History
271 facts
| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
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| 1889-11-30≤ | The Canada Atlantic Railway gave notice of its intention to apply to the Railway Committee of the Privy Council to sanction the building of a branch line and the expropriation of the necessary lands through part of the township of Nepean, proposing to start from the main line near Archville and run north to the canal basin — a line along the east shore of the canal as far as the canal basin, with Maria Street passed by a subway. The object was understood to be the erection of a great central passenger depot; particulars of the scheme had already been published in the Journal the previous year. The Journal noted the company might have to give up their present line altogether west of Elgin Street and build a branch along the south shore of the Rideau River into the Chaudiere, where the St. L. & O. branch of the C.P.R. does. | Ottawa Citizen 1889-12-02(Says 'The Canada Atlantic Railway Company will ask...),Ottawa Journal 1889-11-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1889-12-06 | The application for power to traverse the east bank of the Deep Cut and erect a central depot near the canal basin, of which the C.A.R. gave notice in the Canada Gazette, was not likely to be allowed to pass the railway committee of the Privy Council without opposition. Mr. Charlebois of the Vaudreuil and Ottawa Railway said the application 'will almost certainly be opposed by our line, on the ground that it interferes with our charter'. Ald. Askwith said 'The C.A.R. asks to come from Hurdman's bridge, down the east side of the canal basin', with the Gatineau Valley road, the C.P. Ry. and the Vaudreuil and Ottawa expected to join in and eventually make it 'a central depot'. Among the business men in the neighbourhood of the proposed depot the C.A. Ry.'s proposition found great favour. | Ottawa Journal 1889-12-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1890-01-27 | Mr. J.R. Booth, ex-president of the Canada Atlantic Railway, said of the company's plan to enter Ottawa via the canal bank and build a union station: 'The Canada Atlantic has had the scheme in view for over two years and the Union station and new entrance would today have been an accomplished fact had it not been for several other undertakings...I refer to the branch line at the Chaudiere and to the Coteau bridge. This last great work is just finished and we are prepared to go on with the canal branch...If all goes well we will commence the new line and the union stations the first thing in the spring.' He said the object was to give convenience to the travelling public and avoid the Archville street crossings, and that the scheme was part of a larger plan for a bridge across the Ottawa bringing the Pontiac and Pacific and Gatineau Valley railways into the same union depot. On a bonus: 'The Canada Atlantic was built by local enterprise, and by Ottawa citizens, and never had any bonus, although the council voted it...if any bonus is going I think the Canada Atlantic...should get it.' | Ottawa Journal 1890-01-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1890-01-28≥ | Addressing the legislative committee of the City Council, the City Solicitor said the Canada Atlantic Railway were applying for the power to come along the bank of the canal; they had to apply because they were going over Government property, and would be the first the committee would have to deal with, as their application came up on Thursday. The Vaudreuil Railway Company and other companies were also applying for entrance into the city, and it was agreed the Mayor would ask the Government not to grant any company a monopoly. | Ottawa Citizen 1890-01-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1890-05-19 | The application of the Canada Atlantic Railway for power to build a branch line from the main line to the Central Basin was heard before the Railway Committee of the Privy Council, with the Pontiac Pacific Junction, Canada Atlantic and City of Ottawa as interested parties. It was explained that the line would require not one level crossing, that the Vaudreuil and Ottawa Railway had filed plans for a branch over the same route and for a crossing over the Ottawa at the same point, but that there was room enough on the canal reserve for the tracks of both railways. It was suggested it might be in the interests of the companies to have a union station, but this would be a matter of agreement; the City position was that no one company should be given a monopoly. A continuation of the hearing on May 28 heard Mr. Chrysler for the C.A.R. explain the proposed branch would be a little over a mile in length, applying under section 121 of the Railway Act to expropriate private land up to government land near Maria and Nicholas streets; the Vaudreuil and Prescott road's plans would cross the Rideau at nearly the same point, but there appeared to be nothing in their application that would interfere with the C.A.R.'s, there being room for both lines. The city solicitor, Mr. McTavish, said the council opposed exclusive privileges to any company and wanted a central union passenger depot; he had received a telegram from the Montreal and Ottawa railway company asking him to oppose the C.A.R.'s application, and submitted that the C.A.R. had exhausted their charter, having built their line to Ottawa, and could not continue without a new one. The application was taken under consideration by the committee. | Ottawa Citizen 1890-05-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1890-05-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1890-10-13 | 'This is the spot where we propose to erect the new Central Depot,' said Mr. E.C. Chamberlain, general manager of the Canada Atlantic Railway company, on Sappers Bridge. 'Our plan is to come in at the head of the deep cut...and run down the side of the canal, passing under Maria Street bridge, cutting off the corner of the canal, and running down the side of the wharf...The station will be on nearly a level with the canal. The waiting rooms would be on a level with the sidewalk, and over them would be the general offices...Leaving our line just after it crosses the Rideau...we should keep straight on...The road to Hurdman's Bridge would by a very slight deflection pass under our line...we should pass under Maria Street bridge...Then passing on here, the line would pass under the Sappers and Dufferin bridges straight on to join the Pontiac Pacific Junction and the Gatineau Valley and finally the C.P.R.' Asked where the freight sheds would go, he said: 'No, higher up, above Maria Street bridge, so that traffic could be diverted from the main streets. You see that will be the depot of the future.' | Ottawa Journal 1890-10-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1892-11-18 | Mr. J.R. Booth, who was building the Ottawa and Parry Sound railway, agreed to construct a central station in Ottawa if given $50,000 by the city; he was to take the bonus and build the depot himself, including land for car shops. | Ottawa Journal 1892-11-14(Earlier, terser report of the same negotiation: "M...),Almonte Gazette 1892-11-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1893-11-04≥ | A deputation of the Ottawa Board of Trade met the Hon. Mr. Haggart, Minister of Railways and Canals, to urge granting J.R. Booth the right of way along the canal's east bank for a central railway station; the Minister said the government had never promised Booth or anyone an exclusive right to build there, and that he would favour only a union station open to all railways in common. He noted the government had received applications for use of the canal reserve right of way from the Canada Atlantic, the Ottawa Arnprior and Parry Sound, the Atlantic Pacific, the Montreal and Ottawa, the Vaudreuil, and the Pontiac and Pacific Junction railways, but no formal offer yet to build a union scheme; ex-Mayor McDougall explained that Booth's plan was to build as far north as Maria street, put up a temporary station there (at an estimated cost of about $73,000 for a retaining wall along the canal bank), and await the courts' ruling on the Sparks estate's competing claim to part of the canal reserve before proceeding to the canal basin proper. | Ottawa Citizen 1893-11-04(The deputation met the Minister "yesterday afterno...) | |
| 1893-11-09≥ | By November 9, 1893, J.R. Booth, ex-mayor McDougall and engineer Geo. Mountain had spent an afternoon examining the proposed approach to the new central depot, looking at both the canal bank route and an alternate route east of Nicholas Street. Heavy excavation would be needed along the canal, requiring a crib work at the water's edge so cars could haul the spoil away to fill in where the Canada Atlantic and Parry Sound lines would junction; if the government built the crib work over the winter so a temporary track could be laid, Booth would begin the approach work in the spring. The Nicholas Street alternative would tunnel under Theodore Street, independent of the canal reserve, but would require buying considerable private property, including several houses. | Ottawa Journal 1893-11-10("Nearly all the afternoon yesterday..." Transcribe...) | |
| 1895-05-10 | The order-in-council, the first official document in the case, was passed on May 10, 1895. It sets forth that Mr. Booth (that is, the O., A. and P.S. road) was pressing for a lease of the canal reserve ... 'That it is expressly to be understood that all railway companies, now or hereafter desiring to avail themselves of the said property, and of the Central station to which it is to be the approach, shall be entitled to the use of the same on fair and reasonable terms and conditions to be determined, if necessary, by the railway committee of the Privy Council.' Reported in a Journal editorial of 1898-11-07 reviewing Mr. Booth's leases; the order-in-council also records the city's agreement to pay $50,000 towards a 'Central Union Passenger Depot'. | Ottawa Journal 1898-11-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1895-05-22 | THE CENTRAL STATION. It was learned last night from a reliable source that Mr. Booth had completed all arrangements for the central station project as well as for the construction of the workshops for the C.A.R. and the O.A. & P.S. railways. A station would be erected on the east side of Dey's rink near Theodore street. To reach it the line of the C.A.R., beginning at the west side of the bridge over the Rideau river, would be changed so that it would run directly to the head of Deep Cut and thence by way of the canal bank; the line of the Parry Sound railway would be extended on the east of the canal so that it would connect with the C.A.R. line at the head of Deep Cut; and the site of the proposed workshops would be the government property near the Deep Cut. There would not be a level crossing on Theodore street, for a subway was to be built. The pile driving necessary along the canal bank was to be commenced in a few days; two scows used by Messrs. Bronson and Weston in towing lumber had been taken up through the locks for the work, and another small scow was under construction at the C.A.R. workshops for the same purpose. Mr. Booth had concluded it was best to construct a temporary station on the site indicated pending a settlement on the ownership of the property along the canal basin, in dispute between the Government and the Sparks' estate; the property for the station had been purchased from Mr. Thomas Kirby, and it was likely Mr. Booth would have the station and railways completed by October. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-05-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-05-25 | C.A.R. Extension. The impression having got abroad that the Canada Atlantic railway was about to take vigorous action to prevent the tracklaying of the electric railway at the south end of Nicholas street, the point to be crossed by the C.A.R. extension down the canal bank to the Central station, the Journal called on Mr. Booth for information. Asked whether there was any ground for the report, Mr. Booth said: 'None whatever. I prefer to do things in an honorable and businesslike way.' Asked whether the Electric Railway's track would interfere with his line, he said 'Oh no,' and explained that he intended to make an undercrossing at that point, having discussed it with Mr. Ahearn and the city engineer; Mr. Ahearn agreed, and asked how long the undercrossing would take — about a month, Mr. Booth answered — whereupon Mr. Ahearn said he would stop the work there. Booth was surprised to learn a few yards of track had been put down at that point anyway, and that police protection had been obtained in anticipation of a difficulty. Asked what his company would do now, Booth said: 'Oh nothing, only to give them the level crossing that they appear to want.' Mr. Ahearn, asked separately, said the relations between the companies were most cordial, and that he had agreed to stop construction for a few weeks but was charged with not intending to go on with the road; to secure the right of way for the Electric road's extension to Ottawa East, he had decided to proceed with construction at the south end of the street instead. | Ottawa Journal 1895-05-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-05-30 | A young man by the name of Wm. Ogilvie in the employ of the C.A.R on the work of the pile driving on the east bank of the canal had his fore and second fingers badly jammed yesterday. | Ottawa Journal 1895-05-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-06-05 | Mr. A.W. Fleck, secretary treasurer to the O.A. & P.S. and C.A. Ry., was walking along the canal bank viewing the pile driving that is now being done there by Mr. Booth, when a Journal reporter met him. He states that Mr. Booth will be obliged to run night and day gangs, as they have only a limited time to complete the work. | Ottawa Journal 1895-06-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-06-06 | The first lease to Mr. Booth followed on June 6. It was for the canal reserve from the head of the deep cut to the Maria street bridge, at $200 rental. ... They lease the land to Mr. Booth for 21 years, with option of renewal by him for 21 years further, and then, for 99 years. But he is placed clearly in the position of a trustee. If he fail to observe any condition of the lease, he loses it. ... the government can expropriate him at any time at 18 months' notice. The leases are made out to the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company. The year 1895 follows from the editorial's order of events after the 10 May 1895 order-in-council. | Ottawa Journal 1898-11-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1895-06-10 | An engineering party from the Canada Atlantic railway are surveying a route for a temporary track from the main line back of Ottawa East to the Deep Cut. A level crossing has also been laid over the roadway fronting the canal in the village just outside the city limits. The object of the track about to be laid is to secure a means of carting away the material that will be taken out of the canal, in connection with the pile driving, and also to draw material to fill in the flat below the Deep Cut through which it is proposed to run the canal bank line. There is also the likelihood that the line for which the survey is now being made will also be used as a permanent line, if the road goes on. Canada Atlantic officials said the idea that they were trying to secure possession of the street crossing was mistaken, as all crossings depended upon the approval of the railway committee of the Privy Council. | Ottawa Journal 1895-06-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-06-11 | Trestle work begun. A definite move towards the canal bank line. The first definite move in the direction of building a line into the Central depot was begun this morning, when a gang of men were set to work to build the trestle work of the line from the C.A.R. main line to the head of Deep Cut. The timber is being laid today on Mr. Alex. Stewart's property, the low flat of land lying back of Ottawa East. An official of the C.A.R. stated the trestle work will go on at once. It will take some time to build the trestle, as it will be nearly a quarter of a mile in length. After the trestle is all built the company will begin filling it in with gravel. This work will keep a gang of men employed almost all summer. | Ottawa Journal 1895-06-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-06-18 | "There will be no delay in the work of building the line into the Central depot," said Mr. A.W. Fleck, secretary-treasurer of the C.A.R., "now that the trestle work has been begun. We are waiting for an answer from the Ottawa East council to our request for an exemption from taxes if we build our workshops adjoining the village. If it is in the affirmative we will then go on after the trestle work has been built to fill in the low property between the eastern and western lines preparatory to building our work shops there. If this is done a large force of men will be employed all summer." | Ottawa Journal 1895-06-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-06-18 | Building of the Trestle Work at the Deep Cut begun. Fifty men were at work this morning to build the trestle work of the line into the Central Depot. The survey of the line as far as Theodore Street has been completed, and yesterday Mr. Geo. Root and a party of the engineering staff of the O.A. & P.S. Ry. finished taking levels for the trestle work so that it could be immediately commenced. The timbers are all on the spot so there will be no delay on that score; framers and other workers are on hand framing the trestle timber, and today many of the heavy upright timbers had been placed in position. The trestle, which gives an inlet from the C.A.R. line to the Central depot, extends from the point where the line crosses the Rideau river bridge across the low flat of land owned by Mr. Arch. Stewart to the point where the Hurdman road connects with the Canal road above the head of the Deep Cut. The trestle's length is given as 2,100 feet in the 1895-06-18 report and 3,100 feet in the near-identical 1895-06-21 report — likely a typesetting error in one of the two, not a real change. | Ottawa Journal 1895-06-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Ottawa Journal 1895-06-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-06-24 | Mr. A.W. Fleck was seen this morning with reference to the statement in the evening paper that a temporary Central depot will be built at Theodore street. Mr. Fleck said, "It's nothing but a mere conjecture. I know nothing about it and I am sure the paper that made the statement cannot know anything either about such move." | Ottawa Journal 1895-06-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-06-24 | An erroneous item appeared yesterday in an evening contemporary to the effect that the western end of the railway trestle at Archville is still unfinished owing to the company being unable to close a deal for the Daly property over which the trestle is to pass. The fact is that the property in question was sold to the company on Tuesday last by Mr. Charles Murphy, solicitor for Mr. Daly. On the same date Mr. Murphy also sold the Biggar lot which adjoins the Daly property, and the company have thus had a clear right of way for some days. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-06-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-06-28 | The C.A.R. Trestle work. The western end of railway trestle at Archville is still unfinished as the company have not yet closed a deal for the Daly property over which the trestle is to pass. It is understood that the real difficulty exists in the owner of the property wanting to sell the whole of his claim to the company while the company only want to buy a right of way through it. If the deal cannot be made very soon the work of completing the trestle will go on and the value of the property left to arbitration. It is learned that early next week the houses of squatters on Ordnance Land will be removed. The pile driving along the east bank of the canal is being rushed along quite rapidly; it has now been done to within 150 yards of Maria street bridge, which will be completed next month. This contradicts the Ottawa Free Press's 1895-06-25 report that the Daly/Biggar deal had already closed and the company had 'a clear right of way for some days' — the two reports, three days apart, disagree on the state of the same land deal. | Ottawa Journal 1895-06-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-07-04≤ | First Engine Tomorrow. Tomorrow the first O.A. & P.S. Ry. locomotive will cross Nicholas street on the line into Central Depot. The rails were today almost all laid on the long trestle east of Archville, and all that was required to be done was to finish the north end of the trestle. In the beginning of next week a steam shovel will begin cutting out the canal bank from the head of Deep Cut to Theodore street, and the earth will be used in filling in the low ground beyond Archville on which the workshops are to be built. | Ottawa Journal 1895-07-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-07-09 | The Canada Atlantic Railway has purchased from the Sparks estate the right of way down the canal bank from the Maria street bridge north to the Canal basin, enabling the company to run straight down the canal bank to the basin between Dey's rink and the water, and around the basin in front of the Ottawa Granite Works, to the desired point for the station on the site of the old drill shed on Nicholas st. — a change from the original idea of running across Theodore street at the back of Dey's rink. The O.A. & P.S. Ry. now have 1,200 feet of side track laid along the canal bank piling in preparation for excavation; three hundred thousand cubic yards of earth are to be excavated. Tomorrow the steam shovel will be at work, having been brought down the line a few days ago for repairs. The trestle leading from the west end of the C.A.R. line into the Central depot is now one third built, sills laid half the distance; it will be 1,500 feet long. Mr. J.R. Booth, seventy years of age, has taken personal charge of the work, on the scene from six in the morning until dusk, frequently handling the pick and shovel himself. | Ottawa Journal 1895-07-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-07-09≤ | The Canal Bank Work. The pile driving along the east side of the canal is now completed. The work extends from Maria street bridge to the head of Deep Cut, a distance of 2,700 feet. Mr. Booth had the work pushed on rapidly. The work of excavating along the canal bank for the O.A. & P.S. entrance to the Central Depot will be begun not later than tomorrow afternoon. | Ottawa Journal 1895-07-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-07-11 | Practical work is running on the central depot line. The steam shovel arrived over the trestle work in the swamp on Monday and at once prepared for action; today steam was raised and the 'nigger' placed in position at the head of Hurdman road near the bed of the Deep Cut. It is proposed to keep the machinery at work night and day till Maria street bridge is reached. If, by that time, an arrangement has not been reached between the Government and the Sparks estate agents, the preparations for the temporary station will be begun at once. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-07-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-07-16≤ | Watching a Hustler. About 200 people watched the C.A.R. steam shovel at work on the canal bank last night; in a little over two hours the shovel had scooped out earth, clay and sticky, to load two trains of flat cars at twelve cars each. When a train is loaded it is run onto one of the trestles where the earth is unloaded by means of a stationary iron plough let down in front of the first car; the train goes ahead, and the plough, catching the earth, hurls it off to the ground at the foot of the trestle. It is expected the whole bank, down to the Maria street bridge, will be scooped out within a month. | Ottawa Journal 1895-07-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-07-26 | The "weighing" pieces have been put down for the construction of the railway track along the east bank of the canal as far as Maria street bridge. | Ottawa Journal 1895-07-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-07-27 | Twenty-eight minutes to load a train of 12 cars is the average time with the steam shovel at the canal bank excavation. At the trestle work those cars are unloaded in periods averaging one and a half minutes. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-07-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-07-31 | Good progress is being made on the approaches through Ottawa East and along the canal bank for the Central station. The building of the bridge over Hurdman road at the head of the Deep Cut, where the O.A. & P.S. line crosses, is to go on at once; the bridge is to be of solid masonry with four steel girders over the roadway, about fifty feet wide with three tracks crossing it, the roadway beneath 32 feet 6 inches wide. In building the O.A. & P.S. line along the canal bank a house belonging to Michael Kielly, on the Ordnance Lands at the head of the Deep Cut, had to be torn down as it was directly on the right of way; the company have decided to build a new house for Mr. Kielly nearby, superior to his former dwelling. The work of excavating the canal bank by the steam shovel is being interfered with by rain, the wet clay sticking to the shovel. The eastern trestle beyond Archville is now almost filled in; the filling in of the western trestle will begin at once, and grading has begun at the connection of the western approach with the main line of the C.A.R. | Ottawa Journal 1895-07-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-07-31 | The second lease was signed on July 31, giving the canal reserve from Maria street bridge on to the old canal basin, at $400 per year. Year taken from the sequence in the editorial (order-in-council May 10, 1895; first lease June 6). The lessee is the O.A.&P.S. | Ottawa Journal 1898-11-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1895-07-31≥ | Now that the work of cutting away the canal bank at the south side of Maria street, to afford an entrance to the proposed Central Station, has made excellent progress, the question of the location of the station itself has become one of immediate importance; work on the approach at the north side of Maria Street Bridge will likely be commenced next week. The site most likely to be chosen is that upon which the Militia Store now stands, a substantial stone building; it is probable some compromise may be effected between the Railway Company and the department whereby the structure could be handed over for use as part of a railway station, with the remainder extended over little Place d'Armes between Sapper's Bridge and the Militia Stores. Should this site be chosen, the approach would have to cross the eastern canal basin, meaning either a swing-bridge over the basin or its being filled and used exclusively for the railway, in which case the company would likely be required to furnish equivalent dock accommodation on the west side of the canal. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-08-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-08-01 | NOT FAR OFF NOW: FIRST STEPS TOWARDS A NEW MARIA STREET BRIDGE. The first important step towards the new bridge over the canal at Maria street took place this morning, when Chief Engineer Louis Coste of the public works department had an interview with Mayor Borthwick and Mr. J.R. Booth. Various questions in connection with the erection of a new bridge and the removal of the old one were discussed, but no definite decision was arrived at. It is understood an iron bridge with stone piers was the structure most favorably considered. Nothing can be done towards extending the central station line beyond Theodore street until the bridge matter is settled. Mayor Borthwick was asked by Mr. Coste to have the present bridge closed at once, but objected, holding it should not be done until the Sparks street pavement is completed; Mr. Coste agreed to make a recommendation on those lines. All indications are that the new bridge will be built this season. | Ottawa Journal 1895-08-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-08-01 | Whatever may be the site of the Central Depot, the C.A.R. and O.A. & P.S. companies have decided not to build new freight sheds in the central part of the city, but to make the freight buildings at the present depot on Elgin Street suit the purpose for some time to come. | Ottawa Journal 1895-08-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-08-03 | A pile driver has again been placed on the east side of the canal to continue the fortification of the banks. It stands near Maria street bridge. | Ottawa Journal 1895-08-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-08-03 | The first pile was driven on the north side of the Maria street bridge on Saturday in connection with the approach to the Central station. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-08-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-08-04 | The new trestle-work on the O.A. & P.S. Railway at Ottawa East is a great resort for venturesome urchins on Sundays, when the cars are still; the trestle-work is elevated some twenty feet above the ground. A half dozen lads were running along some flatcars lying idle on the trestle when one, a youth of eight or ten, tripped on a bolt and shot headlong to the ground; he fell on some soft clay and was found unhurt, howling lustily. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-08-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-08-06 | A plan has been filed in the city registry office showing the route of the O.A. & P.S. Ry. north of Maria street. The line as shown passes directly in front of Dey's rink and strikes from there in a direct line across the canal basin over a swing bridge to the rear of Easton's office at the foot of Little Sussex street; it is shown no further, as no agreement has yet been made with the Sparks estate. The company do not wish to buy the militia stores building, as it will be unsuitable for a railway depot and not as large as the one contemplated; it is now unlikely that the site for the central depot will be on the other side of Dufferin bridge. In a very few days the C.A.R. steam shovel will be at work right at the Maria street bridge; the engine attached to the flat cars was there yesterday. | Ottawa Journal 1895-08-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-08-08≥ | Hundreds of people watched the steam shovel from Maria street bridge last night; it is almost up to the bridge now. The Canada Atlantic have built a ten foot wooden fence between their track and Nicholas street at the Deep Cut. | Ottawa Journal 1895-08-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-08-09 | The steam shovel working on the canal bank reached the Maria street bridge about eleven o'clock last night, and was then removed to commence another cut of 30 feet beginning at the Deep Cut. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-08-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-08-10 | The first accident on the extension of the Canada Atlantic tracks along the canal occurred on Saturday night when a valuable cow belonging to Mr. Redmond of Nicholas street was caught between two flat cars and killed. Where the claim rests is a matter of dispute between the owner of the cow and the flagman at the crossing. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-08-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-08-12 | The C.A.R. steam shovel has begun operations on a second row of the canal bank, beginning, as before, at the Deep Cut. | Ottawa Journal 1895-08-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-08-22 | The steam shovel is making rapid progress in the second line of cutting; the canal bank from the Deep Cut to Maria street looks quite business like now, with two lines of track and a couple of switches down. A farmer who was evidently not as sober as he might have been tried, the night before last, to drive his horses through the 10 foot board fence that the C.A.R. put up to cut off Nicholas street and enclose the railway tracks; he had forgotten the way he came in the morning by the new route. | Ottawa Journal 1895-08-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-08-22≥ | Mr. Booth yesterday filed his plans with the department of railways and canals for the new central station. The site selected is that now occupied by the militia stores and the grass plot whereon now stands the cannon, immediately below the approach to Sappers Bridge. The entrance will be directly off the bridge, a broad stairway to the interior of the building leading down to the platforms. The lines into the station will run directly across the canal basin. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-08-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-08-23≤ | NEW CENTRAL STATION. As announced several weeks since, Mr. John R. Booth will shortly proceed with the erection of a new central station on the site of the stone building at present used as a military storehouse on the canal reserve south of Rideau street. The station, intended for the use of all roads running into Ottawa, will be a handsome and commodious structure. Already the work done south of Maria street has given an air of business activity to the neighbourhood very different from its former countrified look. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-08-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-08-24 | It seems that no formal plans for the Central depot have been submitted by Mr. Booth to the railway department. The plans sent to the department were only informal ones intended to give the minister a general idea of the work proposed. | Ottawa Journal 1895-08-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-09-04 | The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway have applied to the department of Public Works for permission to extend their tracks under Maria street bridge; the secretary sent the chief engineer's reply, which was to the effect that Maria street bridge was the property of the city and that the department is simply under obligation to keep the bridge in repair. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-09-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-09-11 | The steam shovel has started on a third round at the canal bank excavation; it will keep on working night and day. There was a rumor yesterday that during exhibition the C.A.R would run its passengers down the canal bank to the Maria street bridge; Mr. Fleck said there was no ground for the story. | Ottawa Journal 1895-09-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-09-16 | The C.A.R. is now running a fence across the canal reserve at Maria street bridge. As the steam shovel is now on its third round down, there will be no more further walking up the canal bank. | Ottawa Journal 1895-09-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-09-20 | Nothing new can be written about the location of the Central depot. No move has yet been made to extend the line north of Maria street, although the line must be across this street by December 1st according to the by-law, or the company will risk losing its $50,000 bonus from the city. The steam shovel will complete the excavation of the canal bank this fall; the third strip of earth will be finished in a couple of weeks, and another strip will excavate the required width. The fourth strip will be finished by the first of November. | Ottawa Journal 1895-09-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-09-28≤ | WILL CLOSE THE STREET. In a Couple of Weeks Theodore St. Will be Shut by the C.A.R. Theodore street will be closed for traffic to permit the excavation of the street for the C.A.R. lines into Central depot. Three or four tracks will be built across the street and these will be covered with temporary trestles. After the street is crossed the location and construction of the Central depot will be attended to. | Ottawa Journal 1895-09-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-09-30 | THEODORE STREET AND C.A.R. A Protest Against the Closing of the Street to Traffic. [Letter to the editor, signed 'CIVIS':] A short paragraph in your issue of Saturday states that 'Theodore street will be closed for traffic to permit the excavation of the street for the C.A.R lines into the Central depot,' and that the tracks will be covered with temporary trestles. By what authority will the street be closed? Not a shovel full of earth should be allowed to be removed until the railway company has given good security that it will build and maintain permanent bridges over its tracks, or our already depleted civic treasury may be called upon to provide such bridges. A signed letter to the editor, not a news report; dated by its own 'Ottawa. Sept. 30, 1895' line rather than the 1895-10-01 issue date. | Ottawa Journal 1895-10-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-10-03 | NOTICE TO QUIT. A Definite Move Towards the New Central Depot. The owners of the property on the east side of the basin have received notice of expropriation of their property for railway purposes, with instructions to vacate; leaseholders from the government have been notified their leases will not be renewed after May 1 next. Orders have gone forth to clear the canal docks of wood and timber; on Monday morning Butterworth's large coal shed, between Dey's and the canal basin, will be torn down, the O.A. & P.S. having concluded its purchase for a moderate sum. A temporary station will be erected at the east end of where that building stood, for the winter, so the company can claim the $150,000 bonus from the city. The site of the Central depot has been settled: it will be on the site of the militia stores building; next spring will see the depot begun. The whole of the canal basin is to be filled in, and buildings within the expropriated area torn down, including Richard Woodland's leather shop and dwelling, the brick row on Besserer street, the Nicholet House, Wm. H. Easton's wood and coal office, Ransoms hotel, and Cardinal's livery stables. The Central depot will be six stories high, built close to Sappers' bridge so passengers can step from the bridge into the waiting rooms; three flats for station purposes, three for railway offices; trains will enter beneath an arched covering as at Toronto and Montreal's Windsor depot. It will be built of sandstone brought from near Jones Falls, the same as used in part of the Printing Bureau; a local forwarder has been awarded the contract to bring down twenty thousand tons of it next summer. There will be four tracks entering the Central depot, two passenger and two freight, with an extensive freight depot probably sited between the dry dock and Little Sussex street. Men were put to work on the north side of Theodore street this morning clearing away things. | Ottawa Journal 1895-10-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-10-03≥ | CLOSING OF MARIA ST. BOARD OF WORKS AND MR. BOOTH DISCUSS THE MATTER. The crossing of Theodore street by the O.A.P.S. and the consequent blocking of that thoroughfare to traffic was discussed before a special meeting of the board of works, attended by Mayor Borthwick and aldermen, City Engineer Surtees, City Solicitor McTavish, and, for the railway, Mr. J.R. Booth, A.W. Fleck and G.H. Mountain. Mr. Booth said his company would be ready to begin excavations through the street by October 14, to be completed in five days; the company would build a durable wooden bridge from the east end of Maria st. to beyond the limit of excavation, two hundred feet from the canal piling. City Engineer Surtees thought the bridge should have iron post supports rather than being entirely wooden. Ald. McGuire asked whether a gangway for foot passengers, including the hundreds of schoolchildren who cross Theodore street daily, could be provided during excavation; Mr. Mountain, chief engineer, said it would be impossible, as a gangway could not be stretched across the excavation and would put children in danger from shunting trains. The committee, concerned that agreeing to Booth's request might give the government an opportunity to refuse to maintain Maria street bridge, decided that the chairman and several aldermen would wait upon the government with Mr. Booth to ascertain its views. | Ottawa Journal 1895-10-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-10-05 | NEW CENTRAL STATION. Another Imposing Structure to go up in Ottawa. The plan referred to [in the Citizen's 1895-08-23 report] was the elevation designed for Mr. Booth by the late G. Stalker, his last work, from which, by permission of Hon. Mr. Haggart, Minister of Railways and Canals, a drawing is presented. The depot is to stand on the site now occupied by the Militia Stores and the little 'Place d'Arms' in front, about 14 feet back from the present sidewalk. The basement or ground floor is to be the railway car station proper, trains running in on the level of the present canal basin embankment; a driveway from Little Sussex street will let carriages reach the train platform. A main entrance is planned through a covered portico level with the eastern approach of Sappers' Bridge. The first floor at street level will have waiting rooms and ticket office, with a broad double stairway and a passenger elevator down to the train platform; the upper flats will be railway (and probably other) offices. The building is to be of stone with iron girders. The approach will be along the present cutting and under Maria street bridge, across the eastern basin of the canal, necessitating equivalent dock accommodation on the western side by lengthening the present basin. Hon. Mr. Haggart has taken a deep interest in the scheme from its inception and has encouraged Mr. Booth, while ensuring the terms on which other railways may access the new union depot will be fixed by the Railway Committee of the Privy Council; the city's $50,000 bonus to Mr. Booth's railway becomes due upon the station's completion. