Sand Point, Ontario

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Sand Point is a community in Ontario along the Ottawa River, roughly six miles to the west of Arnprior on the River Road. During the 1860s and early 1870s it was the terminus of the Canada Central Railway (subsequently acquired by the Canadian Pacific Railway).

1 Accident
2 Description
3 Sand Point Ferry
4 Rhoddy's Bay
5 See also
6 References

[edit] Accident

On February 9, 1904, fifteen people were killed in a railway accident near Sand Point. The names of the thirteen killed at the scene were:

Joseph Jackson, engineer, Ottawa
W. Mullen, newsagent, Montreal
Robert Thompson, express messenger, Montreal
John O'Toole, baggageman, Ottawa
Ernest Dubois, firefighter, Hochelaga
Nelson Robertson, express manager, Montreal
Joseph Chalu
Dolphis Seguin
J. Carriere
M. LeBrun
William Pouilotte, Whitney, Ontario
two unidentified persons

[edit] Description

In the accident Canadian Pacific train 7 collided head on with Canadian Pacific train 8 about two miles west of Sand Point. Thirteen (sic) people died ... Dead link

[edit] Sand Point Ferry

For decades Sand Point was the Ontario terminus of the Sand Point-Norway Bay ferry which provided access to the CPR and Anrprior. From 1923 to 1963 the ferry, Norvic, landed at the Norway Bay Wharf. The ferry was sold in 1963. Mr. Gamble who owned the ferry paid the wharfage fees charged each year by the federal government. [[1]] The ferry has been revived as a tour boat in the 1000 Islands system.