Over the years, a large number of Ottawa
area railway structures have been destroyed by fire. What follows
is a list of those we have been able to identify. They are shown
in alphabetical order by location. Information in this page has been developed from: Members of the Circle and others Ottawa area newspapersby line by year A listing of regulatory orders, orders in council etc., relating to the railways of Ottawa Colin Churcher's Research Notes from Library and Archives Canada A review of Ottawa area items from the Railway and Shipping World Bytown Railway Society, Branchline.Alexandria GTR station burned 14 July 1915 Findings_Fire1915Alexandria.html Alexandria CNR station partially demolished in a derailment 25 June 1929 Wreck%20Details/1929Alexandria.html Alfred Centre CNR station - 9 March 1919. Findings_FireAlfred1919.html Apple Hill CPR station burned in wreckage of collision between two freight trains - 6 September 1916 Wreck%20Details/1916AppleHill.html Athens CNR station - 12 March 1942. {Steve Hunter}{Bob Moore} Findings_FireAthens1942.html Aultsville CNR station building and express shed damaged by a derailment - 24 November 1929 Wreck%20Details/1929Aultsville.html Aylmer CPR station - April 1891. Findings_FireAylmer1891.html Aylmer CPR station - 24 November 1926. Findings_FireAylmer1926.html Aylmer CPR station - 31 January 1967. Findings_FireAylmer1967.html Beachburg CNR station - destroyed by fire 27 February 1931. Findings_FireBeachburg1931.html Bedell overhead highway bridge at m. 99.88, Winchester sub. - 12 May 1934. Findings_FireBedellBridge1934.html Bedell station water tank - 30 April 1900 - Findings_FireBedell1900.html Bellamy's CPR station, 6 November 1886. Findings_FireBellamy1886.html Bells Corners Canada Central station destroyed by fire August 1870 (before the opening of the line) Findings_FireStittsville1870.html Bells Corners CPR station fire, June 1894 Findings_FireBellsCorners1894.html Braeside CPR station, 23 June 1919. Findings_FireBraeside1919.html Bristol Pontiac and Renfrew Ralway enginehouse destroyed by fire shortly before April 1891. Findings_FireBristol1891.html Britannia CPR station, February 1895. Findings_FireBritannia1895.html Britannia OER station, before 26 August 1908. Findings_FireBritannia1908.html Brockville Brockville and Ottawa roundhouse 7 July 1870 Findings_FireBrockville1870.html Brockville GTR freight sheds, partially destroyed - 11 July 1909 Findings_FireBrockville1909.html Brockville GTR locomotive shed - spring 1971. {Phil Jago} Brockville CNR Perth Street crossing gate tower, derailment caused a stove to explode 3 January 1971{Phil Jago} Wreck%20Details/1971Brockville.html Buckingham CPR station - mid-April 1891. Findings_FireBuckingham1891.html Caldwell CNR station - 28 August 1924. Findings_FireCaldwell1924.html Cardinal GTR station - 6 February 1922. Findings_FireCardinal1922.html Carleton Place Canada Central Railway - Fire at Carleton Place - May 1879 Findings_FireOttawa1879.html Carleton Place CPR carpenters shop - 27 July 1897. Findings_FireCarletonPlace1897.html Carleton Place CPR roundhouse roof - 12 December 1911. Findings_FireCarletonPlace1911.html Carlsbad Springs GTR station burned 12 September 1906. Findings_FireCarlsbad1906.html Cascades CPR station may have burned in 1910 but needs to be confirmed {Bruce Ballantyne} Casselman CAR station and freight shed burned and bridge over South Nation river badly damaged by fire - 5 October 1897. Findings_FireCasselman1897.html Casselman CNR station - 12 September 1937. Findings_FireCasselman1937.html Cheney CAR. station - 5 October 1897. Findings_FireCasselman1897.html Chats Falls Union Forwarding and Railway freight house, wharf and a "few rods" of railway - 21 September 1860 Findings_FireChatsFalls1860.html Chats Falls Union Forwarding and Railway - half a mile of track - 20 August 1870 Findings_FireChatsFalls1870.html Chats Falls Union Forwarding and Railway - half a mile of trestle - 4 July 1871 Findings_FireChatsFalls1871.html Clarendon CPR (K&P) station burned 2 December 1917 Findings_FireClarendon1917.html Cornwall Junction O&NY and GTR signal tower destroyed by fire 27 December 1916 Cornwall Junction O&NY and CNR station destroyed by fire - 24 August 1924 Findings_Fire1924CornwallJunction.html Crysler Ottawa and New York Station Crysler partly Demolished by a Construction Train 5 August 1898 Findings_FireCrysler1898.html Crysler Ottawa and New York Railway station - Burned 1 September 1908. Findings_FireCrysler1908.html Dalkeith - GTR pump house, engine room and water tank - 7 December 1907 Findings_FireDalkeith1907.html Dalkeith - GTR station, before April 1914. De Beaujeu - see St. Polycarpe Junction. Deschenes Hull Electric Railway power house - 19 October 1909. Findings_FireDeschenes1909.html Deschenes Hull Electric Railway power house (unused for four years) - 24 May 1932 Findings_FireDeschenes1932.html Douglas CAR station - March 1902. Findings_FireDouglas1902.html Dwyer Hill CNR station and freight shed - 12 May 1941. Findings_FireDwyerHill1941.html Eganville CPR station pumphouse burned - 18 February 1897 Findings_FireEganville1897.html Eganville GTR station and freight shed - 22 April 1915. Findings_FireEganville1915.html Embrun O&NY trestle - 11 July 1908. Findings_FireEmbrun1908.html Farrelton ON&W station - 27 October 1902 Findings_FireFarrelton1902.html Federal (Rideau Junction) Canadian Northern Railway coal plant - October 1916. Finch Interlocking Tower CPR/NYC - 1923 or 1924 Chris Granger Finch CPR/NYC station and freight shed - 5 August 1926. Findings_Fire1926Finch.html Forfar CNR station - 27 September 1941 Findings_FireForfar1941.html Forfar CNR section house - 17 February 1979 Findings_FireForfar1979.html Gananoque Thousand Islands Railway station 24 September 1990 Findings_FireGananoque1990.html Gatineau CPR station - before 26 May 1992 Findings_FireGatineau1992.html Glasgow CNR station - 26 March 1945. Findings_FireGlasgow1945.html Glen Robertson GTR station - c.1916. Glen Sandfield GTR station - 15 August 1920 Findings_FireGlenSandfield1920.html Gracefield O&G station - 18 December 1895. Findings_FireGracefield1895.html Gracefield CPR station - 3 September 1926. Findings_FireGracefield1926.html Haleys CPR station - demolished by a derailment of the Soo Express and subsequently caught fire - 10 December 1900. Wreck%20Details/1900Haleys.html Hammond Grand Trunk station - 13 June 1914 Findings_FireHammond1914.html Harrowsmith K. & P Station destroyed by fire - 23 October 1900 Findings_FireHarrowsmith1900.html Hawkesbury CAR roundhouse 26 November 1898 Findings_FireHawkesbury1898.html Hawkesbury CNOR station - 28 December 1904 Findings_FireHawkesbury1904.html Hawkesbury GTR station, partially destroyed by fire - 14 April 1910 Findings_FireHawkesbury1910.html Hawkesbury CNR (former GTR station) burned in the late 1970s or early 1980s. It had been moved and was used by Siversky's Hardware (Jim Christie) Hull C.P.R. station badly damaged in the General Explosives explosion, 9 May 1910 Findings_FireHull1910.html Hull north end of the Interprovincial Bridge - 29 March 1946. Findings_FireHullInterprovincialBridge1946.html Jasper (first) station - believed destroyed by fire in 1871 Findings_FireJasper1871.html Jasper (second) station - destroyed by fire 17 June 1971 Findings_FireJasper1971.html Kemptville St. Lawrence and Ottawa station - destroyed in a storm 8 June 1874 Findings_FireKemptville1874.html Kinburn CNR station - June 1935. This was noted by Aubrey Mattingly but from later photographs this doesn't appear to have been the case. Maybe this was a minor fire which did not destroy the fabric of the building. Kingston Kingston, Portsmouth and Cataraqui Electric Railway workshop - 1 June 1902 Findings_FireKingston1902.html Kingston CPR (K&P) car shops -12 September 1905. Findings_FireKingston1905.html Kingston