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-10-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-10-07 | This morning workmen began operations on the north side of Theodore street in the construction of the tracks for the Central Station. A gang of men have since laid the tracks along the wharf, in front of the Butterworth coal sheds, while others have been engaged in preparing the way by excavation for the steam shovel to begin its work near Dey's boat house. It is intended that the shovel shall finish the cutting as far as the roadway on the south side, and then cut away all the embankment on the north side before the street section is interfered with, so as not to cause any obstruction to the traffic until the last moment. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-10-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-10-07 | The first serious accident in connection with the steam shovel working along the canal occurred yesterday afternoon when Mr. John Dodd of Nepean street, who was standing on the bank watching operations, fell over the embankment. He went very close to the edge to better see the work; the sod on which he was standing had been almost entirely undermined, and when it fell he fell with it, coming very close to being caught by the ascending shovel. His shoulder was badly injured and he carries several bruises. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-10-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-10-09 | The steam shovel on the Parry Sound Railway tracks was moved under the Maria street bridge this morning, and at noon started work in excavating the land immediately in front of Dey's boat house. The whole of the embankment on the north side of Theodore street will be cut away before the roadway is disturbed for the building of the railway bridge. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-10-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-10-11 | The steam shovel has again been moved, this time to the head of Nicholas street, in order to make another cut along the canal bank. Excavations north of the bridge have not as yet been completed. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-10-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-10-26 | THE SCOOP HARD AT WORK. The Excavation on Theodore Street Well Under Way - Taking Down a Pier. At seven o'clock this morning, men were put at work to remove the remaining timbers of the eastern approach to Maria street bridge; forty minutes later everything was cleared and the steam shovel was brought across Theodore street and set to work to excavate the bank from Dey's rink up to the pier of the bridge. The men then began removing the stone that filled the pier, occupying the whole forenoon. The excavation of the street is expected to be finished by Tuesday night. It was reported today that Mr. Booth had concluded a deal with Dey Bros. for their boat house and rink, but this was found to be incorrect; Mr. Booth made Dey Bros. an offer on Thursday, but they will not accept it, considering the figure too low. A second line of track is now being extended past Dey down to the Butterworth coal sheds at the canal basin; this shed will be torn down next week as it is on the site for the temporary depot. | Ottawa Journal 1895-10-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-10-30 | The timber for the extension of the Maria Street Bridge over the railway cutting is on the ground, and work will likely be commenced on the extension today. The cutting of the street will likely be finished tomorrow as the steam shovel has been doing exceptionally good work. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-10-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-11-02 | Work on the construction of the Theodore street bridge across the railway tracks commenced this morning and at noon three sets of uprights with the necessary connecting posts were in position adjoining the Maria street bridge. The steam shovel is now cutting on Theodore street itself, the canal bank having been removed. It will apparently be another week before the work is connected sufficiently to allow the resumption of traffic. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-11-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-11-04 | Dey Boathouse will remain undisturbed this year; it will not be torn down to permit the construction of the O.A. & P.S. Railway line until next spring. The owners have received notice to vacate the building on the first of next May, and will build another boathouse, 200 x 100 feet, in a central location. TERMS OF THE LEASE. The lease of the ordnance lands from the Deep Cut to the canal basin by the government to the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, as filed in the city registry office, covers ten pages of foolscap. It runs 21 years from 1 May 1895, at a yearly rental of $400. The company may not assign, transfer or sublet without the minister's consent. The approaches to the Central depot from the main line are to be completed on or before 1 July 1896 and thereafter maintained; the rail level of the approach is to be four feet above the canal's navigation height; if the full width of the lands is needed near the adjacent property, a masonry retaining wall and fence are to be built. No engine houses, blacksmith or repairing shops, or coal oil store houses are to be built on the ordnance lands. The railway may deal with trespassers as it wishes; the government retains free access to the canal for its workmen. The company must permit any other railway wishing to use the lands as an approach to the Central station to do so on reasonable terms, fixed if necessary by the railway committee of the Privy Council. The government may resume the lands for a public purpose after eighteen months' notice; at the end of the 21-year term the railway may remove its buildings, or renew the lease for another 21 years. | Ottawa Journal 1895-11-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-11-06 | At the Theodore street bridge today the work of erecting the 200 feet of abutments is rapidly proceeding. In front of Dey's boat house about 20 men are engaged making a cutting from Theodore street to run between the building and the three small houses lying to the south east of it; there is just enough room for a truck to pass through this opening, and as the cutting will be fully 12 feet deep it will leave the Dey property standing on an eminence entirely surrounded by the tracks. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-11-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-11-06≥ | Messrs. Dey of the boat house called at the city hall complaining that their water supply had been cut off by the action of the steam shovel. They wanted the engineer to have another pipe run into the building, but as this would necessitate excavating under the railway tracks now being laid, and the building is on the canal reserve, the city engineer would not listen to the proposal. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-11-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-11-07 | Mr. Frank Dey says he is experiencing a great deal of inconvenience on account of the water supply having been cut off. His application was for a service to his own private house and property, not the rink, which is on the canal reserve. It matters not, he says, how the water is furnished so long as he gets it. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-11-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-11-08 | O.A. & P.S. Station Site Located. The site for the temporary depot of the O., A. & P. S. Ry. has been laid out by the engineering staff of the line. The building will be located close up to Butterworth's coal shed and between the coal shed and Dey's boathouse. The coal shed will probably be used as a temporary freight depot. | Ottawa Journal 1895-11-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-11-12 | Passenger trains will be running into the temporary depot by the 15th of next month, said E.J. Chamberlain, general manager of the O.A. & P.S. Ry. Work on the temporary depot will be begun tomorrow; the Maria street bridge is expected to be completed by tomorrow afternoon, after which the men there will be put to work on the temporary depot. Upon its completion by December 15th the Elgin street depot will be disused for the passenger service of the O.A. & P.S. and C.A.R. lines; all passenger lines will run into the centre of the city. The temporary depot will be 25 feet wide, 75 feet long, built on precisely the same plan as the present Elgin street depot, with ladies' and gent's waiting rooms, a restaurant and ticket offices; express and baggage rooms will be built adjoining. It will be a substantial structure, needed to meet the public's requirements for a year or more until the Central depot is built on the Militia stores site. The main entrance for carriages will be by Wilbrod street; people from Upper town may cross Maria street bridge, at the end of which a sidewalk will lead into the depot. The railway officials are as yet undecided whether they will run freight into the centre of the city this fall, depending on whether frost makes the new road hard enough for heavy freights. The Butterworth coal shed may be torn down any day, its lease having expired last spring and not been renewed. Dey Bros. will remove their rink and have forty days in which to do this. | Ottawa Journal 1895-11-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-11-12≥ | The Theodore street bridge was completed sufficiently last night to allow of one side to be opened for foot travellers, to the great joy of the many who have been in the habit of crossing Maria street bridge back and forth to business and school. The whole structure will be thrown open tonight. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-11-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-11-14 | Maria street bridge as extended has been reopened for traffic. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-11-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-11-22 | Track laying along the canal bank is being pushed very rapidly, a gang of men putting in a number of hours work yesterday. The frost is necessitating more rapid completion of the line. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-11-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-11-30≤ | Dey's rink is now almost levelled to the ground. The steam shovel will be put to work on Monday afternoon to cut away the bank on which the rink stood. Two strips will be cut out from Theodore Street to the site of the temporary depot. As far as is known trains will be running into the temporary depot two weeks from Monday. | Ottawa Journal 1895-11-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-11-30≤ | Mr. Booth stated this morning that it was altogether improbable that the work of levelling off the land where Dey's rink stood would be proceeded with this fall, the frost working in so rapidly. The two iron bridges over the Hurdman's road near the deep cut will be finished tonight, as will the track laying. "Of course," said Mr. Booth, "we could commence on Monday or Tuesday running our passenger cars into the temporary station, but as this would interfere with the work in progress we will wait for some time, but by the 15th of next month the traffic will certainly be commenced." | Ottawa Free Press 1895-11-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-02 | The iron girders for the O.A. & P.S. bridge over Hurdman road at the head of Deep Cut were laid yesterday. | Ottawa Journal 1895-12-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-03 | Opening of the New Depot. The opening of the new temporary depot at the canal basin will be made the occasion of a formal recognition on the part of the city of the services rendered by Mr. J.R. Booth and the immense advantages being derived by the city as the terminus of the Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway. The mayor, aldermen and city officials will attend in a body and present Mr. J.R. Booth with a congratulatory illuminated address. This action was decided on by the council last night, originating with Ald. McGuire's motion, which carried unanimously. | Ottawa Journal 1895-12-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-04 | The O.A. & P.S. Ry. are discharging the men that have been employed within the city limits on the construction of the entrance to the Central Depot. About sixty men were discharged yesterday. The steam shovel is busily engaged tearing away the embankment which until a few days ago was the site of Dey's skating rink, to get a level entrance into the temporary depot. | Ottawa Journal 1895-12-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-05 | The steam shovel started to work on the Dey's rink site this morning. The ground is frozen hard from the surface for some distance down and the chunks of soil dislodged are frequently enormous; considerable trouble and delay are experienced from the lumps holding securely in the scoop. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-12-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-09 | Mrs. Augustus Keefer's stone quarry in Nepean township has been sold to Mr. J.R. Booth for $5,000. It is said Mr. Booth desired to procure the stone in the quarry for the construction of the temporary central station. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-12-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Almonte Gazette 1895-12-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-11 | As yet no date has been fixed for the formal opening of the new tracks along the banks of the canal, but that it will take place early next week is now assured, per Mr. Booth this morning. A third track has been laid, permitting an entrance to the eastern side of the temporary station, for freight taken directly from the cars, as no storage accommodation is to be provided for the present. A ten foot plank walk is today being constructed on Wilbrod street from Nicholas to the new depot. The mayor, city engineer and some aldermen, with a deputation from the Ottawa East town council, will inspect the new iron bridges over the Hurdman's road at the deep cut this week, possibly tomorrow. As the frost increases the difficulty of excavating grows; the shovel went off its tracks this morning, causing a serious delay. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-12-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-16 | John Glennie, aged 23, a fireman employed on the locomotive attached to the 'tank car' that carried coal and water supplies from the station yards to the steam shovel excavating close to the site of the temporary depot at Maria street, was found dead in the yard near the round house about eight o'clock in the evening, his head completely crushed. No one witnessed the accident. He had left the engine to couple the tank car to a box car, not noticing that one of the coal boxes projected a foot or more past the end of the tank car; stepping between the cars to couple them, his head was jammed between the cars as they came together. He died a minute or two afterward. The body was taken to Moodie's morgue; Coroner Mark impanelled a jury, which viewed the body before adjourning. Glennie had been in the company's employ about four years, rising from cleaner; a Scotchman who had come to Ottawa about six years before, he left a wife (married nearly three years) and two children. The engine involved was No. 81, per the 1895-12-19 inquest testimony (see the fact dated 1895-12-19) — not yet resolved to a site entity; a cylinder failure on the same-numbered engine was recorded on 1895-10-05. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-12-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Ottawa Journal 1895-12-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-17 | Central Depot Sir? On Thursday passenger trains will be running into the new temporary depot at the canal basin. A few weeks ago a few pieces of timber lay strewn on the ground; today a commodious station, not the poor 'temporary' affair some people thought it would be, is erected — Mr. Booth on the spot every day from early morning, though 70 years of age, often handling the pick and shovel himself. The building is 75 feet long and 25 feet wide, with 'lean tos' 16 feet wide on all sides; a covered platform 400 feet long extends south, to within 200 feet of Maria street bridge, with a wide platform from there to the bridge and a stairway down from the bridge, the main foot entrance. Carriage entrance will be from Nicholas by Wilbrod street or by Mosgrove street and the canal dock frontage from Rideau. The depot is covered with iron sheeting, divided into ladies' and gent's waiting rooms, a restaurant and a ticket office, with a baggage room at the north end. Canada Atlantic trains will use the west side track of the covered platform, Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound trains the east side; the station and surroundings will be lit by electricity. Mr. Booth said the depot would cost $4,000 and was not expected to be used a whole year before the new central depot was ready and this building torn down. | Ottawa Journal 1895-12-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-18 | THE CAR KILLED HIM. Jury Returns a Verdict of Accident in the Glennie Case. Night foreman Wm. Rogers, in charge of engine No. 81, testified he was moving the engine backwards to couple to the tank car, having received the signal from Glennie; he did not feel the usual shock, called out to Glennie, and receiving no answer, alighted and found Glennie lying across the track between the engine and tank car, bleeding at the ear. He explained the tank car's coal boxes: one had moved and protruded about six inches over the end of the car, and he had noticed this two weeks before the accident without reporting it. It seemed to him Glennie had been crushed between the protruding box and the engine while coupling. Locomotive Superintendent Ogilvie testified that exhaust steam from the engine had thawed the snow at the spot, making it slippery, and believed Glennie had slipped while going in front of the engine and had his head crushed by a lower part of the engine — evidence which dispelled the idea his head had been jammed between the draw-bars. A verdict of accidental death was returned after midnight. | Ottawa Journal 1895-12-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Ottawa Citizen 1895-12-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-18 | The delay in the Supreme Court in settling the Sparks estate dispute is not going to deter Mr. J.R. Booth. Mr. Easton has been requested to vacate the premises at the Basin before the second week in January; the company intend stringing a trestle work structure across the canal basin next week and will commence filling in at once, with two tracks laid right up to the militia stores. The first train into the temporary station will not be run until Monday next, it now being found impossible to put things into shape before then; a fence is being constructed around the canal to protect passengers alighting on that side. The side walk on the north side of Wilbrod street had its width reduced by the city engineer's order, to avoid taking in a hydrant. Workmen are opening up track near the Theodore street curve so the mail car can wait at the Nicholas/Theodore junction until the incoming train passes under Maria street bridge, then run down to Wilbrod street in time for the mail bags — a temporary arrangement. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-12-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-18 | The steam shovel, that has been so busy chiselling away the canal bank all summer, ceases work today. The shovel will early next spring begin to excavate another slice down the bank from the head of Deep Cut. | Ottawa Journal 1895-12-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-19 | An empty coach was run into the new central depot yesterday, when it was found that the canopy extending out over the platform had been built too wide. As a result the track running close to the canal had to be shifted in order to permit the easy and safe entrance of the trains. The work was done most expeditiously. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-12-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-20≥ | Workmen were putting the final touches on the station, which is situated at the north end of the old Dey's rink site, yesterday. A covered stairway leads to the landing from the Maria street bridge. The approaches to the station from Rideau street are via Musgrove street, and Wilbrod and Stewart streets, west of Nicholas, also lead to the station; a new sidewalk on Wilbrod street extends to the door. | Ottawa Citizen 1895-12-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-21 | City looks it over. Mayor and Aldermen at New Central Depot. The railway lines forming an entrance to the Central depot passed under civic inspection today; the temporary depot at the canal basin was also formally opened. At Mr. J.R. Booth's invitation, the civic finance committee, mayor and other councillors boarded a special train (a locomotive and two coaches, one Mr. Booth's official car) and went over the lines, taking a quarter hour to run into the temporary depot. Arriving, a large number of citizens were waiting on the platforms, including Claude McLachlan of Arnprior (vice-president of the O.A. & P.S. Ry.), Fred Booth (president of the C.A. Ry.), and others. Mr. J.R. Booth handed Mayor Borthwick the key of the building, and the temporary depot was formally opened by the mayor. Mayor Borthwick complimented Mr. Booth on his enterprise; Booth replied that the citizens had given him valuable help, but that favorable weather this fall had also helped him succeed. Ald. Cook proposed three cheers and a tiger for Mr. Booth. The finance committee met afterward and considered that the by-law granting the bonus had been fulfilled in every particular and that the remaining $50,000 bonus, payable on completion of the Central depot, had been earned, subject to the city solicitor's review of the by-law's details. Engine No. 16 was in charge of the special train, per the Ottawa Free Press's brief item of the same date. | Ottawa Journal 1895-12-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Ottawa Free Press 1895-12-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...),Ottawa Citizen 1895-12-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-23 | The first regular passenger trains left the new temporary depot at the canal basin this morning. The first was the C.A.R. express for Montreal, leaving sharp at 8 o'clock; the O.A. & P.S. train left five minutes later. Both trains ran up the bank to the head of the Deep Cut at a brisk clip. Many people were at the depot to watch, among them Messrs. J.R. Booth, E.J. Chamberlain (general manager, O.A. & P.S. Ry.), C.J. Smith (general passenger agent) and S. Ebbs (city ticket agent). The starting bell was rung by Mr. Booth. | Ottawa Journal 1895-12-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-23 | The city treasurer yesterday paid the Parry Sound Railway the amount due them by way of bonus. | Ottawa Journal 1895-12-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1895-12-30 | The new central depot has been opened now for more than a week, but that period of time has not destroyed the novelty of watching engines steaming into such a central portion of the city. The new station agent is Mr. John Savage, who was taken from General Clare's staff to fill that position. Close to the bridge on the north side a small building is being erected to be used as a wash house for the passenger cars. | Ottawa Free Press 1895-12-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1896-03-02 | The third and final lease was on March 2, 1896. It surrendered to Mr. Booth the old canal basin, and the rest of the reserve down to Sappers' bridge, at $500 a year. Thus for a total of $1,100 a year, Mr. Booth got the full half mile of ordnance lands from the heart of Ottawa out to the head of the deep cut. The lessee is the O.A.&P.S. | Ottawa Journal 1898-11-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-03-05≥ | Mr. J.R. Booth started a gang of men to work yesterday at excavating and enlarging the western side of the canal basin. The earth excavated will be used in filling in the eastern portion of the basin, over which trains will run when coming into the permanent central depot near Sappers bridge. (As reported by 5 March 1896; the source dates the event only relatively.) Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column; filed on Ottawa Central Station as the site of the permanent depot, as earlier canal-basin facts are. | Ottawa Citizen 1896-03-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-04-15 | Although it is evidently Mr. Booth's intention to go on with the new Central Depot this summer, it is doubtful if it will be completed before next year. Closing paragraph of an item about the militia stores building becoming a temporary depot; that part is held pending an entity for the building. | Ottawa Journal 1896-04-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-04-15 | After the first of June the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge will be the temporary depot of the O.A. & P.S. and C.A. Railways. This information was given today for publication by a prominent official of the lines. From that date the trestle structure over the canal basin will have been completed and made passable for trains. The militia stores building, which will be vacated during May, will be divided into waiting rooms, ticket office and restaurant. A baggage room will be located at the southern end. Trains will enter between the building and the canal. Three tracks will likely be run in and these tracks will extend past the temporary depot to beneath Sappers Bridge. A canopy will be built out from the building to extend over the trains, thus providing shelter from the weather. It is understood that the militia stored building may be the depot for some time. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. Announcement only. | Ottawa Journal 1896-04-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-04-17 | The trestle work in the east wing of the canal basin is almost completed and the thing that now remains to be done is to fill it in with earth and bowlder, in order to prevent its rising when the water is let in, about the first of May. | Ottawa Free Press 1896-04-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-04-17 | Mr. Booth said further that the commencement of work upon the structure, which it is proposed to erect near Sappers bridge would depend upon the government's decision in reference to the disposal of the present militia stores building. He had not been appraised as to when the authorities intended to accept a cash sum for the property, or request him to build another upon some site selected. | Ottawa Free Press 1896-04-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-04-28 | The steam shovel is on the last cut down the canal bank. It is at a point opposite Lisgar street. | Ottawa Journal 1896-04-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-04-29 | The men working on the construction in the canal basin are now kept at work at night. | Ottawa Journal 1896-04-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-05-06 | The ties of the C.A.R. tracks over the canal basin have been laid to within 200 feet of the militia stores building. | Ottawa Journal 1896-05-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-05-08 | The C.A.R. tracks over the canal basin have now been laid as far as the Militia Stores building. This morning several car loads of lumber for the wharf were taken that far. | Ottawa Journal 1896-05-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-05-12 | The steam shovel working on the canal bank has now reached a point about 100 yards from the Maria street bridge. | Ottawa Journal 1896-05-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-05-13 | The men working on the steam shovel which is cutting away the canal bank beside the C.A.R. tracks had considerable trouble with it last evening. While trying to remove it to the Deep Cut it ran off the tracks and it was several hours before a large gang of workmen were able to get it on again. | Ottawa Journal 1896-05-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-05-20 | The steam plough is still tearing down the canal bank near the Deep Cut. Several more sheds will soon have to be moved further back in consequence. | Ottawa Journal 1896-05-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-06-02 | The steam shovel is still eating into the canal bank. It is now about half way between the Maria street bridge and the Deep Cut. The new signal and tool house on the C.A.R. tracks at the Deep Cut has now been completed and painted. It is quite a neat looking building. | Ottawa Journal 1896-06-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-06-03 | Workman's and Erratt's old store houses at the canal basin have now been taken down. The C.A.R. tracks will be laid up to the militia stores building as soon as possible. | Ottawa Journal 1896-06-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-06-06 | The building owned by Mr. W.H. Easton at the foot of Little Sussex Street has been bought by Mr. Booth and is now torn down to make way for the O.A. & P.S. Ry entrance to the site of the new Central Depot at Sappers Bridge. It is understood Mr. Easton was paid $125 for his building. | Ottawa Journal 1896-06-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-06-06 | The Ottawa Electric Street Railway will not build the Little Sussex Street spur line across the canal embankment to the present depot but will run the tracks down to the militia stores building instead. It is stated that Mr. Booth informed the company yesterday that it would be unnecessary to cross over the canal embankment. Item concerns the electric railway's track; it bears on the site of the depot. | Ottawa Journal 1896-06-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-06-06 | The militia stores will be partially converted into a railway depot by the end of this month. The west side of the building is to be used as a depot and the militia stores will remain in the other half of the building until a new building can be erected for storing the supplies. It is expected to have the west side of the militia building fitted up for a depot before the first of the large farmers' excursions on the C.A.R. and the O.A. & P.S. Ry. run into the city. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. Announcement only. | Ottawa Journal 1896-06-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-06-11 | Lumber is being shipped by the O.A. & P.S. Ry. from the militia stores building. It is drawn from Edwards mill to the siding beside the militia stores and then piled upon flat cars and conveyed to the Shepherd and Morse's lumber yards beyond Ottawa East and there unloaded. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Journal 1896-06-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-06-25 | The stores branch of the Militia Department is having the stuff removed from the first flat of the old militia stores building just as fast as can be handled. It is the intention of the railway people to occupy the south half of the ground floor for a waiting room, etc. The track outside which butts against the building will be in the centre between two covered platforms. This arrangement is only temporary, but will likely have to last for some time, as the militia department is not expected to be in a position to look after a new building until provision is made for it in the form of money. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Free Press 1896-06-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-06-26 | Within a few days the Canada Atlantic and O.A. & P.S. trains will be running to the north side of the canal basin. An arrangement has been effected with the Militia Department whereby a portion of the stores building will be placed at the disposal of the railway people. For the present the southern half of the lower flat will be occupied for station purposes, the removal of the contents of that portion of the building being now under way. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. Announcement only. | Ottawa Citizen 1896-06-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-06-30 | All the material has been removed from that portion of the militia stores which it is proposed to be given over to the railway people at present. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Free Press 1896-06-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-07-07 | The lower portion of the militia stores building is expected to be ready for occupancy as a temporary railway depot by the 25th of this month. Carpenters are at present making the necessary improvements. The indications are that the new Central Depot will not be begun until next summer, and will not be completed before Christmas 1897. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Journal 1896-07-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-07-09 | Workmen commenced making the changes at the military store house at the canal basin this morning with the objective of converting it into a temporary station. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Free Press 1896-07-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-07-09 | The tracks of the C.A.R. at the canal basin were today continued to right beside the military stores building. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Journal 1896-07-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-07-16 | Men are at work today in front of the militia stores building, laying the foundation timbers for the covered platform to extend about fifty feet beyond the end of the building. This platform will be erected immediately. The tracks into what will be the new temporary station are now being ballasted and almost ready for trains to enter. Trains may be running into the militia stores by Monday. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Journal 1896-07-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-07-18 | The improvements to be made at the militia stores building preparatory to the partial conversion of that building into a temporary Central Depot will be quite extensive. There will be covered platforms extending all round the building also one long platform, also covered, extending from Sappers Bridge to the north side of the old basin, a distance of fully three hundred feet, and another running from the south side of the basin southward to the piling over the old basin. Trains will enter the station on four tracks. Two of the tracks will be along the west side of the building and extend to beneath Sappers Bridge. These tracks will be used for the Montreal trains. The other tracks will run in to the south end of the station, and from these tracks the O.A. & P.S. trains will enter and depart. The work will not be completed for three weeks. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. Carloads of timber for the overhead coverings are also reported brought in. | Ottawa Journal 1896-07-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-07-30 | The platform in front of the new station at the militia stores building was completed this afternoon. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Journal 1896-07-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-08-01 | Work on the changes of the interior of the militia stores building is progressing rapidly and it will probably be ready for use as a temporary Central station for early next week. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Free Press 1896-08-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-08-03 | This morning workmen removed the guns and shells in front of the stone building which is to be used as a temporary central depot. They have been set out so as to allow of a sidewalk passing between them and the building. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Free Press 1896-08-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-08-03 | The half of the militia building to be used for the temporary depot is being rapidly fitted up for that purpose. It will contain a very large general waiting room, a ladies waiting room and a restaurant. The sides of the interior of the building will be sheeted and the ceiling whitewashed. The four tracks entering the station are now almost ballasted, and the new station will be ready for occupancy in about ten days. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Journal 1896-08-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-08-08 | The new temporal [sic] Central depot will likely be ready for occupancy on Monday August 17th. Trains, it is expected, will arrive and leave regularly after that date. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. Announcement only. | Ottawa Journal 1896-08-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-08-18 | It will not be long before trains are running into the new temporary Central Depot below Sappers Bridge. The stairs have been built up to the bridge and all that remains to complete this part of the job is to break a ten foot opening in the railing of the bridge for the entrance. Today will begin the construction at the head of the stairway, a resting room, which will be about ten feet square. It is expected that by next Monday the new station will be used for regular train service. (Ottawa Journal, same date: 'It is expected that the new Central Depot below Sappers Bridge will be used for regular train services by next Monday.') Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. Announcement only. | Ottawa Citizen 1896-08-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1896-08-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-08-22 | The little waiting room that has been erected at the head of the stairway leading down to the Central Depot from Sappers Bridge is the object of a good deal of unfavorable comment. Many claim that it is an unsightly structure for so central a locality and question the legality of the construction within the fire area. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Citizen 1896-08-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-08-24 | Work has been stopped on the entrance to the central station from Sappers Bridge pending a decision by the building inspector as to whether its erection is an infringement of the fire by-law. (Ottawa Free Press, same date: the work 'was also forbidden by the department of public works as proper authority for interfering with the construction of the bridge had not been obtained'; Mr. Booth said he would take the waiting room down at once if requested.) Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Citizen 1896-08-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1896-08-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-08-25 | The Building Inspector has decided that the cabin entrance to the Central Station on Sappers Bridge is an infringement of the by-law, and it now remains with the Council as to whether they will request Mr. Booth to pull down the structure or not. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Citizen 1896-08-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-08-29 | Part of the covering of the new platform stairway connecting the militia stores building, the new temporary depot, with Sappers Bridge is being torn down today and a new covering put on. The baggage room building will be removed from the present depot to the militia stores next week. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Journal 1896-08-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-09-12 | The baggage house at the Central depot is being removed to the south end of the old militia stores building. It has been removed about 150 yards in three days. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Journal 1896-09-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-09-12 | A large gang of men were engaged at the Central Depot yesterday morning in removing the freight department from the old station up to the new stone building. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. 'Yesterday' is relative to the issue date. | Ottawa Free Press 1896-09-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-09-17 | The militia stores building became the Central Depot of the C.A. and O.A. & P.S. railways today. All trains on both lines leaving and arriving, started or arrived at the new depot at Sappers Bridge. Last evening all the depot furnishings were removed from the temporary structure at Maria street bridge to the new quarters. The new depot was ready to receive passengers before the first train, the Montreal Express, left at 8 o'clock this morning. The first train to arrive was the Parry Sound Express due at 9.30 a.m. The new depot is quite commodious. The waiting rooms are capable of seating about 150 people. There is also a splendid restaurant. The C.A.R. trains enter on the west tracks as usual and the O.A. & P.S. on the eastern tracks. (Ottawa Citizen, same date: the work of transforming the old militia stores building into a railway station was completed last evening, and trains 'will in future, commencing today, leave and arrive at that structure.') Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. The Ottawa Citizen of 1896-09-18 reports trains leaving the building 'yesterday'. | Ottawa Journal 1896-09-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1896-09-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1896-09-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-09-21 | The railing on Sappers Bridge which had barred access to and from the new Central Station was removed on Saturday evening by permission of Hon. Mr. Tarte. ... Mr. Tarte said that application to remove the barrier had not previously been made to him, but he consented to its removal for a week at any rate. Cabs will not however, be permitted to take up or deposit passengers at the bridge entrance to the depot, but will be required to go round to the Besserer street entrance. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Citizen 1896-09-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-09-26 | The stairway leading from Maria street bridge to the old central station will likely be removed altogether. The platform at the bottom of the stairway, and leading to the building currently used as the temporary station has been taken away. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. The wording ('old central station' beside 'the building currently used as the temporary station') is ambiguous as to which building is meant. | Ottawa Citizen 1896-09-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-09-30 | The stairway leading from the Maria street bridge and used by people going and coming from the Central station has been torn down. If left there the stairway would be a source of danger inasmuch as some people would use it and would be continually walking along the company's tracks. Item is headed 'Central Depot' in Churcher's place column and concerns the militia stores building at Sappers Bridge; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. | Ottawa Citizen 1896-09-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-11-11 | Mr. Booth stated that it was his intention to build a covered trestle work over this part of the basin. The company proposed to build their freight sheds in this vicinity and all the space would be required for freight yard purposes. It is not proposed to fill in this portion of the canal basin. Replying to a proposal that the unused canal basin become a public swimming bath. | Ottawa Journal 1896-11-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-11-16≥ | 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.) INFERENCE: the source says 'the Canada Atlantic Station' at Ottawa; taken to be the militia stores depot in use since 17 September 1896. Accepted by the maintainer. | Montreal Gazette 1896-11-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Almonte Gazette 1896-11-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-11-17 | 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. INFERENCE: 'the railway station' is taken to be the militia stores depot (see the 1896-11-16 fact). | Montreal Gazette 1896-11-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-11-18 | 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. INFERENCE: 'the C.A.R. Station' is taken to be the militia stores depot (see the 1896-11-16 fact). | Montreal Gazette 1896-11-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Almonte Gazette 1896-11-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1897-01-04 | The special car 'Boston' that has been at the C.A.R. station here for some days has attracted much attention. It is admitted to be one of the finest and most complete palace cars ever placed upon any railroad. It is a combined parlor, dining and sleeping car. ... The car belongs to Mr. Benham of Boston, its owner and inventor, who is visiting Ottawa. (Ottawa Free Press, 5 January: 'A superb railway car is on exhibition at the Central depot today', inventor Mr. George A. Denham.) The car was privately owned (American Palace Car company); the two papers spell the inventor's name Benham and Denham. Filed on Ottawa Central Station, where it was shown. | Ottawa Journal 1897-01-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1897-01-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1897-01-15 | The C.P.R. has the right to enter along the Rideau Canal bank to the depot of the Canada Atlantic at Sappers Bridge: but it is said that the privilege will not be taken advantage of and that the Company will establish a central depot of its own. The Free Press tonight locates this depot to the north end of Bank street that is at the base of the cliff on which the Supreme Court building stands. Ottawa correspondent of the Montreal Gazette quoted in the Eastern Ontario Review's Montreal and Ottawa column; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. 'The depot of the Canada Atlantic at Sappers Bridge' is the Central depot. | Eastern Ontario Review 1897-01-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1897-05-14 | Regarding it the Ottawa Free Press had the following despatch from Montreal:- 'Montreal, May 8 - ... it is proposed to allow it [the new Montreal and Ottawa branch] to enter the city by means of a loop line around Nepean Point to the Central station on the canal, now used by the Canada Atlantic. The idea is to make it a union station.' Quoted in the Montreal and Ottawa column of the Eastern Ontario Review; a proposal by the CPR-affiliated M&O, not carried out as described. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' / 'Central station' of the source, following earlier years. | Eastern Ontario Review 1897-05-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1897-06-05 | It is rumored that the C.P.R. will purchase some property near the canal basin for railway purposes. The company has options on land between the basin and Nicholas street, and will altogether likely close with the owners. Should they do so, the probability of the C.P.R. having a station in the heart of the city will assume larger proportions. A rumour about CPR plans; filed on Ottawa Central Station at the maintainer's direction. Ottawa Terminal caution tag. | Ottawa Journal 1897-06-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1897-06-16 | A small fountain has been erected at the C.A.R. station. A boon to the thirsty traveller. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' / 'Central station' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Free Press 1897-06-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1897-06-23 | The C.A.R. train from Boston yesterday was gaily decorated with flags and bunting as it steamed into Central station. The engine was very finely draped and presented a fine effect (because of the Jubilee). | Ottawa Journal 1897-06-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1897-08-31 | The C.A.R. had their large pile driver at work this morning at the old canal in the rear of the Central depot. Where the Ottawa Electric Railway track unites with their track the road bed has been sinking for some time. The company now intend to make a permanent repair and save the constant necessity of raising their tracks. The ground in the vicinity is very soft and it will require considerable work to make a first class job there. The dry dock will not be filled up for some time yet. | Ottawa Journal 1897-08-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1897-09-09 | When the freight sheds are erected, it is the intention of the company to centralize all their offices around the Central depot. There will be no union station erected this year but the company fully intend to have this work carried on as soon as it can conveniently be done. | Ottawa Journal 1897-09-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1897-09-27≥ | A serious accident was narrowly averted at the O., A. and P. S. station on Saturday evening. As the train from Ottawa was pulling in to the station one of the passengers jumped from the train while it was going at a good rate of speed. He fell between the station platform and the train, but succeeded in keeping hold of the car and escaped being dragged under the wheels. (As reported by 27 September 1897; the source dates the event only relatively.) The source says 'the O., A. and P. S. station' and gives the place as Ottawa; both lines used the Central depot in 1897. The train is said to be coming from Ottawa, so the station may be elsewhere; check. | Ottawa Journal 1897-09-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1897-09-27≥ | A somewhat similar occurrence took place as the excursion train on the same line was pulling out of the station on Friday morning. In attempting to board the train a man slipped and fell under the train but fortunately was quickly pulled away from his dangerous position. (As reported by 27 September 1897; the source dates the event only relatively.) See the preceding fact: the station is not named beyond 'the O., A. and P. S. station'. | Ottawa Journal 1897-09-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1897-12-02 | The handsome observation engine St. Lawrence and the official car Ellesmere, of the Central Vermont railway, carrying Dr. Webb, arrived at the Central depot early this morning. | Ottawa Free Press 1897-12-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-01-29≥ | Mr. Alexander Cote, a young man 21 years of age, and an ex-employee of the Canada Atlantic Railway, was instantly killed on the C.A.R. track yesterday afternoon. The accident occurred shortly after 3 o'clock. The Boston train was just pulling out and had gone about 500 yards beyond the Maria street bridge, when the fatality took place. The Parry Sound track runs out parallel with the C.A.R. track. On the Parry Sound track the shunting engine was at work and was moving in the same direction as the express. It is supposed that Cote was walking out on the Parry Sound track, and hearing the shunter coming, stepped over on to the C.A.R. track just as the express came behind him. (As reported by 29 January 1898; the source dates the event only relatively.) Filed on Ottawa Central Station as the nearest named place (500 yards beyond Maria street bridge, outbound from the depot). Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Journal 1898-01-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-01-31≥ | After a deliberation of over two hours on Saturday evening last, the jury empanelled to enquire into the circumstances surrounding the death of Alexander Cote, killed on the C.A.R. track on Friday afternoon, found that the deceased's death was purely accidental. ... William Swenson, engineer on the Boston Express said that when a short distance from Maria street bridge he noticed a man walking on the Parry Sound track. When the express was about forty feet from him Cote walked over to the C.A.R. track. ... Witness whistled and applied the brakes but Cote didn't look back and before the train could be stopped he was knocked down. (As reported by 31 January 1898; the source dates the event only relatively.) The Journal of 1898-01-29 reported suicide as suspected from statements of a friend; the jury found accidental death. See the fact on the death itself. | Ottawa Citizen 1898-01-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-06-17 | The C.P.R. short line has been granted running privileges into the Central station at Ottawa. The C.P.R. will enter on the C.A.R. tracks. In the Montreal and Ottawa column under an unclassified 'Ottawa' tag; it names the Canada Atlantic tracks and the Central station. | Eastern Ontario Review 1898-06-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-06-29 | It has been stated that we have been acting unfairly towards the Ottawa and New York Railway. Now I wish to deny that emphatically. We have never refused to the Ottawa and New York Company or to any other company free and reasonable access to the Central passenger station. We have always expressed our willingness to negotiate with them for terms, and in case we could not agree upon the terms and conditions, then we were willing that the same might be settled by the railway committee of the Privy Council. ... The O., A. & P.S. railway has a lease from the Crown of certain portions of the Rideau canal reserve ... the Ottawa New York company as well as the C.P.R. company are only entitled to an entrance over our tracks, along with other roads to the Central passenger station. Statement of Mr. J.R. Booth to the Ottawa Journal ('Central Station: Mr. J.R. Booth states his view of the position'); he also says the city's bonus was $50,000 and that the company would return it. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Journal 1898-06-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-07-28 | Mr. J.R. Booth wants the use of the entire ground floor of the present Central depot for his railways and the offices of the militia stores will be removed at once. ... It is said that work will be commenced at once to lay tracks in the east side of the present station to accommodate the C.P. and O. & N.Y. railways. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. The item also discusses where the militia stores will be moved. | Ottawa Free Press 1898-07-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-08-09 | A staff of men commenced work this morning making preparations for the entrance of the C.P.R. and O. & N.Y. there. The old baggage room used by the C.A.R. has been raised [sic] and will be removed. The coal and wood shed belonging to the militia stores will also be removed and the lower flat of the government stores cleared out leaving a small hallway in the centre, opposite the elevator. It is expected that the south east end of the present building will be used for a baggage room. Where the baggage room formerly stood the tracks of the new lines will be run, parallel with the Parry Sound tracks. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. Transcribed 'raised' is probably 'razed'. | Ottawa Free Press 1898-08-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-08-12 | The baggage building at the Canada Atlantic is being removed from the side to the end of the depot. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Citizen 1898-08-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-08-22 | The Ottawa and New York and Montreal and Ottawa short line will enter the Central Depot on 28th August. This was the statement made by an official of the C.A.R. to a Journal reporter today. Both companies have decided to accept the terms of the C.A.R. temporarily until the return of the Minister of Railways who is to have the matter of the terms brought before him for settlement. Preparations are being made for the entrance of these railways now. The baggage room is being enlarged and the superintendent's office and that of the train dispatchers is being moved from Elgin Street to the Central Depot. The superintendent will be located behind the restaurant. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. Announcement of an entry on 28 August. | Ottawa Journal 1898-08-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-09-12 | The C.A.R. authorities intend putting a stop to the crowds of youths and maidens who make it a practice to promenade at the station previous to the arrival of the Montreal train each evening. Of late it has been almost impossible for passengers to walk along the platform owing to the crowd and last night, Mr. Hicks, an employee of the road, was stationed at the entrance to the station to prevent persons who had not friends coming on the train from entering. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Citizen 1898-09-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-10-12 | Mr. J. C. McGonagle, construction engineer of the O. & N.Y. Railway, was ordered off the C.A.R. and O.A. & P.S. Railway property near the Canal Basin to-day. Mr. McGonagle was surveying and taking levels for the O. & N. Y. freight terminal here, and in order to get the levels he had to go on the Canada Atlantic property. The matter was finally arranged when it was brought to the attention of the C.A.R. Company that under the Railway Act the engineer had a right to go on the property. Near the canal basin; filed on Ottawa Central Station. | Ottawa Journal 1898-10-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-10-28 | The C.A.R. has been refused an injunction to prohibit the O. & N.Y. from proceeding with their terminal arrangements at Ottawa. In the New York Central column under an unclassified 'Ottawa' tag; it names the C.A.R. as the applicant. The Journal of 1898-11-07 says Mr. Booth 'went into court to get an injunction to stop the O. and N. Y.'. | Eastern Ontario Review 1898-10-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-11-05 | One hundred men are employed ballasting and improving the yard at the Central C.A.R. depot. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Free Press 1898-11-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-11-09 | The O., A. and P.S. road to-day applied to the railway committee for a reconsideration of the order permitting the O. and N.Y. railway to construct a track along the canal reserve to the freight terminals of the O. and N.Y. company. In this question is involved the use of the land leased to the O., A. and P.S. for Central station approaches, etc. ... Mr. Osler ... admitted that the present company use the approach for freight purposes. ... Mr. Lash claimed that the Parry Sound road had prevented the O. and N.Y. getting in and wanted to further delay the company. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Journal 1898-11-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-11-10 | The railway committee at yesterday afternoon's session ordered that the approaches to the Central depot should be used by all roads equally on a wheelage basis. The approaches to the Central depot were leased to the O. A. and P.S. railway, to be used as a Central depot by all roads. The O., A. and P. S. railway company demanded from the C P. R. $1,500 a month rent for the use of the station and an equal sum from the O. and N. Y. railway. ... the committee allowed the C. P.R. to cease paying rent to the O., A. and P. S. company; but to pay on a wheelage basis and to bear a proportionate share of the operation and maintenance expenses. The O. and N. Y. company if it uses the station and approaches was ordered to pay $250 a month rental to the O. A. and P.S., and also pay on a wheelage basis and bear a proportionate share of the operation and maintenance expenses. The order was made on 9 November 1898 ('yesterday' relative to the issue). Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Journal 1898-11-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-11-10 | Speaking to the Citizen today, Mr. J.R. Booth stated that the new depot would be located on the site of the present one, and work would be started as soon as the militia department secured other quarters for militia stores and vacated the premises. ... The Ottawa and New York railway will commence running into the present central station as soon as the railway committee of the privy council gives its decision on the question of freight terminals. Announcement of intended building work. | Ottawa Citizen 1898-11-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-11-16 | Mr. John R. Booth stated to The Citizen to-day that the new union station will cost in the vicinity of $130,000, plans for which are now being prepared. ... The building will be of stone and brick ... The station will extend from the present building at the canal basin over the vacant lot of land to Rideau street, with an entrance from Sapper's bridge. Trains will run into a large over-head covering in the rear of the station. The lower floor will be used for spacious waiting rooms, ticket offices and a dining hall, while the upper apartments will be used for offices of the railroad corporations. ... He fully expects to commence the work early in the spring and rush it to completion. Announcement of a planned building. | Ottawa Citizen 1898-11-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-01-24 | The mystery as to what the civic railway committee discussed last week at that private meeting is not a mystery any longer. ... The scheme is one in which all the railways entering Ottawa are interested, it is nothing less than the formation of a private company which proposes to buy up the rights of the Canada Atlantic, Parry Sound, Canadian Pacific and Ottawa and New York railways to the central depot facilities, and then operate the terminal, charging each railway company according to the number of trains handled daily. ... A magnificent union depot will be erected by the Terminal Company if the scheme goes through. Ottawa Terminal caution tag; the scheme concerns the Canada Atlantic's Central Depot lands, so filed on Ottawa Central Station. | Ottawa Journal 1899-01-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-01-27 | At the meeting of the railway and lighting committee yesterday afternoon the plans of the proposed terminal company were laid on the table by Ald. D'Arcy Scott ... It also showed the entry into the city of the other railroads along the canal reserve. ... Ald. Scott explained that at present Mr. Booth ... had no right to [handle freight] and might at any time be prohibited by the government. ... The property now occupied by Mr. Booth consists of two hundred feet along the canal bank from the head of the Deep Cut to Maria street bridge ... The following resolution was then passed by the committee: 'That this Committee is of the opinion that the formation of a terminal company ... would be of great and lasting benefit to the city of Ottawa.' Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. The Citizen gives Ald. Scott's remarks at greater length, including his proposal for a passenger station on Rideau street and freight sheds on Besserer street. | Ottawa Journal 1899-01-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1899-01-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-01-27 | Mr. J.R. Booth was asked today to make a statement for publication about the proposed terminal company. Mr. Booth refused to make any statement. | Ottawa Journal 1899-01-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-03-31 | The Central Depot at Ottawa on Monday morning last presented a busy scene. There were three trains for Montreal all standing side by side. The C.A.R. left at 8.25 a.m.; the Capital Flyer on the C.P.R. at 8.30 and the C.P.R. local at 8.35. The Flyer had a sign board stating 'This train stops at Vankleek Hill, Vaudreuil and Montreal.' Many of the officials of both roads were on hand to look after their respective interests. Unclassified 'Central Depot' tag; filed on Ottawa Central Station. | Eastern Ontario Review 1899-03-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-04-01 | The Railway Terminal Company scheme proposed by Ald. Scott some time ago, will not be carried out just yet. ... All with the exception of Sir William Van Horne of the C. P. R. expressed a willingness to meet and discuss the matter. The C. P. R. magnate however wrote that in his opinion such companies were unworkable. Ald. Scott ... wrote that as he had had a conference with Mr. Booth and found that it was Mr. Booth's intention to give all the facilities which could be given by the terminal company, it would for the present at least be as well to let the matter drop. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Journal 1899-04-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-07-15 | Mr. Donaldson, general superintendent of the company, and his staff of train despatchers are now comfortably situated in the Central depot, having moved from Elgin street early last week. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-07-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-08-21 | To facilitate the movement of freight between the Union depot and the Sussex street station the C.P. Railway Co. has decided to build a short line across the country on the east side of the Rideau River. ... It will then skirt away from the river till it reaches a point on the Montreal and Ottawa railway near the junction of that road and the Ottawa and New York railway. CPR's own line; recorded for context of the terminal disputes but does not itself concern the Canada Atlantic. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-08-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-09-30 | Work will start on new Central Depot as soon as Militia stores is vacated - More with drawing. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. Churcher's abridged entry; not fully transcribed. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-09-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-11-28 | The C.P.R. has acquired a right of way along Patterson's Creek, and it is said to be their intention to build a branch line from Rochesterville to Ottawa East ... It is suggested that some steps be taken to have the C. A. R. and C. P. R. use the bed of the creek on equal terms and that the present right of way owned by the C. A. R. be disposed of. ... The C. P. R., it is said, has been negotiating with the C. A. R. to secure the right to run over their tracks. Ottawa Terminal caution tag; filed on Ottawa Central Station as a continuation of the terminal-access dispute. | Ottawa Journal 1899-11-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-11-29 | Mr. C.W. Spencer, general superintendent of the C. P. R., is in the city negotiating with the C. A. R. with a view to securing either a right of way alongside the C. A. R.'s right of way in Stewarton or else the right to use the latter company's tracks from the Chaudiere to Ottawa East. In the event of a failure to reach an agreement the C P. R. will proceed to build a line along the bed of Patterson's Creek. | Ottawa Journal 1899-11-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-12-01 | A number of recent transfers of considerable blocks of property in the south end led to inquiry, the result of which is to show that the C. P. R. evidently means business in its scheme to connect the Montreal and Ottawa short line by a branch across the city, with the C. P.R. main line. ... The contention of the C. P.R. people is that they were induced to acquire this independent right of way through the failure of negotiations with the Canada Atlantic company for the use of the Parry Sound line between the Central depot and the C. P. R. track, near Mechanicsville. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-12-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-12-02 | Mr. George E. Kidd, the barrister, has a bright idea to solve the difficulty of level crossings in connection with the entrance of the C.P.R. He suggests that the line be extended from the connection at Dow's Lake along Centre street to the Exhibition Grounds. ... Mr. Kidd says the Canada Atlantic Company should be forced to go in that direction also and remove its tracks from the heart of the city. Transcribed 'Daen's Lake' is read as Dow's Lake. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-12-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-12-04 | During the month of November there were registered with Commissioner Pratt 59 transfers of land. Nearly all of these involved comparatively small amounts, the chief one being a parcel of land east of Bank street and lying to the north of Patterson's creek, belonging to Mr. H.C. Monk, which was sold to the C.P.R. for $16,500. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-12-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-01-05 | Hintonburg residents are uneasy over the fact that Mr. J.J. Morris of Pembroke, with his assistants, has been engaged in surveying through the center of the village. The survey is said to be in connection with the C.P.R. and the proposed track will run from the C.P.R. west of Queen street, southeast, and then near Concession street, turn straight east and run across the south of the city, either by Patterson's creek or by some one of the streets running east and west to the Central station. The C.P.R. is apparently determined to bring the western passenger trains into the heart of the city in order to compete with the C.A.R. system. Ottawa Terminal caution tag; CPR's own survey, recorded for the terminal-access context. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-01-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-01-13 | The work at the new freight sheds and offices is now all but completed and it is expected they will be ready for occupation within a couple of weeks. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-01-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-01-13 | Very early Monday morning the men will depart from the Exhibition grounds, with all their baggage and guns. These with the horses they will bring to the Elgin street depot and will pack upon special cars that will be waiting for them. Then the men will form up and will march in Elgin street direct to the Central depot. ... The military train, which will consist of seventeen or eighteen cars in all, is timed to leave at ten o'clock. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. Announcement of the departure of 'D' Battery for the Boer War. | Ottawa Journal 1900-01-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-01-15 | The men numbered about one hundred and seventy, and the horses one hundred and thirty-seven. ... The battalion marched out the Elgin street gate and along that road to the Elgin street depot, where the horses were loaded. ... The horses were nervous at the noise of the trains and many of them refused to go into the cars at all. ... But the horses were loaded at last, sixteen to a car. | Ottawa Journal 1900-01-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-01-15 | Special train takes volunteers for the Boer War. Major Hurdman. Full account. Fifteen car train bound for Halifax. (Ottawa Journal, same date: the arrangements at the Central depot 'to prevent too great a crush around the men were excellent. A long double line of heavy ropes were extended along the centre of the depot platform.') Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-01-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1900-01-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-01-20 | It is said Patterson Creek route will be adopted by CPR. Ottawa Terminal tag; CPR's own plan. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Journal 1900-01-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-02-21 | While the C.P.R. has its right of way practically all purchased for an entrance across the city by Patterson Creek to the Central depot, on certain properties they had only an option. The company last week renewed the options for a further period. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-02-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-02-27 | Another route now proposed by CPR for reaching Central Depot. ... A route on the south side of the canal has been sized up and a survey is being made. ... The canal would be crossed somewhere about where the present bridge on the Prescott line, or to the east of it, and a route taken through what is known as Wyoming Park. Bank Street road would be crossed at a point between the swing bridge and Billings Bridge. The line would skirt Ottawa East and strike the present line along the canal bank about the head of Nicholas Street. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Journal 1900-02-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-03-12 | At the station there was an immense crowd and the enthusiasm was of a most demonstrative character. Thousands of loyal citizens cheered the western horsemen. ... The men were accommodated by two trains, especially arranged by the Canadian Pacific officials ... The first train pulled out sharp at 10.30 o'clock amidst thundering cheers ... (Ottawa Journal: the Strathconas' horses were put on two trains at the Union depot the night before; the men paraded from Lansdowne Park to the Central depot and both trains left on schedule, the first at 10.30, the second half an hour later.) Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. The departure of Strathcona's Horse for South Africa. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-03-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1900-03-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-03-17 | A gas compression plant has been installed at the C.A.R. Central station for the supply of compressed gas to the passenger cars. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-03-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-04-06 | The C.P.R. has removed its option on certain property between Isabella and Catherine streets in connection with the proposed route across the city. No definite plan however as to the route to be followed has been announced as yet. (Ottawa Journal, same date: the CPR 'has renewed its options for properties along Isabella Street and with this renewal it seems likely that the CPR intends getting into Centre Town that way.') Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. The two papers appear to disagree on whether the option was removed or renewed. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-04-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1900-04-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-04-14 | Speaking of the proposed new Central depot today Mr. Booth said he was glad the contract for the militia stores building had been let. He hoped the contractors would push operations with all speed in order that he might get to work on the new station as soon as the government stores were removed. Asked if he had any intention of acquiring the burned Howe block in order to afford him more room for a station site, Mr. Booth said he knew nothing of the matter at all. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-04-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-04-26 | A detachment of the Montreal fire brigade arrived at 6.50 over the C.A.R. It consisted of an engine, a reel, 8 men in charge of a chief and 5 horses. The trip from Coteau was made by engine 622 in 1 hour, 55 minutes. Another engine arrived from Montreal at 7.05 p.m. ... The Montreal Detachment returned to that city at four o'clock this morning. The Brockville and Peterborough brigades also returned this forenoon after paying their respects to Chief Provost. ... For Relief Fund: a great many friends of the sufferers from yesterday's fire have requested the Canada Atlantic Railway company to give them an opportunity to come to the city ... that company has very kindly agreed to run special trains from all stations, Valleyfield, Hawkesbury and intermediate points, to Ottawa, also from Pembroke and stations east, at a very low rate of fare. Twenty-five per cent of the revenue from these trains will be turned over to the relief fund. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. The great Hull-Ottawa fire of 26 April 1900. Fire brigade special trains and relief excursions. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-04-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-04-27 | During the afternoon Brockville was asked to send any assistance that could be spared from that town. An engine and a reel of hose was sent out ... When Smith's Falls was reached it was learned that the engine could not be landed in the city over the Canadian Pacific railway, and the train was run down to St. Polycarpe Junction and in over Canada Atlantic tracks to Central depot. The fire was well under control so that the steamer was not unloaded, but the Brockville firemen gave every assistance they could otherwise. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Journal 1900-04-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-05-12 | The heavy loss sustained by the Canadian Pacific in the fire is likely to temporarily derange any plans which it has had for securing a right of way across the city and connecting the transcontinental line with the short line running into the Central depot. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-05-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-09-07 | The C.P.R. company ... will cross the city next year connecting the transcontinental line with the short line between Ottawa and Montreal. ... The line will likely branch off at the round house on the Richmond Road, cross that thoroughfare and run south over the Prescott line to a point near Young street and from there run nearly parallel to the tracks of the western division of the C.A.R. to the short line tracks down near Hurdman's Bridge. ... When completed, the line will permit of through trains making much better time ... It will also enable western trains to run in and out of the Central depot when it is built. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-09-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-10-06 | As the work on the new government military stores is being rushed, it is expected that the stores will be out of the present building in the course of a few months and the space now occupied will be converted into offices for the Ottawa & Gatineau and the Pontiac & Pacific railways. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-10-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-10-20 | The Canada Atlantic yards between Central depot and the Maria street bridge are being enlarged and new tracks have been laid. The work of levelling and filling in the new yard is being expedited by means of steam shovels. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-10-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-10-24 | A steam shovel belonging to the C.A.R. has been at work cutting away the embankment near Wilbrod street. The (city) engineer says the work has been interfering with the sewer and has instructed the company to discontinue operations. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-10-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-11-14 | City Engineer Kerr says that the C.A.R., with the object of closing up James street, placed a fence across the street near the new siding which the railway company is laying. Mr. Kerr has written the company ordering that the fence be taken down. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-11-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-11-29 | C.A.R. request to the stopping up of Wilbrod and James streets will likely be granted. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. | Ottawa Free Press 1900-11-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-12-19 | The new union depot for Ottawa, so long talked of, will be built during the coming year, if present intentions are carried out. A prominent official of the Canada Atlantic railway stated today that he did not have the remotest doubt that the work would be proceeded with considering that in the spring the government will vacate the building at the canal basin used jointly for militia stores and depot purposes. The new military stores building in the rear of the drill hall is already completed on the outside, so that early in the summer it will be in readiness for occupancy. Mr. J. R. Booth has time and again asserted that as soon as the new building is done work on the union depot will be started. Ottawa Central Station is used for the 'Central Depot' of the source, following earlier years. Churcher's file carries two near-identical transcriptions of this item on the same date; merged as one fact. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-12-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1900-12-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1901-09-28 | According to railway returns some 24,000 passengers were brought into Ottawa last week. Judging by the daily returns the Central Fair was responsible for about half, the royal visit for the rest. Filed on Ottawa Central Station per the operator (2026-09-28). The source does not itself say which railway(s) carried the passengers; tagged 'Ottawa Terminal', which served both the CP and the CA. | Ottawa Journal 1901-09-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1901-11-25 | This morning the Ottawa and New York express due at the Central Station at 10.45 struck and seriously injured Telesphore Gravelle of Aylmer, a fireman on the Ottawa, Northern and Western Railway. The unfortunate man had put his engine into the round house and was walking towards the station between the rails and the main line. The engineer on the passenger train whistled three times and had slowed considerably when Gravelle was struck. The cow catcher knocked Gravelle down but clear of the rails. At St. Luke's hospital his injuries were found to consist of two scalp wounds on the back and the side of the head, an abrasion of the right shoulder and an injury to the left knee. Gravelle was an employee of the Ottawa, Northern and Western Railway, not the CAR; filed on the Central Station because the CAR's own Ottawa and New York express was the train involved and the accident happened on CAR trackage there. | Ottawa Journal 1901-11-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1902-06-13 | Preparing the tracks. Cross over being laid for CPR trains at Central Depot. The Canada Atlantic Railway tracks will be in readiness for the CPR trains to pass through the Central Station on Sunday. Engineer Mountain superintended the installing of a crossover switch from the track adjacent to the canal to the one nearer the station. There was previously two crossovers but one was not used. The stop block on the track near the station will not be removed. The switch has a longer lead than the older ones as the CPR trains are longer than the Gatineau trains. | Ottawa Journal 1902-06-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1902-06-16 | First train pulls through. Imperial Limited Passes Central Depot. The Imperial Limited, the fastest train in the C.P.R. system, passed through the city by way of the Central depot yesterday afternoon. This was the first train to pass through the Central depot since the dispute between Mr. J.R. Booth and the C.P.R., which was heard before the railway committee and resulted in favour of the C.P.R. The fast train pulled in at 3.10, stopped five minutes, and passed on over the bridge through Hull and around to Union depot, where the engines and crew were changed for the west. | Ottawa Journal 1902-06-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1905-06-09 | Plans of the Grand Trunk. Will build Depot in Ottawa. Sir Charles Rivers-Wilson, when in Montreal, stated positively that as soon as the Grand Trunk took over the Canada Atlantic, arrangements would be made for the erection of a suitable terminal here. The plans of the Grand Trunk do not stop there, as Sir Charles said the company proposed erecting a big hotel here. | Ottawa Journal 1905-06-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1907-02-12 | GTR offer to the city: drawing and plan of proposed Union Station and hotel submitted. The hotel is where the station was ultimately built; no provision was made for CPR access to the Interprovincial Bridge. | Ottawa Journal 1907-02-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1907-10-26 | Station and Hotel Construction Begins. City Council almost Unanimously in Favour of Grand Trunk Terms. By a vote of twenty to four the Major's Hill Park site is approved. Sod was broken at two o'clock. Mayor D'Arcy Scott turned the first sod, using a nickel-plated duplicate of the tool used by the sappers in excavating the Rideau Canal. | Ottawa Journal 1907-10-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1908-02-13 | The G.T.R. now proposes a big hotel and Central depot, promised to the city in return for fixed assessments for fifteen and twenty years respectively. The buildings are both considerably reduced in size from what was first proposed to council and promised by the G.T.R. authorities. Churcher's file includes a drawing of the reduced plans, not transcribed here. | Ottawa Journal 1908-02-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1908-05-15 | New Central station plans submitted by G.T.R. Churcher's file includes pictures of the plans, not transcribed here. | Ottawa Journal 1908-05-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1908-09-09 | The contract for tearing down the old concrete and brick dwellings in the yards behind the Central station was awarded to Mr. J. Hudson of Ottawa, and work was commenced. Superintendent Donaldson said it was the intention to erect new freight sheds about where the two old buildings had stood. He had no information as to when work would resume on the baggage annex to the station, whose foundation had been laid by John Quinlan and company. | Ottawa Citizen 1908-09-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1908-09-29 | The baggage annex for the new G.T.R. station will be completed this fall and will be occupied for station purposes; it is hoped to have the foundation for the hotel completed before the winter puts an end to building operations. The tracks will then be moved over, the annex used as a station, and trains will start from there. | Ottawa Citizen 1908-09-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1909-04-09 | The Ottawa City Council has requested the Government to order the G.T.R. Co. to remove a big fence placed around the property where a big Union station was to be erected by the company, but which seems to have been abandoned. | Eastern Ontario Review 1909-04-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1909-05-10 | The present stone building which has so long done duty for a central station at Ottawa will be demolished as soon as the baggage annex and power house, which is being erected now beside it, is completed. The new annex will be of concrete and brick with sandstone facings. It will be two stories high, with the upper floor being for offices and the ground floor for baggage rooms. Upon its completion the furniture and fittings of the present stone station will be moved into it and work on the new building will commence. | Ottawa Journal 1909-05-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1909-05-13 | A civic building permit for the erection of a power station and baggage annex has been taken out by the GTR at Ottawa. Work was commenced on the annex some days ago. Of the $50,000 to be expended as stated in the permit, from $10,000 to $12,000 probably will be used for relaying the tracks and work required in the yards. | Chesterville Record 1909-05-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1909-08-19 | The first car of steel for the frame of the new G.T.R. station has arrived in the city and is being worked into the foundation of the building. It is just nine weeks ago that the first sod was turned on the site of the new station. Today the foundation walls on the north end and on portions of the east and west sides are completed; workmen were obliged to work down nearly five feet through solid rock to reach the required level. | Ottawa Journal 1909-08-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1909-09-01 | The roof of the historic old building that has served as the G.T.R. station for so long is being partially removed today. Though the roof has weathered the storms of over half a century, the workmen find the rafters and sheeting to be perfectly sound. | Ottawa Journal 1909-09-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1909-09-02 | Workmen today began tearing down the old Central depot. The excavation work is being rushed and on the hotel site men are again at work excavating for the foundations. Several tons of old railroad records are being moved today from the old G.T.R. depot building, which is being torn down; much care is being taken in the work of transferring them from the dusty files to their new receptacles in the station annex. | Ottawa Journal 1909-09-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1909-10-13 | The stone work on the new station was started yesterday. Several cars of granite have arrived and this quantity will be used up immediately in the first course on the west side of the new building on the portion of the foundation which is now complete. The course of granite will be followed with Indiana limestone. | Ottawa Journal 1909-10-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1909-11-12 | The big derrick used in hoisting the large blocks of stone to walls of the new Central Depot smashed yesterday at about 10:20 while lifting one of the biggest blocks of stone. The derrick is gauged to lift two tons, and the stone on the cable is said to weigh about that much. | Ottawa Journal 1909-11-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1910-01-11 | The new power and heating plant at the Grand Trunk station, which has been in the course of construction for several months, is nearly completed. Fifty men have been employed on the building which is 100 by 65 feet square. Machinery of the latest pattern will be installed in the building. | Ottawa Journal 1910-01-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1910-02-09 | The new Grand Trunk station is rapidly nearing completion and the conglomeration of steel and stone and timber that occupied the site a few months ago is slowly but surely being worked into a graceful building which, when completed, promises to be one of the most attractive railway stations in Canada. The contractors will begin the work of plastering in the building in a few days. | Ottawa Journal 1910-02-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1910-03-28 | The Grand Trunk Company is making rapid progress in the construction of the concrete wall on the left bank of the Rideau Canal. There are now over eighty men employed in the work. When complete the wall will be twelve hundred feet long, being the entire distance between the bridges. Though the work was begun only on the 12th of February, already three hundred feet are finished. | Ottawa Journal 1910-03-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1910-04-01 | The stonework on the new G.T.R. station at Ottawa was finished this week. | Eastern Ontario Review 1910-04-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1911-04-06 | A most peculiar accident occurred at the Union Depot, Ottawa, last Friday evening, when engine 1259, which was standing at the local chutes out in the yards, suddenly started to back up at great speed, and before anyone could reach it to shut off steam it dashed into the front of the engine on the Gatineau train which was slowly backing into the station. A remarkable part of the whole accident is that no one was near 1259 at the coal chutes, and no one was hurt. | Kemptville Weekly Advance 1911-04-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1911-06-01 | Work on the new Central station has been set back owing to time lost in tearing down two arches at the rear of the edifice. It is understood that the architect objected to these two particular arches because they were too flat and therefore not strong enough to carry the material to be placed above them. A large gang of plasterers are at work within the building and the work is being rushed with all haste. | Ottawa Journal 1911-06-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1911-08-03 | Mayor Hopewell is daily hoping to get a letter from Mr. Hays, of the G.T.R., in reply to one he sent asking what progress is being made at the Central station. The mayor is anxious that provision should be made for plenty of room at the station when the Duke of Connaught arrives. If the station is not finished in time it is likely that some arrangements will be made whereby a temporary platform could be erected in some part of the city where there are Grand Trunk tracks, possibly in the vicinity of Elgin street. | Ottawa Journal 1911-08-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1911-08-17 | Mr. M. Donaldson, superintendent of the Ottawa division of the G.T.R., has assured the civic reception committee that the railway authorities will cooperate with the city in the reception to the Duke of Connaught. The new station will probably be formally opened on the day the new governor general arrives; the G.T.R. officials intend to attend to that part of the demonstration at the station, likely held in the large waiting room, which will accommodate 600 or 700 people. | Ottawa Journal 1911-08-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1911-09-06 | The removal of several of the local departments of the Grand Trunk Railway from the temporary station where they are now housed to the new station will, in all probability, says Mr. Morley Donaldson, superintendent of the Ottawa division of the Grand Trunk, positively take place about next month. About the end of September he will be in a position to say the last word on the matter. Most of the necessary finishings are completed in the new quarters but a few final touches are yet to be done. | Ottawa Journal 1911-09-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1911-10-02 | The large refrigerator to be installed in the restaurant in the new Grand Trunk station arrived on Saturday; the sections alone required a car to themselves, and it will take a staff of men about a month to install it and put the sections together. A large ammonia plant is to be used in running this huge ice-box, which will be divided into three compartments of different temperatures. The kitchen is nearly all ready for operation and the restaurant is expected to open in about a month's time. | Ottawa Journal 1911-10-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1911-10-10 | Saturday next will see the new G.T.R. station handed over to the regular station staff by the contractors. The flooring of the structure is now all down and only a few finishing touches have yet to be added. The railway commission will move into its new offices in the station inside a few weeks' time, while the G.T.R. office staff itself will be transferred as soon as possible. | Ottawa Citizen 1911-10-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1911-11-06 | It is positively assured that the Grand Trunk station will be opened by the middle of November. The different rooms are being furnished and the lighting fixtures are in place. The temporary station will be converted into a baggage room at the latter part of next week. Everything will be of the latest pattern and a new system of baggage checking will be introduced. | Ottawa Journal 1911-11-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1911-11-27 | Central station opening at Xmas. The general appearance of the new Central station is rapidly assuming a different aspect; the marble work is now being treated with an acid for cleaning it. Work in connection with the ticket office is also receiving attention, to be fitted up with red oak woodwork and six wickets for the sale of tickets; as there is no partition specified in the plan, it is likely that the directors of the Grand Trunk and the C.P.R. will have to call a meeting to decide which part of the office each will occupy. The mammoth refrigerator, which has taken six weeks to install, was tested this week with a water test and worked satisfactorily. The train shed is also being rapidly erected, all of steel with a fireproof glass top; the section closest to the annex is nearly completed and will be used as soon as the roof is put on. The contractors are trying to have the station open for Xmas and should succeed. | Ottawa Journal 1911-11-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1911-12-28 | For the specific purpose of looking over the Chateau Laurier and the new Central Station, Mr. Charles M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk, H.G. Kelley, vice-president, and a party of other prominent officials of the company arrived today from Montreal by special train. They returned this afternoon to Montreal. | Ottawa Journal 1911-12-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1912-01-05 | Two steel workers were injured during construction of the train shed. | Ottawa Journal 1912-01-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1912-01-17 | Delay in the opening of the new station; opening certain within the next two months. The delay is due to delay in delivery of materials. | Ottawa Journal 1912-01-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1912-05-29 | The C.N.R. is negotiating to use the G.T.R. Central station on the completion of the line from Ottawa to Toronto. | Ottawa Journal 1912-05-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1912-06-01 | A long existing want was filled for Ottawa this morning when the new Central station built by the Grand Trunk Railway Company was opened. There was no official ceremony in connection with the affair, Manager F.W. Bergmann simply opening the doors at the main entrance. The new Central Station, one of the finest of its kind in eastern Canada, was thrown open to the public on Saturday. | Ottawa Citizen 1912-06-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1912-06-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, same collection,...) | |
