Facts citing this source
| Ref | Date | Subject | Statement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1897-09-08 | 1897-09-08≥ | Arnprior | The O.A. & P.S. railway were on Wednesday last served an injunction restraining them from carrying over 27,000 railway ties, now at Arnprior, into the United States. There is a dispute about the ties between Hebron Harris and the Rideau Lumber Company. The O.A. & P.S. will not carry the ties until the dispute is settled. (As reported by 8 September 1897; the source dates the event only relatively.) Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1897', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1897.pdf (file revised February-23-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1898-07-06 | 1898-07-06 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The sectionmen of the Canada Atlantic Railway and the Ottawa & Parry Sound Railway went out on strike for higher wages on Friday. They are receiving one dollar and have struck for twenty-five cents more. Their action has not interfered at all with the despatch of passenger trains. It is said that recently the companies reduced the rent of the houses belonging to them, in which the sectionmen live, by $2.50 a month. (Eastern Ontario Review, 8 July: the men were asking an increase 'amounting to ten cents a day' and trains on the C.A.R. 'were quite late for several days'.) 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. |
| 1898-07-13 | 1898-07-13 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | The sectionmen's strike on the C.A.R. and O.A. & P.S. railways was declared off on Tuesday evening of last week and on Wednesday all the men returned to work. The men have accepted a compromise offered by the company. By the terms of the compromise the sectionmen will get $1.10 a day instead of a dollar as formerly; the section foremen will get $1.60 instead of $1.50; and the yard foremen will get $1.85 instead of $1.75. (Eastern Ontario Review, 8 July: 'The strike of the section men on the C.A.R. has been settled and the men have returned to work. The men got what they asked for.') 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. |
| 1898-12-14 | 1898-12-14 | Car Shops | The new carshops being built by the C.A.R. and O., A. & P.S. Railway Co. in Ottawa will be one of the largest in existence. It will have a floor space of forty acres. Electricity will be the motive power used in the works. 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. |
| 1899-08-23 | 1899-08-23 | Saint Polycarpe Junction | The tenth victim of the railway disaster at St. Polycarpe dies at the Water street hospital, Ottawa on Wednesday evening last, in the person of Miss Ellen McDougall, of Maniwaki. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1899', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1899.pdf (file revised March-06-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1900-11-14 | 1900-11-10 | Maxville | Jacques White, engineer on the Canada Atlantic Railway, died at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon at St. Luke's hospital as the result of injuries that he received in a collision between two trains at Maxville at 11 a.m. on the same day. ... White was an engineer on a ballast train that was backing into a siding at Maxville. A freight train was coming into the station at the same time. The brakes on the latter train did not act promptly and the two engines came together. White had stepped to the foot plate of his engine to see how his train was progressing. ... his ankles were broken and one knee was crushed. ... He died soon after reaching the institution. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1900', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1900.pdf (file revised April-25-24). Original issue not seen. |
| 1900-11-14 | 1900-11-12 | Maxville | This jury decides that Jacques White came to his death through injuries sustained on the morning of the 10th day of November, 1900, the ballast train of which he was driver having been struck by train No. 11, and we are of the opinion that the accident would not have occurred if such train No. 11 had been properly supplied with air brakes. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway Items from Area Papers – 1900', Ottawa Railway History Circle, https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Papers%20by%20Year/1900.pdf (file revised April-25-24). Original issue not seen. |