottawa East; one car was badly wrecked and the bridge considerably damaged, after a barge hand attempting to take the train down the grade to the dock to load the lumber could not work the brakes right. Repairs to the Ottawa East ("Archville") bridge were commenced on June 22, the delay being due to the non-arrival of suitable timber. The transcriber presumes this refers to the passenger bridge over the canal north of the railway bridge. | Ottawa Journal 1893-06-20(Accident "yesterday". Transcribed by Colin J. Chur...),Ottawa Journal 1893-06-22(Repairs commenced. Transcribed by Colin J. Churche...) | |
| 1893-07-27 | The C.A.R. authorities commenced work on July 4 on the Archville bridge, injured about two weeks earlier by a runaway train; by July 27 the bridge was being fixed up and given a coat of paint. | Ottawa Journal 1893-07-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1893-07-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1894-10-27 | DANGEROUS PLAY. BOYS UN-BRAKE CARS ON THE C. A. R. AND CAUSE A RUNAWAY. The charge will be that they set loose a number of freight cars on a down grade on the Canada Atlantic railway in Ottawa East and thereby might have caused a smash-up. The cars were set loose Wednesday evening. There are several tracks in the portion of the C. A. R. yard in Ottawa East and quite a number of the boys of the village have been in the habit of playing on and around them. Some of the boys loosened the brakes of several of the cars on the side track. There is a heavy grade on this part of the line and the cars sped away in the Montreal direction. They broke through a safety appliance designed to prevent them getting on to the main track, and tore down the line; a couple of them jumped the track further down. Yard hands discovered the occurrence in time to prevent any accidents. The Canada Atlantic authorities placed the matter in the hands of Detective Flanagan. | Ottawa Journal 1894-10-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1895-08-22 | Workmen of the C.A.R. and O.A. & P.S. railway companies were engaged yesterday in staking out the site of the proposed new round house in connection with the car shops in Ottawa East. It will be erected on the former site of Mr. W.S. Odell's brickyard. The companies have also diverted the junction of Second street and Hurdman's Road. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-08-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-08-22≥ | Yesterday the employees of the Canada Atlantic and Parry Sound lines were at work placing stakes for the new round house which will be erected near the new car shops. The site is on the ground formerly used as Odell's brick yard. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-08-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-08-29 | The new trestle within the "y" west of Archville, where the new car shops are to be located, is now half built. | Ottawa Journal 1895-08-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-09-20 | The building of the O.A. & P.S. workshops in the "Y" beyond Archville are to begin without delay. Within a few weeks the foundations of the massive buildings will be laid; the plans have been ready for months. There will be two large workshops and a roundhouse, entirely of stone with steel roofing supported by immense steel stringers now being manufactured in Germany, making the shops almost fireproof. The workshops will each be about 60 feet wide and 130 feet long, and will give employment to about 150 men. The roundhouse will be located near the intersection of the two branches of the "Y" and will be large enough to house about thirty locomotives. The site for the workshops and roundhouse is already picketed out. | Ottawa Journal 1895-09-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-10-03≤ | Work on the round house at Ottawa East is to be started at once. It will be built on the "Y" nearest the village. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-10-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-10-09 | The work of filling up the land where the proposed car sheds of the C.A.R. are to be built in Ottawa East is proceeding rapidly. In a few days the site of the round house will be finished and the building itself commenced. | Ottawa Journal 1895-10-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-10-31 | The work of filling in the "Y" beyond Ottawa East is taking more time than was at first expected and it is doubtful if the construction of the O.A. & P.S. Ry roundhouse will be begun this fall. | Ottawa Journal 1895-10-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1898-10-15 | The Ottawa East Council last night decided to write to Mr. J.R. Booth asking him to meet the council on a suitable date to arrange for a way for foot passengers across the tracks at the Deep Cut and to rectify the condition of the bridge at the head of Nicholas Street. As the matters are now the Ottawa East people are practically prevented from crossing the tracks and are thus greatly inconvenienced and the planks in the bridge are not in too safe a state. Superintendent promised to have the whistles abated. | Ottawa Journal 1898-10-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-11-22 | The work of ballasting the C.A.R. yards is completed and a number of men are employed sinking four new underground drains. A new signal house is being erected for the accommodation of the switchmen for the winter. Place not named; the item is about the Canada Atlantic yards and shops at Ottawa East / Deep Cut, filed on Ottawa East. | Ottawa Free Press 1898-11-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-01-07 | Wm. Cowan, County treasurer, 74 years of age, and Holmes Cowan, his son, 48 years of age, were this morning instantly killed at the O.A. & P.S. Ry. crossing on Main street, Ottawa East. The coachman Nathaniel Dumas [sic; Napoleon Dumais], 36 years of age, was also killed. ... The team dashed into the train striking between the tender of the engine and the baggage car. Mr. Cowan senior, was thrown violently against the corner of the baggage car. His skull was split and he died instantly. ... 