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| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
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| 1886-11-09 | Canada Atlantic builder. Presented with a Farewell Address from Employees of the Road. A large number of employees of the Canada Atlantic Railway assembled in the parlour of the Russell to take part in a presentation of a farewell address to Mr. D.C. Linsley, the contractor for the road who handed it over to the company on the 1st September last. The address, presented by Mr. W.R. Hibbard, general agent, read in part: 'We feel it is to your experience, ability and sound judgment that this important line is indebted for its present standing as a first class railway, fitted by its location, construction and gradients to maintain a leading position among the railways of America, both as to the speed of its trains and excellent character of its road bed.' It was signed on behalf of the employees by W. R. Hibbard, general agent; M. Donaldson [Meek?], superintendent; Geo. A. Mountain, resident engineer; G.W. Lampman, resident engineer; James King, agent of construction; Geo. J. Root, assistant engineer; J. E. Duval, superintendent telegraph; T.D.R.K. Claire, agent; J. McMullen, manager's secretary; A.A. Dion, cashier; Alf. T. Gow, chief clerk audit offices; and B.C. Waite, fuel agent, dated Sept. 1st, 1886. In reply, Linsley noted it was 40 years since he first swung an axe with an engineering party, and congratulated the company on the appointment of his successor, M. E. J. Chamberlain. | Ottawa Citizen 1886-11-10(The 1886-11-10 issue reports the presentation took...) |