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| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1896-01-03 | The old C.A.R. depot on Elgin street is being converted into a company store house. | Ottawa Journal 1896-01-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-01-09 | The old "C.A.R." signs at the Elgin street depot are all being removed and "O.A. & P.S." just up in their places. It is the intention to use that place for O.A. & P.S. freight. | Ottawa Free Press 1896-01-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1897-11-22 | A test of the Stempel fire extinguisher, was to be held this afternoon at the old C.A.R. station before the officials of the C.A.R. Announcement only. 'The old C.A.R. station' on Elgin Street is read as the Elgin Street Depot. | Ottawa Journal 1897-11-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-01-07 | At the Elgin street depot of the C.A.R. Co., operations for raising the frames of the new car shops are in full swing. About 40 men are laying the tracks into the building, which will be completed in almost a month. A portion of the old freight house has been torn away to make way for the new building. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-01-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-02-07 | At the Elgin street depot the new shop is nearly completed. The walls have been grouted with concrete and men are employed tearing away the old freight sheds. The machinery for the building will arrive shortly. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-02-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-03-11 | At the Elgin street depot the car shops are nearly completed and in a week or so everything will be in readiness for the turning out of first class cars. The men in the mechanical workshops are erecting first and second class passenger coaches, fixing engines and doing general repair work in order to meet the demand for cars. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-03-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1901-01-11 | Military train arrived at Elgin Street at 12.20 noon and the official reception took place at the Drill Hall. The 'D' Batterymen arrived at the Elgin street depot to-day at twelve twenty, noon. Major Hurdman and Lieut. E.W.B. Morrison, were both looking splendid... Detachments from the Guards, Rifles, Dragoons and second Field Battery attended and lined up on Elgin street near the tracks. Reception for D Battery returning from South African War service. | Ottawa Journal 1901-01-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1903-09-14 | While unloading a lot of cattle for the Central Canada Fair, the staff of Senator Edward's Rockland Farm lost a valuable heifer as a result of the unsuitable arrangements at the Canada Atlantic yards at the Elgin Street station. The heifer, when she got out of the car, started to run and succeeded in passing the boy who was at the point where the cattle could get on the tracks. She ran across the yard and in front of a shunting train which struck the animal and knocked her into the mud hole where the excavation is being made for the subway; she died shortly thereafter from the injuries received. Exhibitors said their sheep had run right under the shunting trains at the depot. President Hutchinson explained he had had the track site surveyed and got an estimate from Mr. Booth as to the cost of laying a siding, but it had been dropped for want of funds; it will cost in the vicinity of $7,000 to lay the siding to a point about one hundred yards from the main gateway on Bank Street. | Ottawa Journal 1903-09-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |