Facts citing this source
| Ref | Date | Subject | Statement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1887-10-01 | 1887-10-01 | Ottawa | J.R. Booth is extending his piling ground in the vicinity of Rochesterville, and a siding is being put into it from the C.A. Ry. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1887', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1887.pdf (rev. Feb-24-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1887-12-01 | 1887-12-01 | Chaudiere Branch | Messrs. J. R. Booth & Co. have completed laying the side tracks through the new piling grounds on the line of the extension of the Canada Atlantic Railway and the grounds are ready for use as soon as the extension is completed. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1887', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1887.pdf (rev. Feb-24-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1888-09-08 | 1888-09-08 | Chaudiere Branch | The Canada Atlantic railway company have at last got their Chaudiere extension into working order. On Saturday September 8th, the first shipment of lumber was made over the new extension: thirty-two cars of lumber from Messrs. J.R. Booth's yards consigned to Messrs. Shepherd and Morse of Burlington. The company have men laying down platforms between the four terminating switches. The idea of extending the tracks across Bridge street into Booth's lumber yards and across on to Victoria island into Messrs. Bronson & Weston's yards has been abandoned until next spring; for the present, lumber for shipment will be loaded at the Crown Acre station. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1888', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1888.pdf (rev. Feb-24-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1888-12-01 | 1888-12-01 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The Canada Atlantic railway seems to be carrying far more lumber from Ottawa this year than any other road. As many as one hundred cars in a day have been shipped by this line. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1888', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1888.pdf (rev. Feb-24-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1888-12-01 | 1888-12-01 | Chaudiere Branch | The Canada Atlantic Railway and the firms of J.R. Booth and Perley & Pattee have workmen engaged laying tracks in new lumber yards on the line of that road, a little over a mile from the mills -- extended almost into the heart of the lumber district, the station being but a few hundred yards from Booth, Perley & Pattee, Bronson & Weston Lumber Co., and Pierce & Co., as well as Barnes & Co's box shook factory. Lumber can now be taken almost directly from the saw to the yards by rail, more cheaply than by wagon, and seasons quicker on the high, open ground than in the overcrowded vicinity of the mills; but for this extension most of the mills would have been obliged to shut down for want of piling room. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1888', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1888.pdf (rev. Feb-24-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1889-03-01 | 1889-01-24 | Rideau Junction | The old George Hurdman farm, east of the Rideau river, along the line of the C.A.R., has been purchased by the Shepherd & Morse Lumber Company, who will forthwith use it as a piling ground; well seasoned lumber will be shipped direct to Boston, Burlington and other American cities. The above firm formerly had their yards in Hull. Repeats the same purchase with more detail: a contract for the entire Canadian lumber receipts to reach Boston via the New York and New England railroad, using Boston wharf property, with shipments on to the River Plate in South America. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1889.pdf (revised April-29-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1889-04-01 | 1889-03-11≤ | Rockland Branch | The Canada Atlantic also has under consideration a scheme to build a branch line from Rockland on the Ottawa River to their main line above Casselman. A report the next day says they 'may also construct a line from Rockland to Casselman, during the summer, to catch the lumber trade from that point.' Repeats, nearly verbatim, that 'The Canada Atlantic Railway Company contemplate constructing a line from Rockland to Casselman during the summer, to catch the lumber trade from that point.' Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1889', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1889.pdf (file revised April-29-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1889-08-01 | 1889-08-01 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | Messrs. R. Hurdman & Co., and the Bronson & Weston Lumber Co. ship thirty cars of green lumber daily to the Shepherd & Morse Co.'s yards situated on the Hurdman property across the Rideau. The lumber thus shipped is principally stock for the export trade. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1889', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1889.pdf (file revised April-29-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1890-05-01 | 1890-04-16 | Chaudiere | 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. Repeats: 'Now that the car famine has terminated, over one hundred cars of lumber a day are being loaded and despatched from the Chaudiere over the C.A.R.' Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1890', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1890.pdf (file revised January-24-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1891-05-01 | 1891-05-01≤ | Hawkesbury Branch | Vankleek Hill is in high glee over news that the Central Counties Railway Company expect to have the line from Glen Robertson to the village completed by November next; it is expected to connect at Coteau with the American system, enabling lumber dealers to ship at any season to Boston, New York and other US cities. The company has a bonus of $15,000 from the municipality of West Hawkesbury, and a number of smaller bonuses from farmers along the line. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1891', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1891.pdf (file revised August-08-23). Original issue not seen. |
| 1891-07-01 | 1891-07-01 | Chaudiere Branch | The Export Lumber Co. have built a track from the Chaudiere branch of the C.A.R. on the line between their piling grounds and those of J.R. Booth. A customer siding built from the Chaudiere branch; no entity exists for the Export Lumber Co. itself. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1891', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1891.pdf (file revised August-08-23). Original issue not seen. |
| 1893-01-01 | 1892-12-21 | The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company | Ottawa people showed appreciative interest in the building of the Parry Sound Colonization Railway (owned by Mr. J.R. Booth, the terminal end of the Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway): a meeting held on December 21, 1892 found citizens strongly in favour of giving Booth a bonus. Some twenty-five miles of the road had been completed west of Emsdale, where it crossed the North Bar branch of the Grand Trunk, and were in running order. A large number of men were in the woods cutting the next season's log supply for Georgian Bay mills (one firm alone with 400 men in camp); lumber from these logs was then shipped mainly by barge to the United States via Georgian Bay, Lake Erie and Tonawanda, but was expected to switch to the all-rail route via Ottawa and Albany once the Parry Sound road was completed. Four or five small villages had sprung up along the line, with several small sawmills under construction, and large quantities of bark, ties, pulpwood, cordwood and hardwood logs were being hauled for shipment. Reporting a meeting held "on 21st inst.", i.e. December 21, 1892, relative to the article's own dateline. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1893', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1893.pdf (file revised December-12-23). Original issue not seen. |
| 1893-01-01 | 1892-12-30 | Rideau Junction | A sad accident occurred at Shepherd & Morse's lumber yard, Ottawa, on December 30, 1892: Thomas Hurdman, aged 21, son of Mr. George Hurdman, was instantly killed, and William Ascher, aged 16, was severely injured, when the shunting engine, through some mistake, struck a train of loaded box cars heavily while the two young men were checking lumber in a box car for shipment to the United States, throwing the piled lumber on them. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1893', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1893.pdf (file revised December-12-23). Original issue not seen. |
| 1893-02-01 | 1893-02-01 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The relatives of Thomas F. Hurdman, who had been killed in a lumber car a few weeks earlier, were to enter suit for damages against the Canada Atlantic Railway Company in the sum of $10,000. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1893', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1893.pdf (file revised December-12-23). Original issue not seen. |
| 1893-08-01 | 1893-06-29 | Hawkesbury Branch | The Central Counties Railway had moved 21,000,000 feet of lumber from Hawkesbury to Glen Robertson (for onward shipment by the Canada Atlantic railway) during the preceding six to eight months, comprising almost half of the Hawkesbury Lumber Company's previous year's cut; the rest of the cut was shipped by boat. Large quantities of every kind of freight were being moved on the Central Counties Ry., and the management was gratified at the results achieved since the road opened. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1893', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1893.pdf (file revised December-12-23). Original issue not seen. |
| 1894-09-01 | 1894-08-14 | Middle Subdivision | Four car loads of horses and one hundred men passed up the O.A. & P.S. Ry. this morning for the St. Anthony Lumber Co.'s limits beyond Barrys Bay. It was this company that bought the old Perley limits in this locality and this is the first season that the company will work them. The company are erecting a sawmill about sixty miles beyond Killaloe where their logs will be cut and the lumber shipped over the O.A. & P.S. Ry. and C.A.R. to the States. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1894', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1894.pdf (file revised February-25-24). Original issue not seen. A later reprint of the same report, describing the cars/men as having 'recently passed up' the line. |
| 1894-12-01 | 1894-12-01 | Whitney | E.C. Whitney's saw mill at Long Lake, on the Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway, is nearing completion. The building is erected and ready for the machinery, which will be put in on completion of the railway to that point. 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. |
| 1895-10-01 | 1895-10-01 | Whitney | The St. Anthony Lumber Company which has recently constructed large steam mills at Whitney on the line of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound, have started work. The mill proper is 207 feet long by 80 feet wide, with shingle and lath mill attached 48x50 feet and storing shed 32x270 feet. The capacity is 250,000 feet a day, supplied by three band saws and one gang saw. Motive power is a Corliss engine of 700 horse power. Sawdust belts carry a continuous supply of sawdust to the furnace. 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. |
| 1902-06-01 | 1902-06-01 | Whitney | The St. Anthony Lumber Company are building a railway from Whitney to Big Opeongo lake, a distance of fifteen miles. The work is in the hands of Thomas McLaughlin, contractor of Ottawa. 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). Original issue not seen. |
| 1903-02-01 | 1903-02-01 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The Canadian Atlantic Railway Company proposes to extend its road from Whitney to Sault Ste. Marie. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1903', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1903.pdf (file revised February-15-24). Original issue not seen. |