Kingston, Portsmouth and Cataraqui Electric Railway car barns - 13 January 1909. Findings_FireKingston1909.html Kingston Kingston, Portsmouth and Cataraqui Electric Railway car barns - 1 March 1930 (this ended service) Findings_FireKingston1930.html Kingston Kingston, Canadian Pacific Freight Office burned 29 December 1939. Findings_FireKingston1939.html Laframboise - Canadian Northern station hit by lightning - 10 September 1912. Limoges - see South Indian Madawaska O.A. & P.S. car shops burned 3 August 1899 Findings_FireMadawaska1899.html Manotick C.P.R. station and agent's house - Spring 1889. Findings_FireManotick1889.html Masson QG (CPR/QMO&O) Station at Masson Destroyed by Heavy Snowfall 11 March 2021 Findings_FireMasson2021.html Maxville GTR station platforms and five boxcars loaded with pressed hay - 5 July 1911. Findings_FireMaxville1911.html Moose Creek station destroyed by fire - 13 April 1955 Findings_FireMooseCreek1955.html Nolans CNoR station destroyed by fire when a kerosene lamp tipped over. (local story). Newboro BW&SSM station - early August 1892 (hit by lightning). Findings_FireNewboro1892.html Newington NYC station seriously damaged in a tornado 2 August 1935. Findings_FireNewington1935.html Ottawa Ottawa and Prescot Railway engine house - 8 November 1857. Findings_FireOttawa1857.html Ottawa Ottawa and Prescott Railway Sussex Street/McTaggert Street station - 7 May 1860. Findings_FireOttawa1860.html Ottawa Canada Central Blacksmiths shop in the Chaudiere dstroyed by fire - 17 February 1871 Findings_FireOttawa1871.html Ottawa Canada Central Railway - general fire of September 1874 Findings_FireOttawa1874.html Ottawa Canada Central Railway - bush fires between Stittsville and Ashton - July 1878 Findings_FireOttawa1878.html Ottawa CPR, car shed at the Chaudiere - 3 February 1890. Findings_FireOttawa1890.html Ottawa CPR, formerly St. Lawrence and Ottawa freight shed, formerly station, on Sussex Street - 1 July1895. Findings_FireOttawa1895.html Ottawa CAR Elgin Street roundhouse - 3 August 1899. Findings_FireOttawa1899.html Ottawa Great Fire of 1900 - 26 April 1900. Findings_FireOttawa1900.html Ottawa CAR Ottawa East car repair shops at Stewarton - 21 March 1902. Findings_FireOttawa1902.html Ottawa GTR freight shed - 15 August 1918. Findings_FireOttawa1915.html Ottawa Hull Electric waiting room under the Chateau Laurier - 16 January 1922. Findings_FireOttawa1922.html Ottawa Hall Fuels Ltd., warehouse, coal trestle,stockpiles (also 22 railway cars) - 26 June 1956 Findings_FireOttawa1956.html Ottawa CNR car department office and stores building (eastern end), former CAR first passenger station (Elgin Street) - 21 December 1941.Findings_FireOttawa1941.html Ottawa Union Station - Minor Arson Attacks 5 January 1958. Findings_FireOttawa1958.html Ottawa City Passenger Railway New Edinburgh stables hit by lightning and partially destroyed - 11 August 1891. Findings_FireOttawa1891.html Ottawa, Central Depot Canada Atlantic Station built too close to the Tracks 19 December 1895. Findings_FireOttawaCentralDepot1895.html Ottawa, Mann Avenue New York Central station - 1 April 1945 Findings_FireOttawaNYC1945.html Ottawa Electric Railway Power Station at the Chaudiere Hit by Lightning 11 August 1891. Findings_FireLightningOttawa1891.html Ottawa Electric Railway storehouse adjacent to Albert street car barn - 6 January 1894. Findings_FireOttawaElectric1894.html Ottawa Car Company 16 March 1899 Findings_FireOttawaElectricCar1899.html Ottawa Electric Railway Middle Street stables and machine shop - 5 May 1925. Findings_FireOttawaElectric1925.html Ottawa Electric Railway Rockcliffe street car barn - 25 September 1927. Findings_FireOttawaElectric1927.html Ottawa Electric Railway Rockcliffe street car barn - 18 September 1932. Findings_FireOttawaElectric1932.html Ottawa Electric Railway Rockcliffe street car barn - 23 June 1937. Findings_FireOttawaElectric1937.html Ottawa Rochesterville, J.R. Booth piling grounds, trackage and platforms. 