RAILWAY-COBDEN RAILWAY STATION

• Name	RAILWAY-COBDEN RAILWAY STATION
  Gender	Unknown
  Person ID	I59	Fay's Family Connections
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2024

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		CHx-Cobden Railroad Station photograph provided by Wayne Heubner to Andy Laird
  		CHx-Cobden Railway Station Postcard
  		CHx-Cobden's First Train Station photographed held by Whitewater Historical Society
  		CHx-Cobden Railway Station Photograph credited to Canadian Pacific Corporate Archives

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		CHx-Cobden Railway Station The Cobden Sun, Apr 26, 1995
  		CHx-Canadian Pacific Train Station, Cobden 1912 Newspaper clipping from the collection of Gladys Francis
  		CHx-Farewell to CPR station & agent Sid Barratt Newspaper Clipping from the 1969 Scrapbook of Irene McLaren, provided to Fay Bennett by Jack McLaren
  		CHx-Smith, Samuel Ernest, former station agent obituary Newspaper obituary from The Ottawa Journal, 21 Jun 1949, p.12
  		Stavenow, Jack is new station agent in Shawville Newspaper article, The Ottawa Journal 5 Sep 1942, p.14
  		CHx-Cobden CPR Station Newspaper clipping from the collection of Girlie Bennett, provided by Clair Huckabone.
  		CHx-CPR schedule The Cobden Sun, Feb 22, 1912, held at Whitewater Historical Society
  		CHx-Cobden CPR Station being dismantled Newspaper clipping from the collection of Gladys Francis
  		CHx-BARRATT, Sydney is Cobden’s Station Agent following T.C. Shields Newspaper clipping from the collection of Gladys Francis
  		CHx-Acheson replacing Hurst as station agent The Cobden Sun, Aug 20, 1896
  		Cobden Railway Station, 1900 Newspaper clipping from the scrapbook collection of Jack & Janice McLaren, compiled by Irene McLaren, 1989-90
  		Changes in staffing The Cobden Sun, Sep 30, 1987

  
  

• Notes

  From Cobden Then & Now p. 21-23 The railway reached Cobden & Pembroke in 1876. the first station was temporary an built near the crossing on Boundary Rd. the following year a permanent building was built closer to Main St. Cobden served as a shipping centre and In 1902, Cobden was reported to be the largest shipping centre west of Ottawa. Stock pens were constructed where farmers brought their cattle and from which drovers loaded them into cattle cars for shipment to Toronto and Montreal. The grain elevators loaded wheat, barley and oats for distant markets and farmers loaded pulpwood and hay by sheer muscle power alone. Activity decreased after the CNR was built through Forester's Falls and Beachburg in 1915. in 1971, the CPR station was torn down after being closed and vacant for several years. At one time there was an agent or clerk on duty 24 hours / day with at least six passenger trains making daily stops.