Facts citing this source
| Ref | Date | Subject | Statement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1894-11-30 | 1894-11-18 | Middle Subdivision | Ten miles of the O.A. & P.S. railway between Barry's Bay and the Opeongo Forks passed under Government inspection on Monday. Mr. Lynch, government engineer, made a thorough examination of this new portion of the road and found everything satisfactory. The rails have been laid for a distance of twelve miles beyond the point of inspection. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1894.pdf (revised February-25-24). Original not seen. Near-identical wording. |
| 1894-12-14 | 1894-11-30 | Middle Subdivision | Work on the O.A. & P.S.R. This week the season's work on the O.A. & P.S. railway will reach an end. The line will then be completed to Long Lake, a distance of 144 miles from Ottawa, leaving only 60 miles to be built next season to complete the line to Parry Sound. Rails are now laid to 149 miles from Ottawa. By the end of the week the fifteen hundred men who are still engaged on the work will be discharged. More than two thousand men were employed all season on the work. The trains coming eastward are to be seen crowded every day with returning laborers, principally Italians. During the winter nothing will be done besides survey work. One party has now set out from Long Lake and another from Elmsdale, at the western end of the line, to rectify the hurried survey made during the summer of the sixty miles of the line unconstructed. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1894.pdf (revised February-25-24). Original not seen. Attributed by the Forester to the Renfrew Mercury; near-identical wording, gives 147 rather than 149 miles completed. |
| 1895-10-18 | 1895-10-18 | Western Subdivision | Work on the railway is being pushed along as fast as circumstances will warrant. The rock cutting is almost completed, and teams are now busy lowering the swamp near the Rose Point Hotel, which has to be taken down some thirteen feet. Filling up Willet's lake has been abandoned and workmen are now engaged in driving piles for a bridge across the lake. At the other end of the section the gravel train is busy ballasting and this part of the work will be pushed forward as rapidly as possible. Several times lately the sound of the locomotive whistle has been heard in town, giving Parry Sound notice that the long looked for railway is almost at its door. Last week Post Office Inspector Jones arranged for the dispatch of daily mails over the Parry Sound Railway between Parry Sound and Emsdale, Sprucedale and Seguin. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1895.pdf (revised February-25-24). Original not seen. Attributed to the Parry Sound Star. |
| 1895-11-01 | 1895-10-25 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | A moose bull attacked two members of the Parry Sound Rail Road a week or so ago. One man was successful in reaching the branches of a tree, but the other was less fortunate and was thrown by the bull some twenty feet; the moose made a second charge, but the bruised and sore man managed to make it to a tree. The next day, they secured a rifle, started in pursuit, and found the moose not far from the previous day's attack; as soon as the moose saw them it charged, but was brought down by the first shot. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1895.pdf (revised February-25-24). Original not seen. |
| 1895-11-08 | 1895-11-01 | Western Subdivision | The season's operations on the OA & PS Ry. are at an end. The force of men employed on the construction all summer have been laid off. All the camps are empty with the exception of a few straggling ones that house a small party of men that remain to finish the ballasting. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1895.pdf (revised February-25-24). Original not seen. |
| 1896-02-26 | 1896-01-24 | Western Subdivision | Mr. E. Fauquier, of Toronto, has been given the contract of constructing the incompleted 47 miles of the Parry Sound Railway. The uncompleted portion lies between Lake of the Two Rivers of the eastern line and Scotia station of the western line. Work will be commenced early, as Mr. Booth is anxious to have the line completed by the fall. (The Huntsville Forester of 26 February adds that the contract 'was let to E. F. Fauquier of Toronto, at a figure close to half a million dollars.') Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1896', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1896.pdf (file revised February-23-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1896-10-09 | 1896-10-09 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The first through freight train passed through Arnprior today. It had thirty-five cars from Parry Sound to Ottawa. The line needs much ballasting. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1896', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1896.pdf (file revised February-23-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1896-10-09 | 1896-10-09 | Depot Harbor Grain Elevator | A gang has been sent up the line to build the grain elevators. Two will be built, with a million bushel capacity, to be completed by the spring of 1897. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1896', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1896.pdf (file revised February-23-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1896-12-18 | 1896-12-18 | John Rudolphus Booth | Booth declined a citizens' testimonial marking the completion of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway. He considered the railway only the beginning of the larger enterprise of connecting the west with the east, and anticipated elevator construction and the acquisition of a steamship fleet as the next steps in the scheme. |
| 1898-11-04 | 1898-11-04 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | During the season of navigation now closed the Ottawa and Parry Sound railway has carried twelve million bushels of grain and one hundred thousand tons of flour, glucose, pork, etc., from Parry Sound via Ottawa and its eastern connections. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1898', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1898.pdf (file revised January-05-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1898-12-19 | 1897 | Unidentified Freight Cars | Last year the Ottawa and Parry Sound railway company purchased 500 freight cars. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1898', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1898.pdf (file revised January-05-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1898-12-19 | 1898 | Unidentified Freight Cars | Last spring it had to rent 500 more to move the grain from Chicago and Duluth. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1898', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1898.pdf (file revised January-05-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1898-12-19 | 1898-12-19 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | During the past summer the same railway had 85 engines in commission, most of them large moguls, and from twelve to twenty trains passed eastward over the road every day. More remarkable still, the west-bound freight business from New York to Chicago over the Parry Sound route went as high as $25,000 a month. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1898', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1898.pdf (file revised January-05-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1902-02-07 | 1902-02-07 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | A BIG R.R. DEAL: NEW YORK CENTRAL MANAGEMENT HAS ACQUIRED THE CAR AND MAY CONSTRUCT A TRANSCONTINENTAL LINE. All that remains to be done in the purchase of the Canada Atlantic Railway by the New York Central interests is the paying over of the cash, said Dr. Webb. The New York Central, the Rutland, and the Canada Atlantic will be practically one road. A fleet of eight vessels now plying between Ogdensburg and Chicago will be taken off, and in future will ply between Duluth, Chicago, and Depot Harbor. The rolling stock of the CAR will be increased by 1,000 boxcars and a number of locomotives, heavier rails will be laid, and a new grain elevator of 2,500,000 bushels capacity will be built at Depot Harbor, with elevators also at Quebec and Sorel. One of the leading officials of the CAR pointed out that the line will in all probability be extended from Parry Sound to Sudbury, the charter for which is now held by Messrs. Mackenzie & Mann. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1902', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1902.pdf (file revised June-01-24), a special Ottawa dispatch. Original issue not seen. |
| 1902-06-06 | 1902-06-06 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | CANADA ATLANTIC NOT SOLD. The negotiations for the purchase of the Canada Atlantic Railway by Dr. Seward Webb have practically come to nothing. This was the day upon which the option expired, and Mr. J.R. Booth stated that to all intents and purposes the deal is off. 'I have heard nothing from Dr. Webb or those connected with him directly, and I would assume that if they intended to carry out the bargain involving such a large amount they would have communicated with me before this.' Asked if he would extend the option, Booth replied: 'No, I won't do that, for the reason that the financial standing of the parties on the other side is not the same now as when the option was taken.' Mackenzie & Mann were in conference with Mr. Booth on Saturday, but he denies any negotiations with them are afoot. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1902', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1902.pdf (file revised June-01-24), an Ottawa despatch. Original issue not seen. |