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| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1896-07-23 | A round house is being built, side tracks being laid down and preparations being made for the necessary buildings. (The Ottawa Journal of the same date: the company are 'erecting a round house laying tracks and preparing generally for the removal of the divisional point from Barry's Bay to that station.') Madawaska Crossing / Madawaska. | Ottawa Free Press 1896-07-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1896-07-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-07-29 | A new station and a large round house will be among the first things to be constructed. (Almonte Gazette, 31 July: 'A new station and a large roundhouse are to be erected there immediately.') Announcement; Mr. Tomlinson, contractor, was leaving to begin the work at Madawaska. | Ottawa Journal 1896-07-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Almonte Gazette 1896-07-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-11-03 | The new roundhouse of the O.A. & P.S. Ry. built at Madawaska, the new divisional point on the line, was used for the first time yesterday. It is a frame building on stone foundations and can stall five locomotives. | Ottawa Journal 1896-11-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1906-10-05 | Evidently it is the intention of the Grand Trunk Railway Co. to build up the village of Madawaska. For some time past rumours have been current that the divisional point was to be removed from Madawaska to Barry's Bay, but the present action of the G.T.R. is allaying the fears of the villagers. A gang of one hundred and fourteen men, besides several teams, are now engaged in the construction of a new concrete roundhouse near the site of the old building of five stalls, which has been inadequate to fulfil the demands of the increased traffic. | Mercury 1906-10-05(Quoting the Pembroke Observer. Transcribed by Coli...) | |
| 1907-01-25 | Officials of the Grand Trunk Railway say that a new round house is to be built at Depot Harbor similar to the one just finished at Madawaska, and the work is likely to start soon. In the way of equipment, the Madawaska one is very fine, there being thirteen stalls for engines, a turntable with some of the most modern mechanical devices, and a complete coaling plant. Engines drawing trains, both from Ottawa to Madawaska, and from the latter point to Depot Harbor, are now coaling at the new coaling plant. The new structures are practically all of concrete and steel. A matching roundhouse planned for Depot Harbor is not yet a separate structure on the site. | Mercury 1907-01-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1933 | Madawaska is a "ghost town": "the skeleton of the once-busy Grand Trunk roundhouse that held 35 locomotives when Madawaska was a division point on the railroad, built by J.R. Booth. The town's population shrank by 200 when a section of the road was ripped up and the roundhouse closed in 1933." | Ottawa Citizen 1952-11-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |