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| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1898-12-02 | The Canada Atlantic Railway company are tearing down a number of the small store rooms in the Elgin street and on their site will erect a large shop for the erection of freight cars for the spring trade. About five hundred cars will be constructed this winter. Filed at the maintainer's direction on the entity created for this. | Ottawa Citizen 1898-12-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-12-17 | At the Elgin street depot everything is in readiness for the new car shop which will be erected there, and operations will commence in a week or so. Several cars of new machinery arrived yesterday and the remainder will be here in a week or so. Considerable delay was experienced with the machinery, as special plant was required for its manufacture, and this could not be had readily. A large number of hands will be required to work on this building, as it will be rushed up without any possible delay. ... Mr. Booth, in conversation with the Free Press, said: 'Very few people realize the extent of the work now going on ... This work will employ upwards of 600 men during the winter and will be a great boon to the working classes of this city.' Filed at the maintainer's direction on the entity created for this. Announcement of work to begin. | Ottawa Free Press 1898-12-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-01-07 | The work of putting glass in the skylights at the car shops at the Deep Cut is almost completed, but until the apparatus for heating the building arrives no further work will be accomplished. Churcher's place column reads 'Roundhouse'; the item is about the car shops at the Deep Cut. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-01-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-01-14 | The work of erecting the frame for the new car shops at the Elgin street depot will be completed by the beginning of next week. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-01-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-02-15 | The Canada Atlantic railway car shops are completed and work is started on 500 cars including grain, refrigerator and cattle cars to meet the constantly growing traffic on the Booth system. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-02-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-02-21 | Mr. Andrew Holland's device for acetylene locomotive headlights was given a successful test in the C.A.R. car shops last evening. Mr. Holland installed his device and compared it with a Well's kerosene burner. The test was a great success and demonstrated the superiority of acetylene gas as an illuminant particularly for locomotive headlights. ... The C.A.R. officials were delighted with the light and were well satisfied with the test. | Ottawa Journal 1899-02-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-02-24 | A new painting machine has been adopted by the Canada Atlantic Railway for use in their work shops. By its use, a box car can be painted in from 15 to 30 minutes, while a man would take about 4 hours to do the same work. The apparatus was given a satisfactory trial yesterday by Mr. C.A. Bruyere, foreman in the C.A.R. paint shops. ... The machine will be employed by the Canada Atlantic Company on box cars, the outside of vans, and the trucks of passenger cars. Place given as Ottawa East, but the shops named are the work shops generally; filed on the Elgin Car Shops entity created for the freight car works. | Ottawa Journal 1899-02-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-04-29 | At the Stewarton depot the machinery in the new car building shop is in full operation. The demand on the line for freight cars is increasing, and pretty extensive work is contemplated. The construction and repair of a number of fine passenger coaches is under way. 'Stewarton depot' is read as the Elgin Car Shops. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-04-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-07-15 | Everybody at the car works on Elgin street is busy and about seven new refrigerator and cattle cars were turned out last week. Master Mechanic James Tremble and his gang of men are erecting a new derrick near the site of the old station, and the boiler house for heating of a large lumber drying kiln, has been built. Several new pieces of track for the accommodation of freight cars are being put down, and some heavy consignments of iron for car building have been received. | Ottawa Free Press 1899-07-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-08-26 | The Canada Atlantic railway will not rebuild the car shops at the foot of Elgin street which were destroyed by fire a few weeks ago. The new shops erected this summer at Ottawa East and Stewarton will provide adequate accommodation and facilities for manufacturing purposes for the present. It is proposed to commence the construction of another large building at Ottawa East adjoining the round house and when the structure is completed the one at Stewarton will be rented for a manufactory or used for general storage purposes. The 'destroyed by fire' car shops here are the old Elgin Street roundhouse fire of 4 August; the Elgin Car Shops proper had not burned, per this item's own account that Stewarton's building would be rented out, not rebuilt. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-08-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1899-09-30 | The Canada Atlantic railway is turning out from 16 to 20 freight cars per week from its shops at the bottom of Elgin street. The facility with which the cars are manufactured is surprising and is accounted for largely by the experienced hands and the most improved machinery that is employed. ... Motive power for the shops is now furnished by electricity and it is working most satisfactory. A three hundred horsepower motor has just been placed in position in the Rideau roundhouse. | Ottawa Citizen 1899-09-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1902-03-22 | Hot Night fire in Canada Atlantic yards. Car repair shops and 3 passenger cars destroyed in an hour. Loss about $45,000. The old wooden car repair shops of the Canada Atlantic Railway, situated east of Elgin street at the terminus of Catharine street, were destroyed by fire between ten and eleven o'clock. The building, one of the first erected when the C.A.R. was established here about 15 years ago, with more recent extensions, covered an area of about 10,000 square feet. Destroyed along with it were two first-class coaches valued at about $7,500 each, one baggage car worth $7,000, five freight cars and a wrecking train, and a snowplow. Several large freight engines standing alongside were not damaged. Mr. C. Jackson Booth, president of the C.A.R., was on hand shortly after the first alarm. He estimated the loss at between $40,000 and $45,000, covered by policies in the Home Fire Insurance Company of New York. The old round house adjacent had been destroyed by fire about three years earlier. All that now remains of the original Canada Atlantic buildings is the old station house on the west side of Elgin Street. The burning of the shops will temporarily throw some men out of work, but they will be required in the new shops at Ottawa East. | Ottawa Citizen 1902-03-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1902-03-22(Fuller corroborating report (includes a sketch). T...) |