| 1914-08-18 | A new passenger train service began operating between Toronto and Ottawa over the new lines of the Canadian Northern Railway, daily except Sunday, with trains arriving and departing from the Central Station, Ottawa, located in the heart of the city. New equipment was used throughout, consisting of electric-lighted coaches and cafe parlour cars. The new line provided a service between Toronto, Ottawa, Richmond, Smiths Falls, Brockville, Portland, Chaffeys Locks and stations on the Brockville, Westport and Northwestern Railway, in addition to Napanee, Belleville, Trenton, Brighton, Cobourg, Port Hope and Oshawa. | The Toronto World 1914-08-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1915-02-03 | The report is still persistent that the C.P.R. is endeavouring to obtain further accommodation at the Central Station and use it as a terminal for several of the trains now running from the Union Station. C.P.R. officials in Ottawa declared they knew nothing of such a project. One railway man stated that while the C.P.R. would probably be glad to obtain facilities for more trains at the Central Station, it would hardly be possible, as the accommodation was already taxed almost to capacity with all the G.T.R., C.N.R., O. and N.Y., and eight C.P.R. trains daily. | Ottawa Journal 1915-02-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1915-04-05 | In spite of denials made at the head railway offices in Montreal of rumors that the C.P.R. is going to abandon the Broad Street Station and run all its trains to and from the Central Station, negotiations between the two companies were reliably reported to be nearing completion, with an arrangement possibly reached within a couple of weeks. The plans provided for abandoning the Broad Street Station entirely for passenger traffic, tearing down its buildings and using the yards for freight only; the C.P.R. would instead build new freight yards on land it had bought on Nicholas street, at a cost of $100,000. The trans-continental trains would back out of the Central Station and use the Parry Sound branch of the G.T.R. for a short distance to connect with the C.P.R. main line west of the city; the Gatineau trains would run in over the Alexandra Bridge, and the Prescott trains would run into the Central Station by way of Chaudiere Junction. The 1915-04-20 Ottawa Journal follow-up reports the arrangement was rumored to take effect June 1, though unconfirmed by either railway's local offices. | Ottawa Journal 1915-04-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1920-03-24 | Changes costing some $60,000 are underway at the Central station: the train shed does not currently cover track No. 1, beside the Rideau Canal, and is being extended to the edge of the canal to cover it. This is the track used by through trains west and east, and when the changes are complete passengers can embark and disembark in comfort. The steel work is being done by the Dominion Bridge Co., starting about April 15th, with the entire work expected finished about June 15th, under the supervision of Mr. G.C. McCue, superintendent of bridges and buildings. As track No. 2 is immediately beside track No. 1, no trains will be allowed on Track 2 while a train is loading or unloading passengers on Track 1. | Ottawa Citizen 1920-03-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1920-04-09 | Jack Creighton, of Galetta, and Pete Quesnel, of Casselman, employed by the G.T.R. in the work of enlarging the train sheds at the Central Station terminal, were both seriously injured when a scaffold on which they were standing gave way and precipitated them to the ground. Quesnel fell on a pile of loosened boulders lying immediately below the scaffold and received painful injuries to his jaw and head as well as bruises about the body, while Creighton sustained a fractured hip. Both men were removed to St. Luke's hospital. | Ottawa Citizen 1920-04-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1920-05-17 | The steel work of the extension of the Central station train shed, which is being widened westward to the edge of the Rideau canal, has been completed, and today the work of the concrete men will start. The shed will not be completed for another month. When finished, passengers who formerly had to alight in the open, unless the train were run past the sheds and backed in, may now alight in the building the same as local trains. The improvement has cost a great many thousand dollars, but in added comfort and safety, railway officials state, will well warrant the extra expenditure. | Ottawa Citizen 1920-05-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1920-09-29 | The C.P.R. train from Vancouver to Montreal, pulling out of Ottawa's Union Station at 7 o'clock, was held up for about 45 minutes when the two end cars jumped the rails immediately under the Laurier Avenue bridge and travelled in that manner for about fifty feet before the train could be stopped. The train had not yet gathered speed; Engineer Geo. Gorman applied the brakes as soon as he saw the situation, and no damage occurred. Passengers, including women and children, were transferred to the other coaches before the train proceeded. The cause was not yet discovered, investigation being made more difficult since the derailment occurred immediately where the C.P.R. and the G.T.R. change ownership of the track. | Ottawa Citizen 1920-09-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1921-05-13≥ | By 13 May 1921 (the issue date), the paper reported: Mr. H. W. Lennox, manager of the Dominion Express Company in Ottawa, "has introduced at the Central Station a gasoline truck for removing express matter from the trains. The company has purchased a new Edison three wheeled tractor with a capacity for twenty tons, and already this tractor has proven that it can do the work of a large number of men. The tractor was used yesterday for the first time." Railway not named in the item; filed on Ottawa Central Station on the strength of Churcher's Alexandria tag. | Ottawa Citizen 1921-05-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1924-07-07≥ | By 7 July 1924 (the issue date), the paper reported: Bert Robinson, porter on the Ottawa-Toronto C.N.R. train service, "who was yesterday injured in the Central station yards when he fell off his train and was dragged a considerable distance, is recovering from his injuries... The car from which Robinson fell was being backed into the Central Station yard to be washed." | Ottawa Citizen 1924-07-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1926-10-28 | "11 car special CNR train for Queen Marie of Rumania arrives from Toronto and is backed into Union station at 10.30." The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Journal 1926-10-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1928-05-14≥ | By 14 May 1928 (the issue date), the paper reported: The Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways "are carrying out improvements" to the Central Station. A reconstruction of the eastern wall of the Rideau canal, part of the station, "has recently been completed by the two railways": a concrete wall 2,900 feet long and 16 1/2 feet high, using about 6,000 cubic yards of concrete, much of it poured in zero weather. The wall from Sparks street to the train shed was raised and the wall of the train shed itself improved, and the main tracks within the station were changed temporarily. | Ottawa Citizen 1928-05-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1929-08-21 | "The biggest engine ever to come in to Ottawa hauled the biggest train ever to come in to Ottawa today when Canadian National engine Number 6153 drew 18 steel coaches and a baggage car into the Union Station." The train brought 2,300 members of the Canadian National Railways Literary and Scientific Institute to the exhibition; 85 extra coaches came into the station that day. The engine was 92 feet long. The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Citizen 1929-08-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1929-09-04≥ | By 4 September 1929 (the issue date), the paper reported: Twelve-year-old Maurice Boivin, "attempting to dive from the top of the train sheds at the Union Station to the Rideau canal shortly before five o'clock yesterday afternoon, crashed through a glass skylight, fell 20 feet and landed inside the station on number four track." He had a broken arm and other injuries. The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Journal 1929-09-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1930-12-03 | "The noise of chisels and hammers resounded through the Union Station building today, as workmen commenced to dig up the concrete to remove the old iron gates that guard the entrance to trains. The gates are to be replaced by a glass-enclosed entrance similar to the one at the Windsor Station in Montreal." The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Citizen 1930-12-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1931-01-12 | "There is considerable construction work being undertaken at the Union Station. The new glass-enclosed gates at the entrance to trains are rapidly nearing completion. The iron structure has already been erected and part of the glass has been installed. In addition, new marble steps are being constructed to replace those leading to the ground level, and the canopy over the main entrance to the station is being repaired." The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Citizen 1931-01-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1931-12-12≥ | By 12 December 1931 (the issue date), the paper reported: A Canadian National train, engine 6026, ran into the rear of the Canadian Pacific Montreal-Vancouver train in the Laurier avenue yards "about 9.15 o'clock last night", injuring ten or eleven people, among them Fire Chief J. E. Lemieux; the C.P.R. observation car was lifted off its truck. Both trains had left Montreal at 7.15 and were due at Ottawa at 9.15 and 9.16; at Deep Cut the trains leave their own tracks and come in on the single main line, and at the Laurier avenue bridge are switched again. The C.N.R. engineer, H. H. Legate, was confronted with a blanket of steam from the train ahead. The C.N.R. superintendent H. C. White said "the trains had been running on the single track for 25 years. This was the first time an accident of this nature had occurred." Filed on Ottawa Central Station as the nearest entity to the Laurier avenue yards (inference). The 15 and 17 December Journal editorial and letter about the timetables are opinion and are not filed. The Board of Railway Commissioners hearing of February 1932 is filed separately. | Ottawa Citizen 1931-12-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1931-12-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1931-12-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1932-02-18 | The Board of Railway Commissioners "is hearing representations of counsel for both railways at a sitting today" to fix responsibility and the payment for damages from the collision between a C.N.R. and a C.P.R. train in the Ottawa yards on the night of Friday, 11 December. "Revision of railway regulations may result from the hearing", said Chief Commissioner Justice C. P. Fullerton. The sittings were private; on 20 February they were adjourned until Tuesday, the Board acting "as a board of arbitration between the two railway companies". Follows the collision of 11 December 1931 (filed on the same entity). | Ottawa Citizen 1932-02-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1932-02-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1938-08-30 | "When the Toronto train arrived in Ottawa on Tuesday, Donat Bertrand, C.N.R. gate attendant, noticed a rod rider fast asleep on the tender of the engine. 'Wake up! First call for breakfast,' he shouted." "Scarcely a train pulls into Union station without a rod-rider these days. Station officials say it is useless to arrest them for the jails would be full." The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Citizen 1938-08-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1939-05-04≤ | From 4 May 1939 (the issue date), the paper announced: "For the departure of Their Majesties on May 20, the Union Station will be closed between 3.30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, Superintendent J.A. Rogers of the C.N.R. announced this morning." The last train to arrive at 2.55 p.m. would be the C.N.R. train from Montreal; the last to leave the C.P.R. for Pembroke at 3.30 p.m.; between 3.30 and 6 only railway officials and the official party would be admitted. The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). An announcement of arrangements to come. | Ottawa Citizen 1939-05-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1942-11-11 | The newsstand in the concourse of the Union station, about 20 years old, "disappeared on Tuesday when Canadian National Railway officials, in an effort to speed the entrance and exit of passengers, tore it down and began construction of a door in the wall against which it stood." Rail traffic was so heavy that attendants had difficulty avoiding jams; the new doorway gives an exit to the platform along the west side of the concourse. The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Journal 1942-11-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1942-12-10 | "At Union station owing to increased traffic and congestion at the gateways to and from the tracks, it has been found necessary to provide an additional gateway on the west side of the concourse leading to tracks 1 and 2. Officials say that of late it has been almost impossible to regulate traffic through the present gateways, especially from evening trains. Construction of the new gateway is proceeding." The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Journal 1942-12-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1942-12-23 | Loudspeakers replaced the station train caller at Union Station "this morning" when holiday travellers thronged to the early trains: "Instead of the long drawn station-to-station chant of one of the employes, with his 'all abo-o-o-o-o-ard', the throng heard their stations being blared forth from loudspeakers." The three speakers were on trial in the Christmas rush and, if they proved their worth, were expected to be permanent. The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Journal 1942-12-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1945-10-18 | The railway "threw open their yards to the Legion reception committee for the serving of refreshments and hot coffee to repatriated liberated British prisoners-of-war homeward bound from Japanese prison camps." "More than 800 prisoners-of-war were greeted by the mayor Stanley Lewis and the Legion and Legionettes" as two 15-car trains arrived at the Union station yards at 12.25 and 1.15. The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Citizen 1945-10-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1946-08-22≥ | By 22 August 1946 (the issue date), the paper reported: Engineer Edward K. Schlieske of Ottawa, bringing a Canadian National passenger train into Union Station on Tuesday night, found that his daughter-in-law, a war bride, had arrived on his own train: "No, she came in on Number 1," he said. "Oh no she didn't, she came in on your train." The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Citizen 1946-08-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1947-06-05≤ | 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. The item says "C.N.R. Central Station". An announcement of arrangements to come. | Montreal Gazette 1947-06-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1947-06-20 | "The greatest influx of visitors in Ottawa's history was in full swing at the Union Station today, where only this morning, 5,900 Marian Congress pilgrims were brought to the Capital in seven special CN and CPR trains." The specials began rolling in at eight o'clock; "Today's schedule calls for 12 regular CN and 19 regular CPR trains", and at least 20 more specials were to arrive between midnight and early next morning. The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). The station was shared with the C.P.R. | Ottawa Citizen 1947-06-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1947-06-23≥ | By 23 June 1947 (the issue date), the paper reported: Union Station "last night" was "packed to the rafters" with thousands of Marian Congress visitors returning home: "Only those whose trains were due to leave the station within the next half-hour were allowed to enter." By five o'clock "nearly 80,000 people had been handled by exhausted officials", on 80 specials and regular trains; there was "neither accidents nor confusion". Eighteen C.N.R. and 11 C.P.R. special Congress trains left, the C.N.R. trains standing on sidings behind the Besserer street post office and the station power plant. The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). Shared with the C.P.R. | Ottawa Citizen 1947-06-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1947-06-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1948-07-02≥ | By 2 July 1948 (the issue date), the paper reported: About 120 boys left "yesterday morning" for the Ottawa Boys Clubs camp at Mink Lake, two special cars on the C.N.R. Eganville train, which "was pulling out of the Union Station" when a father and mother and a Citizen photographer sprinted down the platform with a 10-year-old camper; "a soft-hearted conductor signalled to a stop." The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Citizen 1948-07-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1952-02-28 | Governor-General designate Vincent Massey "arrived with a 'bang' at Union Station this morning. His special six-car train backed into the station too fast and crashed into a special disembarking platform erected for the arrival. No one was injured, but a few CNR officials were flustered." The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Citizen 1952-02-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1952-05-14 | Percy L. Bonner, chief dispatcher of the C.N.R. Ottawa division, and his staff worked in a three-roomed office "near the Besserer Street entrance of the Union Station", at the top of a long flight of iron stairs, issuing the orders that move all trains in and out of Ottawa; Bonner had 39 years of railroading. Photographs showed freight No. 402 bound for Montreal, hauled by two diesels and leaving the Bank Street station, taking orders on a hoop, and the "Clock" from which division watches are set. The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Citizen 1952-05-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1955-02-04 | Oswald Patrick George, born in Eganville, was "stepping out of service with the Canadian National Railways this evening" after 21 years as station master at the Union Station, where "literally millions of people have arrived and left"; he greeted visitors including Churchill, Eden, Truman and Roosevelt. With nearly 50 years with the C.N.R. and the Grand Trunk, he went as a brakeman as far as Depot Harbor, was yardmaster at Coteau in the thirties, and was named station master at Ottawa when the depression ended. The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Journal 1955-02-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1958-08-11≥ | By 11 August 1958 (the issue date), the paper reported: "An FDC suggestion, some months ago, that a new $5,000,000 Union Station be built near Hurdman's Bridge, was turned down by the CNR and CPR within the past few days", the proposed site being two miles from the present station opposite the Chateau Laurier. It was accepted that Union Station would not move to Walkley Road, 7.5 miles from the Chateau, for 25 or 40 years. The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Citizen 1958-08-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1959-07-02≥ | By 2 July 1959 (the issue date), the paper reported: "In a driving rainstorm that sent water cascading through the leaky canopy of Union Station, the Queen and Prince Philip left by train for Hamilton last night, after a 26 hour visit in Ottawa." Governor-General Massey and Prime Minister Diefenbaker met them at the Besserer Street entrance; "CNR engineer Floyd Goodfellow took the 16-car royal train away with a whisper." The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Citizen 1959-07-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1966-07-08≤ | From 8 July 1966 (the issue date), the paper announced: Tenders were invited, to close at 3.00 p.m. on 21 July 1966, by the National Capital Commission "for the demolition of train sheds only at the rear of the Union Station and the Canadian National Express and Baggage offices Besserer Street, Ottawa". The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). An announcement of the demolition. | Ottawa Citizen 1966-07-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1966-07-31 | "All passenger trains to and from Ottawa will operate from the new Ottawa Station at Queensway and Alta Vista commencing Sunday, July 31st." The Citizen of 1 August reported that "Gone now are the trains through Centre Town into the old Union Station, which closed down early Sunday morning. About 300 people were on hand to see the last train leave the station. Shortly after that, the station was officially handed over to the National Capital Commission." The tracks were expected to be lifted almost immediately to make way for the parkway, and the Canadian Pacific Railway's Rideau was the first train into the new station. The item says Union Station; filed on Ottawa Central Station because the 1922 papers use the two names for the same station (inference). | Ottawa Citizen 1966-07-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1966-08-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
Practices
2 facts
| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1911-12-06 | C.P.R. and G.T.R. reach agreement on use of Union station. | Ottawa Journal 1911-12-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1912-02-07 | The Railway Commission heard arguments from the Grand Trunk and the C.P.R. over what the C.P.R. should pay for part use and privileges at the Central Station, and adjourned the case until March 6th to fix a schedule of new rates. Mr. W.H. Biggar for the Grand Trunk explained that under a former agreement the government had made with the Canada Atlantic, the land was leased to the C.A.R. on condition that other railroad companies be given reasonable consideration to enter the station, and the C.P.R.'s present rate of $6,000 a year for use of the through line was fixed under that agreement. In 1905 the Grand Trunk bought the Canada Atlantic, and in 1907 obtained from the government a practically perpetual lease on the property for $80,000 plus a yearly rental, which Mr. Biggar argued gave the Grand Trunk practical ownership of the property, entitling it to charge the C.P.R. more. The majority of the commissioners judged that the agreement the government had made with the Canada Atlantic was dead, and that the C.P.R. must now enter into a new basis of terms and rates; Commissioner D'Arcy Scott, in a minority judgment, ruled that the C.P.R. should pay on a basis of cost rather than valuation. The dispute concerns the current (1912) rate the C.P.R. pays the Grand Trunk, which inherited and now controls the Central Station property; the original 1880s-1907 Canada Atlantic agreement is recounted only as background to that dispute. | Ottawa Journal 1912-02-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |