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The following is the Abstract and Table of Contents from Overland Transport in the Rideau Region, 1800-1930, Manuscript Report 424 by Edward Forbes Bush, Parks Canada, 1979. Republished by Friends of the Rideau as digital book DB-MR424, 2011:
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This study traces the history of land transportation within the Rideau region. The first chapter covers road development from early pioneer wagon-tracks to the inception of the provincial highway system in the mid-1890s. The second takes up the narrative from the coming of the railways in the 1850s. Three regional railways, two diagonal trunk lines, along with a half-dozen abortive projects are dealt with. With the absorption of the three regional lines and their subsequent relegation to branch line status by two of the nation-wide systems, the third section of the study follows, being the account of the building of the provincial highway network with particular reference to the Rideau region. Thus is depicted in microcosm the story of land transportation throughout Canada. Insofar as a paucity of concurrent statistics allows, comparison is made between the passenger and freight traffic of the three regional railways and the Rideau Canal. Abstract ROADS IN THE RIDEAU REGION: WAGON-TRACK TO TURNPIKE, 1793-1890 Early Settlement in the Rideau Region Pioneer Road-building: Corduroy to Macadam, 1793-1848 Early Survey Systems Pioneer Road-building and English Precedent Pioneers and Wagon-tracks 1783-1848 Critics and Expedients 1830-40 The Toll-road Old Roads and a New Board of Works 1841-48 The Richmond Road: Richmond Landing to Perth,1817-24 Perth Road: Perth to Kingston 1824 The Brockville-Perth Road 1815-51 Market Access Roads The Economy of the Region Pioneer Roads Road Development at Mid-century Market Towns and Entrepôts Lumbering and Mining Roads - Farm Market Access, Lumber, Mining Toll-road Companies The Baldwin Act and the Joint Stock Companies Act 1849 The Bytown & Nepean Road Company 1851-1922 The Ottawa & Gloucester Road Company The Kingston & Perth Road Company 1850 The Bedford & Loughborough Road 1865-92 Horse-drawn Vehicles Rideau Region Stage Lines THE COMING OF THE RAILWAY TO THE RIDEAU REGION Steam Railways and Enabling Legislation Railroads in the Rideau Region The Bytown & Prescott Railway 1850-84 Surveys Financing and Construction Opening of the Bytown & Prescott Railway The Ottawa & Prescott Railway in Receivership The St. Lawrence & Ottawa Railway 1867-84 CPR Amalgamation The St. Lawrence & Ottawa Railway in Retrospect The Brockville & Ottawa Railway 1853-78 A Time of Troubles The Brockville Tunnel 1854-61 "A breath of air has passed over the dry bones..." Opening of the Line Not Out of the Bush Yet 1859-74 Brockville & Ottawa's Operations: The Final Years 1865-77 The Canada Central Railway: Amalgamation 1861-78 Acquisition by the CPR: The Brockville Branch The Brockville, Westport and North-western 1873-1912 The Brockville, Westport and Sault Ste. Marie Railway 1884-1903 An Old Story: Bankruptcy and Receivership The Brockville, Westport and North-western Railway 1903-06 New York Syndicate Confirmed 1903 Launching of the BW & NW., 1903-05 Old Railway: New Company 1903-06 The Extension that Never Was 1903-07 Last Days of the Brockville & Westport 1906-14 Mackenzie & Mann Take-over 1910-14 The Brockville & Westport: An Appreciation The Ontario & Quebec Railway 1872-84 et seq. The Canadian Northern Ontario Railway 1906-14 'Paper' Railways Kingston, Smith's Falls & Ottawa Railway 1887-1902 The Morrisburg & Ottawa Electric 1908-19 The Ottawa and St. Lawrence Electric Railway 1909-15 The Ottawa, Rideau Valley & Brockville Railway 1910-13 The Ottawa, Rideau Lakes & Kingston Railway 1911-14 Sundry 'Paper Railways' Conclusion THE RIDEAU REGION AND MODERN HIGHWAY DEVELOPMENT Steam-carriages and the Internal Combustion Engine The Passing of the Privately-owned Toll-road 1889-1914 Towards a Provincial Highway System 1896-1937 The Provincial Instructor in Road-making et seq. The King's Highway 1914-37 The King's Highway in the Rideau Region 1915-28 Highway Transport Conclusion Appendix A. Revenues and Expenditures for the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway, Together with Classified Freight Tonnages. Appendix B. Revenues and Expenditures for the Brockville and Ottawa Railway, Together with Classified Freight Tonnages. Appendix C. Revenues, Operating Expenses and Classified Freight Tonnages for the Brockville, Westport and Sault Ste. Marie, later the Brockville, Westport and North-western Railway. Appendix D. Population Returns Rideau Towns, Derived from the Published Census. Appendix E. The Classification of Steam Locomotives. Appendix F. Report of Major Eliot, 68th Regiment of Foot, on the Road from Richmond Landing to Kingston, July 1824. Graphs 1 The passenger trade: St. Lawrence and Ottawa and the Brockville and Ottawa railways. 2 Freight Tonnage: St. Lawrence and Ottawa and Brockville and Ottawa railways and Rideau Canal. 3 Passenger Trade: Brockville and Westport Railway and the Rideau Canal. 4 Freight Tonnage: Brockville and Westport Railway and the Rideau Canal. Endnotes Glossary Sources Cited Maps Map 1 Early trunk roads in the Rideau Region Map 2 Railways in the Rideau Region Illustrations 1 Section of 1895 map of Ontario, showing counties, townships and railways in the Rideau Region. 2 The travails of pioneer transportation. 3 Combination wagon-sleigh. 4 Stage-coach. 5 Four-horse stage, 1899. 6 Hotel bus, Carleton Place, circa 1910. 7 Farm buggy, near Almonte. 8 Etching of a street scene in Brockville. 9 Sketch of Perth hotel, with stage-coach in foreground. 10 Sketch of Queens Hotel, Prescott. 11 Brophy House, Gananoque. 12 Kingston market scene, circa 1900. 13 Smiths Falls street scene, n.d. 14 The Ottawa, Bytown and Prescott Railway, 1862. 15 Advertisement for Ottawa and Prescott Railway 1864-65. 16 St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway station, MacTaggart Street, Ottawa. 17 Sketch of a Brockville and Westport passenger train, n.d. 18 $1,000 Bond Brockville, Westport and North-Western Railway Co., due 1st Dec. 1923. 19 Broad Street CPR Station, Ottawa, circa 1890. 20 Entrance to CPR Broad Street Station, Ottawa, n.d. 21 Arrival of the first Canadian Northern Train, Ottawa, 5 Dec. 1909. 22 Ottawa Union Station, n.d. 23 Rideau Canal and Ottawa Union Station, n.d. 24 The Ottawa-Metcalfe bus. 1916. 25 Overland Transport in the 1870s. 26 Railway passing Hurdman residence near Ottawa, 1879. 27 St. Lawrence and Ottawa's Little Portland engine, Circa 1873. 28 St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway Engine Lady Lisgar, 1879. |