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| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1893-10-06 | The O.A. & P.S. station at Kinburn was built in the summer and fall of 1893. On July 14 the company was building a station 40 x 20 feet, with a force of eight men under Mr. Tomlinson of Ottawa (who had the contract for all the stations between Ottawa and Arnprior), and a large number of men were grading and levelling the yard and putting in sidings and switches; by July 28 the station was nearly completed and expected to be "the handsomest building in the village"; by August 3 and again August 18 it was reported nearing completion, then about finished, with grounds located for a freight shed and granary. In mid-September the yard was being gravelled and the roadways to the station and B.W. Dunnett's elevator graded; by October 2 the trains ran with some regularity and a station master was in constant attendance. On August 18 fifteen men worked a Sunday, and twenty-six the Sunday before, lifting a sunken trestle near the station. | Mercury 1893-07-14(Kinburn column. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher i...),Mercury 1893-07-28(Kinburn column. Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher i...),Ottawa Journal 1893-08-03(Mr. Mountain on the stations at Kinburn and Galett...),Ottawa Journal 1893-08-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1893-08-18(The sunken trestle. Transcribed by Colin J. Church...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-15(Yard gravelling and roadway grading. Transcribed b...),Almonte Gazette 1893-10-06(Kinburn Notes, October 2. Transcribed by Colin J. ...) | |
| 1960-01-21≥ | By 21 January 1960 (the issue date), the paper reported: The successful tenderer for "the demolition and removal of the CNR station building at Kinburn" was Samuel John McLean, announced by superintendent E. P. Burns. The frame station "was built in 1893", 79 feet by 20 feet three inches with 20-foot walls, a pitch roof of asphalt shingles, a brick chimney and an attached summer kitchen 10 by 36 feet. Filed on Kinburn Depot on the assumption that the 1893 C.N.R. station at Kinburn is that building. | Arnprior Chronicle 1960-01-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |