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Cordwood Limited A History of the Victoria & Sidney Railway by Hearn & Wilkie SC
Cordwood Limited Victory & Sidney Railway by George Hearn & David Wilkie sc
Cordwood Limited
A History of the Victoria & Sidney Railway
George Hearn and David Wilkie
Soft Cover
80 Pages
Copyright 1966
Contents
Early Railroad Schemes3
Surveying the Route4
Financing Arranged8
Start of Construction11
Elk Lake Relocation12
First Rolling Stock15
Temporary Southern Terminus16
Early Operations16
Victoria Terminal Railway & Ferry Company23
Commencement of Victoria City & Mainland Extensions27
The great Northern Purchase28
New Mainland Rail Connections31
Mainland to Island Connecting Link SS "Victorian"32
Additional Motive Power35
Service Complaints36
Further Extension of G.N. Control39
Operating Problems40
The G.N. Locomotives44
A New Victoria Station48
Passenger Problems52
City and Province versus Railway Company55
CompetitionB.C.E.R.56
G.N. Gas-Electric Car56
Further CompetitionCanadian Northern Pacific Railway60
New G.N. Barge Slip64
The Big Snow of 191664
The Last Run71
V & S in Receivership72
Sidney Branch Sold to C.N.75
End of an Era76
Roster of Locomotives79
Biblography and Acknowledgements80
In the colourful history of the Saanich Peninsula, on southern Vancouver Island in the Province of British Columbia, one event stands out as making the greatest contribution toward the development of the area. This was the construction, in 1893, of the Victoria & Sidney Railway. Its incorporation on April 23rd, 1892, was the culmination of extensive plans laid by Robert Irving of Victoria and the Brethour brothers, Henry and Julius, pioneers of North Saanich. The Brethours had been instrumental both in organizing the original townsite of Sidney and, in partnership with Eastern industrialist John White, in establishing there the first sawmill on the peninsula. It was felt that the proposed railway would be of great value in transporting the products of -the mill to the expanding City of Victoria sixteen miles to the south.
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