K&P Newspaper Articles 1900-1957

Ottawa's Colin Churcher compiled newspaper articles from area newspapers regarding the Kingston & Pembroke over the years.

07/01/1882 - Kingston Daily British Whig - Railway Station Annoyances

Complaint has been made that persons driving into and out of the city have suffered annoyances from the movement and noise of trains at the Tete du Pont Barracks. The railway men feel the force of these grumblings, and have done what they can to meet the wishes of the public, the Superintendent having enjoined as much quietude as possible on the part of the train men and appointed a flag man. It has been suggested that the station be removed to a location nearer the cotton mill. This will be done; in time a new round house will be constructed and the building at present known as such converted into a freight depot.  A correspondent adds: "Some people want the station removed from the barracks. I don't approve of such a thing. If there is to be any change let the barrack gate be abolished and the road straightened. 

18/04/1883 - Kingston Daily British Whig - Railway Round House  

The K. & P. RR. round house will soon be ready for occupation. Ferguson Bros. of Napanee are now [illegible] the roof. The building is [88?] feet front, [133?] feet the half circle. It is [62?] feet deep and contains six stalls. It is frame and was built by R.S. Mowat, one of Kingston’s contractors. A turntable is now being placed in front of the round house. The Superintendent of the Kingston & Pembroke RR. was supervising the removal of the old turn table near the Tete du Pont barracks and changing the tracks so that the shunting of trains will be done away with at that point and the people of Pittsburg have no further grievances to ventilate.

11/05/1900 - Renfrew Mercury

A locomotive from the Kingston Locomotive Works came out this week on the K. & P.R. for transfer to the C.P.R., who were to carry it on to Portage La Prairie, where it would enter service for the Manitoba & Northwestern.

06/06/1912 - Ottawa Journal - K. and P. Train held up by Pest

Millions of caterpillars die on the track and block the coaches with slimy bodies. A butterfly is all right but a caterpillar is all wrong especially when in number that ther are like unto the sand of the sea shore. The Kingston and Pembroke train labored badly on a portion of its journey from Calabodie Tuesday night. The pest, which was very serious last year, is reported to be much worse this year.

Kingston - 19/06/1912 - Ottawa Citizen Duke at Kingston. 

The Duke of Connaught will arrive In the city Wednesday on the morning train over the Kingston and Pembroke Railway at eight o'clock. The cars Cornwall and York will be attached to the train at Sharbot Lake. The Duke will go over to the Royal Military College for the ceremonle. which commence there at 10.30 a.m.

18/06/1957 - Kingston - Kingston and Pembroke Railway Co. 

Has closed down 86 years after its inception. The service was discontinued Saturday following the return to Kingston of the last scheduled train from Sharbot Lake. The company, for half a century a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway, was chartered in 1871. Its first section spanning the 46.8 miles to Sharbot Lake was opened in June, 1875 There were subsequent extentions to Snow Road and to Renfrew with spur lines serving the Martele iron mines and those at nearby Zanesville. The K and P line was in receivership in 1894. But it I organized four years later and in 1903 passed to the CPR. The Bay of Quinte Railway enjoyed trackage rights over the Kingston line until 1913. 

Before the First World War the Kingston service consisted of a daily passenger and mixed train each way with an extra mixed service as far as Sharbot Lake. The Canadian Locomotive Co. Kingston, built the Kingston company's 11 locomotives. Records show the line's inventory when the CPR took over included seven passenger cars, 50 flat cars and 20 box cars. Captions to three pictures. One of Canada's oldest railway lines was discontinued Saturday when CPR trains 612 and 613 from Kingston to Sharbot Lake and return made their last runs. Train is shown leaving Kingston, with freight, express, mail and passenger cars. Conductor George Giff of Smiths Falls had little passenger business to handle. He was kept busy though with waybills, manifests, etc. of mixed cargo. Train 612 pulls into the deserted station platform at Shatbot Lake 46 miles north of Kingston. Train connected with CPR local train from Toronto and Montreal.