'No. 50 O., A. & P.S. train left Central depot at 8.30 for Parry Sound engine 609, Engineer H. Brown, Conductor T. Brackens.' (Ottawa Citizen: the coachman survived the initial crash, badly injured, and gave the driver's name as Napoleon Dumais.) Papers differ on the coachman's fate that day (Journal: killed; Citizen: fatally injured, died later) and on his surname (Dumas/Dumais). Engine number given as 609 (Journal) and 600 (Citizen). | Ottawa Journal 1899-01-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1899-01-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-01-10 | It is expected that the fatal accident at Main Street crossing in Ottawa East will result in the installation of gates at the crossing. Mr. N. G. Roche, the reeve of Ottawa East ... stated that the Canada Atlantic Railway company should immediately place gates at the crossing. ... The Inquest upon the remains of the late Messrs. Wm. and Holmes T. Cowan ... was resumed at Rogers' morgue last evening, but again adjourned till Friday for further evidence. ... The evidence was in effect the same as that already published. | Ottawa Journal 1899-01-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-01-10 | Charles Armstrong, yardmaster of the C.A.R., Ottawa was run over by an engine last Wednesday and died a few hours later in St. Luke's hospital. (Ottawa Journal, 8 February: he 'was run over by a shunter at the semaphore near the Deep Cut at 6 o'clock this morning. Died.') The Almonte Gazette (10 January) and the Ottawa Journal (8 February) appear to describe the same yardmaster's death by shunting engine, but give different dates (last Wednesday before 10 Jan, versus 8 Feb 'this morning'); both are recorded as the sources disagree on when it happened and it may be two separate incidents. | Almonte Gazette 1899-01-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1899-02-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-01-14 | The adjourned inquest into the death of the late William Cowan and Holmes T. Cowan was resumed last night before Coroner Freeland at Rogers undertaking establishment. The first witness called was Thomas Donoghue ... He said he saw Cowan's team coming down Main street. The horses were at a trot opposite Fourth street. ... The flagman was about seven or ten feet from the rail at the middle of Main street. ... The inquest was adjourned till the night of Wednesday next week. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-01-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-01-19 | A verdict of accidental death was brought in by the jury last evening at the inquiry into the death of the late William and Holmes T. Cowan. ... the jury also recommended that the proper authorities should be compelled to erect a fence on the line between the railway property and Fifth street westward and also that the proper authorities should be compelled to have gates placed at the Main street crossing in Ottawa East. The Citizen prints the jury's verdict in full, dated to the collision of 7 January 1899 at about 8.30 a.m. | Ottawa Journal 1899-01-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1899-01-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-01-24 | Mr. William H. Young, representing the Union Switch and Signal Company of Swissvale Pa. is in the city in connection with the interlocking switch system which is to be put in at the junction of the railway lines at the Deep Cut. ... Mr. Young says his company will have the interlocking system in place by May 31st, and work will be begun in April. No structure entity for the interlocking-switch signal building; filed on Ottawa East, the location of the Deep Cut junction. | Ottawa Journal 1899-01-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-01-25 | A new switching plant will shortly be placed at Ottawa East where the New York and Ottawa, C.P.R. and C.A.R. cross before entering the Central Depot. Mr. W. Young, agent for the Union Signal & Switch company, was in the city yesterday making arrangements for the immediate erection of the new plant. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-01-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-01-30 | Dumais, the coachman who was injured in the Cowan fatality is now insane and it is feared he will never recover his mind. He has become violent and has to be watched night and day. His hand was amputated and the arm is not healing up as well as it should owing to Dumais' actions. ... He is confined in one of the private wards of the Protestant Hospital but his cries at times can be heard throughout the wing of the building. | Ottawa Journal 1899-01-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-03-21 | Mr. Booth wrote asking permission to erect poles on Sherwood street, from Oregon street south to the aqueduct on the Canada Atlantic railway track. He is building an electric line on the C.A.R. and O.A. & P.S. railways, from the Chaudiere to the workshops of the company. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-03-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-06-26 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Co. has completed the spur line into the new sand pit purchased lately near Hawthorne and will soon commence to haul sand to the city to grade up the grounds surrounding the shops in Ottawa East to give more yard room there. The pit is about eight miles from the city. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-06-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-08-26 | The work of extending the yards in Ottawa East is progressing rapidly. The steam shovel is now at work levelling and filling at the east of the village, and as soon as this work is finished a couple of new tracks will be laid. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-08-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-09-01 | The Ottawa East railway yards are the scene of great activity these days. Two trains are steadily engaged hauling gravel to fill in the Rideau ravine where the new works will be situated. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-09-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-09-02 | The CAR authorities have decided to erect a new building at the Rideau roundhouse for the general stores, mechanical draughting and instruction offices. Most located in the offices near the old Elgin Street station. Eight new engines to be used for the grain traffic have arrived at the Rideau roundhouse. Announcement of a planned new stores/instruction building at the roundhouse; see the held missing-entity note. Filed on Elgin Street for the offices being vacated there. | Ottawa Journal 1899-09-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-10-14 | The filling in of the big ravine in the Rideau yards of the C.A.R. is now just about completed. The filling in of this patch of waste land increases the area of the yards by about 40 acres, as before the work was done the land was too low and swampy to be of any value. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-10-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-10-21 | Work continues to boom at the C. A. R. Locomotive repair shop. This week engines Nos. 629, 653, and 695, which have been undergoing repairs, were turned out of the shops ready for service again. ... At the C. A. R. car shops work on the new freight cars is progressing rapidly. Four and five cars of modern pattern are turned out each day. ... All the cars in use on the road will be hereafter built at the local works. ... In about two month's time the large addition being built to the C. A. R. round houses will be completed ready for occupation. When completed the shops will be 275 feet in diameter and 860 feet in circumference. The necessary piles have been sunk for the foundation work of the new office and store buildings. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-10-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-10-28 | At the yards, the work is almost finished, the ground now being almost level, and the additional tracks have been laid. The filling in is complete. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-10-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-12-13 | With a terrific crash a massive iron chimney fell from the roof of a new boiler house just constructed by the C.A.R. company near Maria street bridge, at about a quarter past one o'clock today, tearing away a part of the building and smashing the derrick and other apparatus. ... Fortunately no one was hurt in the accident. (Ottawa Free Press, 14 December: the pipe 'was promptly removed from where it fell to the factory to be straightened out and repaired.') The boiler house near Maria street bridge has no site entity; filed on Elgin Street as the nearest works location. Facilities named: 'bridge' (Maria Street). | Ottawa Free Press 1899-12-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1899-12-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-01-29 | John Thomas Miles, a brakeman employed in the yard of the Canada Atlantic railway, was the victim of a horrible accident yesterday morning, resulting in his instantaneous death. ... In company with Paul Brennan, yard foreman, and a number of the yardmen, Miles was engaged in shunting cars on the siding a short distance north of the Maria street bridge. The train was backing up, and he was the hind brakeman. No one saw the accident, but after giving the signal, it is supposed, that Miles attempted to board the car, missed his footing and fell. He was crushed to death. (Ottawa Journal: names him John T. Myles, and gives the scene as 'near the coal chutes at the head of Nicholas street'.) The Citizen names him John Thomas Miles, of Venosta; the Journal spells the surname Myles throughout. Filed on Ottawa East as the yard location. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-01-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1900-01-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-01-31 | The jury empanelled to inquire into the death of John T. Myles, the brakeman who was killed in the Canada Atlantic railway yard Sunday morning by being run over by a shunting engine and cars, brought in a verdict last night to the effect that the death was accidental. They recommended also that in future, only one man, the conductor, standing nearest the engine, be empowered to give the signals. | Ottawa Journal 1900-01-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1900-01-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-05-16 | The new building that is being constructed by the C.A.R. near the roundhouse is just about completed. It will be a great convenience and a source of pleasure to the workmen as it will contain reading, smoking and dining rooms and will be provided with baths. Its twelve rooms or so will be heated with hot air ... The rooms on the ground floor are very spacious and will likely be used for storing purposes. This is likely the Stores and Instruction Building recorded under construction through late 1899. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-05-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-10-06 | The old store sheds at Maria street, which were destroyed by fire some time ago, are being rebuilt. The yards at Maria street are also being enlarged, the steam shovel being engaged cutting down the bank. No entity for these store sheds; filed on Elgin Street. