• The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, or OA&PS, is a historic railway that operated in central and eastern Ontario, Canada from 1897 until 1959...
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  • east: Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway (OA&PS) Montreal and City of Ottawa Junction Railway (M&OJ) Coteau and Province Line Railway and Bridge...
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    John Rudolphus Booth (category Burials at Beechwood Cemetery (Ottawa))
    'The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company', S.C. 1891, c. 93 Brown 1994, p. 201. An Act to amalgamate the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway...
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    Rudolphus Booth in 1892 to form the western end of his Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway. Failing to come to an agreement on the location of an...
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  • Algoma Central Railway (AC), Grand Trunk Western Railroad (GTW), and Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Company (SSAM), and lessor Arnprior–Nepean Railway Canadian Pacific...
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    Railway. The later was supposed to connect to the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway (OA&PS) at Barry's Bay, but those plans were shelved. A new...
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    Railway. The beginning of the end of rail service in the park happened in 1933 when a flood damaged an old Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway trestle...
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  • Canadian National Hotels (category Canadian National Railway hotels)
    like the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Grand Trunk Railway and Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway. Some of their assets were later acquired by rival...
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    it became known as Killaloe Station circa 1868 when the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway was expanding at a furious pace through the rugged countryside...
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    Depot Harbour (category Communities in Parry Sound District)
    busy port on Georgian Bay. In 1891, the Ottawa, Arnprior and Renfrew Railway and the Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway, two lines controlled by John Rudolphus...
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  • Electric Railway), opens on the Isle of Man. September 18 – The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway opens between Ottawa and Arnprior. October 20...
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    the Madawaska Valley. Previously, John Rudolphus Booth's Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway ran through the town mainly serving the lumber industry...
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    Swords, Ontario (category Communities in Parry Sound District)
    the Booth railway. When the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway came through with the railway, they built a small flag stop and siding and named it...
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    Nobel, Ontario (category Communities in Parry Sound District)
    across the Sound from Depot Harbour; the two towns benefited from the industrialization brought by the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, later the...
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  • and the entire 140 kilometres (87 mi) route was fully completed in 1912. The GB&S was designed to compete with the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway...
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  • and initiates declining winter freight volume on Canadian railways east of Montreal. SAFEGE test monorail built in France. May - The Ottawa, Arnprior...
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  • and Huron Railroad Union Company Oshawa Railway and Navigation Company Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Ottawa, Arnprior and Renfrew Railway Ottawa...
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  • Seguin Falls (category Communities in Parry Sound District)
    Falls developed as a village. During construction of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, completed in 1896, a station was established where the...
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    CN Bala Subdivision (category Rail infrastructure in Parry Sound District)
    materialized as the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, which bypassed the town to reach a western terminus at Depot Harbour nearby, and connected to the...
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  • Kearney, Ontario (category Municipalities in Parry Sound District)
    4 km2). The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway was absorbed into the Canada Atlantic Railway, which was sold to the Grand Trunk Railway in 1905. In...
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    Estates Railway, a similar logging railway a short distance to the east of the W&OR. The CAR was known as the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway until...
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  • central Ontario, Canada. It ran northwest off the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway (OA&PS) from a junction about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) northwest...
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  • Utterson Huntsville Novar Scotia Junction (connection to Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway) Emsdale Burk's Falls Sundridge South River Trout Creek...
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    Seguin River (category Rivers of Parry Sound District)
    at which point it is crossed by the former path of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, now the recreational Seguin Trail rail trail. The river...
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    1892 work had commenced on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway (later the Canada Atlantic Railway), by Ottawa lumberman John Rudolphus Booth...
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    took the Grand Trunk Railway from Toronto to Scotia Junction, then transferred to the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, arriving at Canoe Lake...
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    Wasauksing Swing Bridge (category Bridges in Parry Sound District)
    and an island commonly known as Parry Island (the Wasauksing First Nation), near Parry Sound, Ontario. The bridge was built by the Ottawa, Arnprior and...
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  • Highland Inn (category Canadian National Railway hotels)
    preserve and recreational playground. The railway through the southern and western portions of the park had been built in the 1890s by the Ottawa, Arnprior and...
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    Galetta (redirect from Galetta, Ottawa)
    and finally Galetta in 1873 after James Galetti Whyte who also built mills on the river here. In 1892, the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway built...
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  • Sections west of Ottawa have been under construction since the mid-1970s, with the section bypassing Arnprior opening on November 29, 2012 and another 5.3 km...
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