Harry (Hiram) Brown

Person

3 facts

Date	Statement	Source
1886	In 1886, attracted by the possibilities of the then almost-new Canada Atlantic Railway, Harry Brown came to Ottawa. There was no engine opening, so he took a job as a cleaner in the C.P.R. shops; two days later he was taken off that job and put on a freight engine as a fireman. Read from https://sites.google.com/site/canadaatlanticry/people/people-b/harry-hiram-brown	Ottawa Citizen 1931-01-10(https://sites.google.com/site/canadaatlanticry/peo...)
1931≥	Harry Brown had retired as an engineer by 1931. The source, a January 1931 newspaper, speaks of his retirement as already past. Read from https://sites.google.com/site/canadaatlanticry/people/people-b/harry-hiram-brown	Ottawa Citizen 1931-01-10(https://sites.google.com/site/canadaatlanticry/peo...)
	Before coming to Ottawa, Harry Brown began his railway career on a small tank engine of the Rathbun Lumber Co. that ran the roughly mile-and-a-half from Deseronto to the G.T.R. junction, a train that made six trips a day and was worked by a crew of two — an engineer, who also fired, and a conductor, who collected the fares and braked with hand brakes. Background to Brown's career, before the Canada Atlantic; no year given. Read from https://sites.google.com/site/canadaatlanticry/people/people-b/harry-hiram-brown	Ottawa Citizen 1931-01-10(https://sites.google.com/site/canadaatlanticry/peo...)

Locomotive engineer on the Canada Atlantic Railway. "Harry" was the familiar form of his given name, Hiram.