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-10-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1901-05-28 | George Ritchie of Ottawa East, a Canada Atlantic railway man, sustained a fractured skull and other serious, probably fatal injuries in the Canada Atlantic yard at Ottawa East yesterday morning. He was on his way to work at the time, and it is supposed he was struck by a train. He was found lying beside the tracks. | Kemptville Telegram 1901-05-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1902-02-06 | BOY KILLED ON C.A.R. Otto Schroeder, a 19-year-old lad, was one of a gang engaged clearing snow from the C.A.R. tracks at Ottawa East. The snow was being removed on flat cars and Schroeder took up a position on the end of the last car of the train. A slight jolt when the train was being stopped threw him off his balance. He fell across a rail and the wheels of one truck passed across his abdomen. A fellow workman, Paul Rousseau, seized him and pulled him aside before further injuries were inflicted. Schroeder was taken to Ottawa East, but died before medical aid could be summoned. | Ottawa Citizen 1902-02-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1902-02-07(Corroborating report: Schroeder, one of forty-eigh...) | |
| 1902-02-08 | The Schroeder Inquest. The coroner's jury verdict: 'We, the jurors find that Otto Schroeder came to his death by accidentally falling from a snow train at Ottawa East on the 6th day of February, 1902. Orders appear to be given but not strictly enforced, consequently often disregarded... We don't consider that there was adequate accommodation for safety provided and that there should be a remedy provided in this respect by the railway company.' Mr. Donaldson, superintendent of the C.A.R. system, testified that the floor of one of the snow cars was about nine feet wide. The C.A.R. was represented at the inquest by Lawyer Bethune and Mr. Morley Donaldson, superintendent. | Ottawa Journal 1902-02-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1902-02-08(Fuller report of the same inquest and verdict. Tra...) | |
| 1906-11-30 | JUMPED THE TRACK. Seven Freight Cars Gave Some Work to Railroaders. Seven G.T.R. freight cars, four of which were loaded with lumber, were derailed at Ottawa East, near Ballantyne's coal chute. The train, which was just pulling out from Stewarton lumber yards, was crossing a switch when one of the foremost cars was derailed by the track moving. Seven cars were off the track, two of which, loaded with heavy plank, sank into the earth. The unloaded cars were quickly replaced on the rails, but the loaded ones had to be unloaded before they could be replaced. The tracks were cleared sufficiently to allow the regular 11 o'clock train to pass. Dated to the morning before the 1906-12-01 issue that reported it. | Ottawa Citizen 1906-12-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1912-05-27 | The Ottawa Gas Company have decided to build an auxiliary plant in Ottawa East. Mr. Thomas Ahearn, president of the company, has bought eight and one half acres of land on Lees Avenue, close to the civic incinerator site, and intends to commence immediately on the erection of the plant. The property is close to the Grand Trunk Railway and a siding will be put into the works, enabling coal to be supplied at minimum expense. | Ottawa Journal 1912-05-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1912-07-16 | The gas plant is likely to be removed from King Edward avenue to Lees avenue, provided an agreement can be reached with the G.T.R. regarding a siding. | Ottawa Journal 1912-07-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1939-01-06 | Three of eight reinforced concrete slabs, each weighing 127 tons and 79 feet long, were hoisted "into place over the Nicholas street subway early this afternoon", by two wrecking trains of the Canadian National Railways; the slabs were made at the C.N.R. roundhouse in Ottawa. Ross-Meagher Limited were contractors for the slabs and the bridge, at about $110,000 under a relief labour project. "Three tracks cross the bridge, two of the C.N.R. and one of the C.P.R."; the finished subway would have a roadway clearance of 66 feet. Filed on Ottawa East at the operator's direction; the item names the Nicholas Street subway. | Ottawa Citizen 1939-01-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1943-08-26≥ | By 26 August 1943 (the issue date), the paper reported: President Franklin D. Roosevelt "left Ottawa last night as unobtrusively as he arrived": after an evening meal at Laurier House he "left for the Nicholas street siding, where he boarded a special train." Filed on Ottawa East at the operator's direction for the Nicholas Street siding. | Ottawa Citizen 1943-08-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1947-06-23≥ | By 23 June 1947 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Five CNR trains took on passengers in Ottawa East where a platform had been built", easing the outward movement of Marian Congress pilgrims from Ottawa, alongside 18 C.P.R. trains from the Broad street yards. Filed on Ottawa East, the place the item names. | Ottawa Journal 1947-06-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1957-01-29≥ | By 29 January 1957 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Suppertime traffic passing through Ottawa East was tied up for more than 30 minutes late yesterday afternoon when the crack CNR transcontinental flyer stalled on the tracks across Main Street and Echo Drive": the brakes of the diesel locomotive seized up as the Montreal-bound train was crossing the two streets, at 3.22 p.m.; an emergency crew repaired them by 3.46. | Ottawa Citizen 1957-01-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1958-01-27≥ | By 27 January 1958 (the issue date), the paper reported: Achille Laramee, 54, "was instantly killed at 4.20 p.m. Saturday when struck by a shunting train at the CNR yards near the Ottawa East round house", as a C.N.R. diesel, driven by Phillip Button, pushed two dayliner coaches from the yard; employees riding in front of the first coach called a warning and the bell was sounding. | Ottawa Citizen 1958-01-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
Notes
Location between the two Rideau Bridges. Milepost is approximate