Facts citing this source
| Ref | Date | Subject | Statement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1896-02-01 | 1895-11-15 | Clarence Creek | On November 15th notices written in French were posted in Rockland and Clarence Creek stations to the effect that unless certain debts which were owed by the Central Counties Railway were paid at once, all trains would be liable to be wrecked without further notice. 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. |
| 1896-02-01 | 1896-01-31≥ | Clarence Creek | Three men were arrested near Clarence Creek on the Canada Atlantic Railway, charged with systematically attempting to wreck Canada Atlantic trains: 'detective Carter has been working on the case and yesterday arrested Fabien Lavictrie and two brothers who live on a farm near the scene of the attempted wrecks.' They were held at L'Orignal awaiting trial. (As reported by 31 January 1896; the source dates the event only relatively.) 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. |
| 1896-07-30 | 1896-07-29 | Madawaska | Seven hundred acres of land have been purchased by the Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway at Madawaska, which place the company have chosen as the divisional point of the line between Ottawa and Parry Sound. The land was purchased from the Ontario Government, and is to be largely utilized for workshops, round houses, offices, station buildings and sidings, and what is not used for this purpose will be divided into village lots. Madawaska is 133 miles distant from Ottawa, and exactly half way between Ottawa and Parry Sound. 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. |
| 1896-08-11 | 1896-08-11≥ | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company | The camp of the engineering staff of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, at Burit Lake, at upper end of the road, was destroyed by fire a few days ago. The men went out to their work as usual in the morning, and returning found their camp in ashes. All their clothing, as well as a considerable amount of money they had laid by, was burned. (As reported by 11 August 1896; the source dates the event only relatively.) 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. |
| 1896-11-16 | 1896-11-16≥ | Ottawa Central Station | Charles Fagan, policeman at the Canada Atlantic Station here, was caught last night by Detective Flanagan in the act of robbing the till in the ticket seller's office in the station and arrested. For several months past small sums, varying from twenty-five cents to two or three dollars, have been missed from the till, the robberies always taking place in the evening after the station was closed and the policeman off duty. (Almonte Gazette, 20 Nov: he 'was caught on Monday last in the act of stealing cash from the till at the station.') (As reported by 16 November 1896.) (As reported by 16 November 1896; the source dates the event only relatively.) 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. |
| 1896-11-17 | 1896-11-17 | Ottawa Central Station | Charles Fagan, the Canada Atlantic policeman who was arrested on Saturday night by Detective Flannagan while tapping the till in the ticket office in the railway station, was before the Police Magistrate O'Gara this morning and the case was remanded until tomorrow. 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. |
| 1896-11-18 | 1896-11-18 | Ottawa Central Station | Charles M. Fagan, who was caught in the act of robbing the till at the C.A.R. Station on Saturday, was today sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment in the Central Prison. 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. |
| 1898-03-22 | 1898-03-21≥ | Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #627 | The Canada Atlantic express from Ottawa, due here at 10.15 p.m., steamed into the Bonaventure station last evening with the locomotive head light, the steam gauge and the postal, baggage and express car brilliantly lighted with acetylene gas. ... Locomotive No. 26, in charge of Engineer Robert Orr, had only two hours in the Ottawa yard to be prepared for the trip. ... the first express train locomotive with an acetylene gas headlight in America. ... Under the new system, invented by Mr. Andrew Holland, of Holland Bros.; Senate reporters, the gas is generated under low pressure ... Mr. Armstrong, controller of railway mail service, readily gave permission to the Canada Atlantic Railway Company to try the experiment in the postal car. (As reported by 21 March 1898; the source dates the event only relatively.) 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. |
| 1907-11-15 | 1907-11-13 | Saint Polycarpe Junction | The coroner's jury decided to acquit Engineer Rudolphe Vallee of criminal responsibility in connection with the ballast train collision at St. Polycarpe in which Fireman Pope, of Montreal, was killed. Vallee explained that his engine was going tender first; his lamps had been giving him trouble, having gone out several times between Coteau and St. Polycarpe, causing him to lose his bearings, and, along with anxiety over his gauge indicating low water, he missed the switch, and a collision was inevitable before he realized what had occurred. This frank statement was largely responsible for the jury's decision to excuse him. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1907', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1907.pdf (file revised February-24-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1913-03-11 | 1913-03-10 | Casselman | The Ottawa-Montreal train on the Grand Trunk Railway, due at Montreal's Bonaventure Station at 11:15 p.m., was derailed at about nine o'clock Monday night half a mile this side of Casselman, about thirty miles from Ottawa. The train, composed of three passenger coaches and a baggage car, left Ottawa at 8 o'clock and, running on schedule, had got half a mile out of Casselman when, from a cause not yet determined, the engine jumped the rails, pulling the coaches with it; two of the coaches turned over on their side, fortunately without loss of life. The only person injured was Mrs. Donald Campbell of Maxville, who was badly shaken. A relief train was despatched from Ottawa, and the Montreal-bound train returned to Montreal carrying the transferred passengers instead of proceeding, the single track making further progress impossible. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1913', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1913.pdf (file revised April-27-24), tagged 'Alexandria', at 'Casselman'. Original issue not seen. |
| 1915-07-15 | 1915-07-14 | Alexandria Depot | The Grand Trunk station and restaurant at Alexandria, thirty-year-old structures as dry as tinder, were destroyed by fire this afternoon; by the time the brigade reached the scene the fire was already beyond control. The spread of the blaze was prevented, saving the freight shed and a number of adjoining factories and granaries, though the buildings destroyed were only ten feet apart from those saved. It is believed the fire was caused by sparks from a shunting engine. The contents of the buildings were practically all saved. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1915', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1915.pdf (file revised February-18-24), tagged 'Alexandria', headed 'G.T.R. STATION DESTROYED'. Original issue not seen. |
| 1947-06-05 | 1947-06-05≤ | Ottawa Central Station | From 5 June 1947 (the issue date), the paper announced: "The C.N.R. Central Station will handle 8,000 persons on eight special trains, according to arrangements completed up to yesterday", for the Marian Congress in Ottawa; the C.N.R. planned 42 special trains from the Maritimes, Quebec and eastern Ontario and would set up hundreds of sleeping and dining cars on its Ottawa sidings as a "rolling hotel". Many Montreal-Ottawa trains were to run in extra sections. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1947', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1947.pdf (file revised February-28-24). Original issue not seen. Churcher's tag is 'Ottawa Terminal'. |
| 1959-07-24 | 1959-07-23 | Alexandria | The C.N.R.'s eastbound Continental Limited, Vancouver to Montreal, "jumped a switch and rammed into six cars on a spur line near the Alexandria station at 9.50 this morning", the two end cars of the train and several freight cars leaving the track; the engineer, Joseph Ouellette, saw the open switch and braked from about 80 down to about 50 miles an hour. A coal car fell on a parked car and J. L. Gauthier, shovelling coal from it, was buried to his neck and freed in about ten minutes; no one was seriously hurt. The train was delayed about two hours. The Citizen notes a similar accident on 5 June 1929. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1959', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1959.pdf (file revised undefined). Original issue not seen. Churcher's tag is 'Alexandria'. |
| 1993-10-25 | 1993-10-24 | Casselman | "On October 24, two Ontario Provincial Police officers were killed when their cruiser was struck by VIA's Ottawa-Montreal Train 34 at a protected crossing in Casselman." Constables Richard Jean, 23, and Alain Desforges, 30, "died at the scene": driving west on St Isidore Street at about 3:15 p.m., they attempted to cross the tracks "although red warning lights were flashing"; the Montreal-bound train dragged the cruiser half a kilometre and was held for about four hours, none of its 80 passengers injured. Investigators found no evidence they were answering an emergency call and could not say what caused the crash. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1993', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1993.pdf (file revised August-22-20). Original issue not seen. Churcher's tag is 'Alexandria'. |