Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway founded in North Bay in 1902, the name was changed to the Ontario Northland Railway in 1946. Bracebridge, Ontario is a station on the Ontario Northland Railway.

Bracebridge, Ontario postcard view of downtown area Showing Manitoba Street in 1910.

Sturgeon Falls, Ontario is a station on the CPR Cartier Subdivision 23.4 miles west of North Bay on the way to Sudbury, Ontario

This CPR Timetable from 1963 shows that Sturgeon Falls was a regular stop for passenger trains No.7, & No. 8. It had a telegraph office with an operator on duty, and the 120 car capacity siding.

Larry, a complement to your Ontario Northland Railway reference.

Nice to see you back in action Larry, hope you're feeling better.Great watch!, Take care, Ted.

Hello Ted:

Thank you for your well wishes, it's good to be back and I will be posting some more Canadian private labels in the weeks to come.

Larry

Waltham 18 size, 17 jewel, Model 1883, Serial No.14892977 manufactured 1906 Private-label single sunk Roman numeral 24-hour dial marked "James H Newton,:Owen Sound, Ont."

Dial close-up

Movement

The Canadian Pacific Railway began its steamship service From Owen Sound, on the Great Lakes in 1883 using secondhand vessels to move railway construction supplies to various Lake Superior shore points. Three new ships were ordered in Scotland, these were Alberta, Algoma, and Athabasca all were 263 feet long and capable of carrying 2000 tons of packaged freight and 374 passengers. Regular service began with the Algoma, May 11, 1884, replacing the 1883 season service Using Owen Sound steamship company vessels From Owen Sound to Port Arthur in conjunction with CPR rail service to Winnipeg, Manitoba. The three ships provided service three times a week, originally leaving Owen Sound, on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday connecting train service departed from Toronto at 10:45 AM arriving at Owen Sound arriving at 15:05 PM


CPR Steamship Athabasca at Owen Sound, Ontario 1884

CPR Steamship Alberta at Owen Sound, Ontario in 1884

Modern CPR Station circa 1950s at Owen Sound, Ontario, tracks overgrown with weeds looks like it had seen better times

CPR station, yards, and wharf Owen Sound in better times 1907

Tim Dahl posted his Seth Thomas private-label Athabasca 24-hour dial, on a 18 size, 17 jewel two-tone movement on page 11 of this thread, and associated it with the Hudson Bay Company's SS Athabasca, and Athabasca Landing a much smaller steamship 160 feet long, I think this Seth Thomas watch was more likely manufactured to commemorate the much larger CPR SS Athabasca from Ontario mentioned above, that worked on the Great Lakes from Owen Sound to Port Arthur on the lakehead at Lake Superior.

SS Athabasca at Athabasca Landing, Alberta

CPR's SS Athabasca, Ontario

CPR overview in 1884 the CPR began purchasing sailing ships as part of the railway supplies service on the Great Lakes. Over time, CPR became a railroad company with wildly organized water transportation auxiliary that included the CPR Upper Lake Service, the trans-Pacific service, the British Columbia Coast Steamships, the British Columbia Lake and River Service, the trans-Atlantic service and the Ferry service. In the 20th century, the company evolved into a transcontinental railroad which operated to transoceanic services which connected Canada with Europe and with Asia.


CPR's investment in the Great Lakes produced expanded routes and schedules. The inland water fleet, and personnel increased. The decision to expand produced of infrastructure building program. The evolution of the upper lakes service was integrated into CPR's rail service network with trans-Pacific connections.


A roster of the Canadian Pacific Railway Upper Lake Fleet:

1883 SS Algoma 1886 (Sank)
1883 SS Alberta 1947 (sold)
1883 SS Athabasca 1948 (sold)
1889 SS Manitoba 1950 (sold)
1907 SS Assiniboia 1970 (sold)
1907 SS Keewatin 1970 (Museum ship at Saugatuck, Michigan has been repatriated Port Nicoll, Ontario this month).

Larry, here is an addition for the database. Watch is an 18s Dueber Hampden, 17 jewels, Model 3. Serial number is 969,587 dating it circa 1895/1896. The dial is signed: B. Stewart, Carberry, Man.

This is the Dueber Hampden movement.

Back of case.

Hello Bruce:

Nice pictures of your Hampden, private-label from Carberry, Manitoba, thanks for adding it.


Interesting footnote is the case with most towns in the Southwest districts of Western Canada the present town of Carberry owes its origin mainly to the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1882, the CPR established a station at De Winton, a now-defunct townsite about 2 miles East of Carberry's present site. At the time, several CPR officials covertly purchased much of the De Winton's townsite property, hoping for large personal profits as a new town grew around the new train station. This candid speculation was strictly against the CPR's company rules, and on discovering the violation, the rail company decided to use 100 specially hired men to physically move the train station to the present site of the town of Carberry. The extensive and secret operation was conducted in the middle of the night and was completed in less than 12 hours. When the station reached its new location the town of Carberry was born. Carberry quickly grew into a prosperous and was an important stop,along the Canadian Pacific Railway. The CPR mainline route runs through Carberry to this day, however the passenger train has since been removed. Carberry is located 51 miles east of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba and 31 miles west of Brandon, Manitoba.



Larry