Brian Gilhuly has published a free eBook featuring Eastern Ontario railway history (with maps!). You can view it on the Arnprior and McNab/Braeside Archives site at this link (PDF):
http://adarchives.org/Gilhuly/Tracing%20the%20Lines.pdf
The book features a lot of text and maps discussing the history of railways in Eastern Ontario, from the Bytown and Prescott Railway in 1854 to today's CN / CP / VIA / QGRY lines. The latter part of the book features a series of maps showing the evolution of trackage (and communities) from the beginning of railways in eastern Ontario to today. It's been updated recently to include VIA's acquisition of the CP Brockville subdivision.
Check it out!
7 comments:
Thanks!
Much of my family history is in the area and on one half of the family we purchased small chunk of the former ROW in the valley, so this should be a fun read (especially since this is the first I have heard of this).
I hope you like it, AJ! I stumbled across it and I was glad that I did.
Great find!
DaveM
Great find! I am checking it out now. Thanks for passing along the info.
Thanks Dave and Michael!
Thank you for this!
Glad to help GP9!
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