| March 1911, No. 157 | The Railway and Marine World (Toronto) | Page 231, col. 1 |
Canadian Northern Ry, construction, etc.
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Canadian Northern Ontario Ry.—The Board of Railway Commissioners has approved a revised location for a section of the line under construction in St. Andrews parish, Que., authorized the company to build an overhead bridge across the C.P.R. near Jacques Cartier Jct., mileage 49.3, south from Hawkesbury, Ont.; to lay tracks across various highways and streets, and to build bridges over creeks, on the line under construction between Toronto and Ottawa.
Plans have been filed showing the route of the proposed entrance into North Toronto for the line to Buffalo. The new line is a prolongation of the Electric Development Co.'s right of way from where it ceases at Davenport Road, north of the C.P.R., to McLennan Ave. Several streets will be closed, and the tracks will be elevated between Avenue Road and Yonge St., at both of which points subways will be built. The route from Toronto will follow the Electric Development Co.'s right of way as far as possible. The entrance into Hamilton is at present undecided, but it is said that a route paralleling the G.T.R. from Burlington to the Valley Inn has been laid out. No plans have been filed with the city authorities, although the mayor was advised Feb. 4 that they were ready, neither has any report been received from the Board of Railway Commissioners' Chief Engineer, to whom the matter was referred some time ago. Various properties have been purchased near the old N. and N.W. Ry. at Ferrie St., Queen and Greig streets, by persons said to represent the company.
The Electric Development Co. has a right of way from Hamilton to Cainsville, and the C.N.O.R. has filed plans for an entrance into Brantford over this route. (See Toronto, Niagara and Western Ry., Jan., pg. 61.)
Surveys are reported completed for a line from Rideau Jct., on the Toronto-Ottawa line, about six miles southwest from Ottawa, to Port Arthur, effecting a junction on the way with the line from Toronto, via Sudbury, now terminating at Gowganda Jct. The route laid out is said to cross the Ottawa River at Fitzroy Harbor, and to return to the Ontario side of the river at Portage du Port, entering Pembroke from the rear, and on to Petawawa, skirting the south end of the military reserve, and following the valley of the Petawawa River through a section of Algonquin Forest reserve to Cedar Lake, then crossing a low divide to the collecting basin of the Amable du Fond. The route is right across country to Wistiwasing, where a settled country is again reached. Near here a branch line will diverge to Key Inlet, while the main line will pass Callander and Nipissing Jct., to North Bay. On leaving North Bay the line surveyed ascends the Sturgeon and Kapikotiwia rivers, crosses the Wahnapitel river, and on to a junction with the line now in operation to Toronto, near Capreol. From this point the line proceeds -westward, getting on the Hudson Bay slope, and crossing various rivers, passing within 30 miles of the great fall of the Pic River, and rounding the head of Long Lake, it heads southwest for Lake Nipigon, and then to Port Arthur.
Replying to questions in the Ontario Legislature, Feb. 8, the Premier said the company had not made application for an extension of time for the building of the line from Sellwood Jct. to Port Arthur, for which the Legislature had voted 4,000 acres of land a mile, the line to be completed in 1913. There had been completed 30.65 miles of the line; an additional 15 miles had been graded, and some 300 miles of location surveys had been approved 'by the Board of Railway Commissioners. These replies apply to the second portion of the route described above.
A deputation from Parry Sound waited on the Ontario Government Feb. 3 and requested that the Legislature be asked to guarantee the C.N.O.R. bonds for a line from Parry Sound to North Bay, about 75 miles. The Premier promised consideration.
The city solicitor of Port Arthur states that he was advised by Sir Donald D. Mann that construction would be started at that city easterly in the spring, and that the line would be completed as far as Nipigon by the end of the year.