26 August 1894 Findings_FireOttawa1894.html Ottawa West Canadian Pacific (formerly Canada Central) roundhouse - 26 October 1883. Findings_FireOttawa1883.html Ottawa West Canadian Pacific Union passenger depot - 14 November 1895. Findings_FireOttawaWest1895.html Ottawa West the Great Fire of Ottawa-Hull 26 April 1900 destroyed the CPR station, freight shed and facilities.Findings_FireOttawa1900.html Ottawa West central and east sections of roundhouse - 20 February 1905. Findings_FireOttawaWest1905.html Ottawa West east wing of roundhouse - 12 April 1910. Findings_FireOttawaWest1910.html Ottawa West third CPR station burned 1968 -1969. (Bruce Chapman) Pakenham CPR line was damaged as a result of a landslip - 12 April 1887 Findings_FirePakenham1887.html Pakenham CPR station roof damaged by fire late April 1900 Findings_FirePakenham1900.html Pana NYC (O&NY) station burned 6 December 1986 It had been used as a house after closure of the line in 1957. Findings_FirePana1986.html Pembroke Part of freight shed and office, 6 December 1948 Pendleton CPR station fire 23 January 1901 Findings_FirePendleton1901.html Pendleton CPR station destroyed by fire 25 June 1944 Findings_FirePendleton1944.html Perth CPR car shops boiler house destroyed by fire 2 September 1887 Findings_FirePerth1887.html Perth CPR car shops - 5 July 1902. Findings_FirePerth1902.html Perth CPR locomotive house - 21 November 1926. Findings_FirePerth1927.html Petawawa CPR station and two cars of plasterer's materials - 2 July 1884 Findings_FirePetawawa1884.html Portland CNR station destroyed by fire - 8 June 1941 Findings_FirePortland1941.html Prescott CPR Prescott roundhouse - 12 April 1909. Findings_FirePrescott1909.html Prescott CPR offices, freight shed and nine boxcars on freight shed siding - 20 November 1912. Findings_FirePrescott1912.html Prescott Canadian Car and Passenger Transit building - 1970. {Phil Jago} Renfrew CPR Roundhouse partially destroyed 11 January 1926 Findings_FireRenfrew1926.html Renfrew CPR Freight shed destroyed by fire 1974 {Raymond Farand} Renfrew CNR station 8 January1987 Findings_FireRenfrew1987.html Rideau (near Kingston) GTR station - 13 July 1912. Findings_FireRideau1912.html Rideau (near Kingston) CNR station - 16 December 1933. Findings_FireRideau1933.html Russell NYC Station minor damage 8 January 1934 Findings_FireRussell1934.html Sharbot Lake K&P pumphouse and part of Union station - 7 May 1898. Findings_FireSharbot%20Lake1898.html Smiths Falls CPR roundhouse - 24 August 1893. Findings_FireSmithsFalls1893.html Smiths Falls CPR coal dump - 17 January 1913. Findings_FireSmithsFalls1913.html Smiths Falls CPR freight shed - 2 March 1922. Findings_FireSmithsFalls1922.html Smiths Falls CPR station, ground floor burnt out - 6 January 1930 Findings_FireSmithsFalls1930.html South Indian CAR station and water tank - 5 October 1897 Findings_FireCasselman1897.html South Indian GTR passenger and freight station - 1909. Findings_FireSouthIndian1909.html St. Polycarpe GTR station - 12 May 1914. Findings_FireSTPolycarpe1914.html St. Polycarpe Junction CAR/CPR station damaged by a freight train collision 4 December 1898 Wreck%20Details/1898StPolycarpe.html St. Polycarpe Junction (De Beaujeu) GTR/CPR station, before 15 September 1925. Findings_FireSTPolycarpe1925.html Stitt(s)ville a fire started during construction of the Canada Central Railway in 1870 caused extensive damage - August 1870 Findings_FireStittsville1870.html Thurso CPR station and Freight Shed - 23 December 1947. Findings_FireThurso1947.html Tweed CPR station - 27 December 1941. Findings_FireTweed1941.html Vars GTR station - 9 August 1907. Findings_FireVars1907.html Westport BW&SSM engine house blown down in a storm 19 January 1889 Findings_FireWestport1889.html Yonges Mills Section Foreman's house - 1990's. {Phil Jago} |
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