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Quebec Bridge and Railroad Company [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-series

Date:

1885-1916

Reference:

R610-138-X-E, RG43-A-I-3

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

137046

Context of this record:

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Department of Railways and Canals fonds

Railway Branch

Quebec Bridge and Railroad Company
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Date(s):

1885-1916

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

0.4 m of textual records

Language of material:

English

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Sub-series consists of the minute books of the Quebec Bridge and Railroad Company, 1897-1905; stock certificates, 1904; correspondence, 1885-1908, 1916; and the Record of Fabrication, 1913-1916.

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Quebec Bridge and Railroad Company

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Quebec Bridge and Railroad Company : The Quebec Bridge Company, later renamed the Quebec Bridge and Railroad Company, was incorporated in 1887 for the purpose of constructing a railway bridge across the St. Lawrence River above Quebec City (50-51 Vic., c.98). Little work was done on the bridge until 1900 when the company received financial assistance from the Dominion, provincial and municipal governments, and contracts were entered into with the Phoenix Company.

The bridge, not yet complete, collapsed on 29 August 1907, a catastrophe that ruined the Quebec Bridge Company and the contractors. A royal commission was appointed in 1907 to investigate the accident, and the following year the Dominion government decided to rebuild the bridge as a link in the NTR.

A Board of Engineers was appointed in August 1908 to arrange for and to supervise the erection of a new bridge. In spite of a second serious accident in September 1916, the bridge was completed and the first train passed over the structure on 17 October 1917; the bridge opened for regular traffic on 3 December 1917. RG43 General Inventory

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(Electronic) Finding aid 43-3 is a handwritten file list. 43-3 PDF (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/43-3_137046_vols_698-700_open.pdf

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Source of title:

Title is based on the contents of the sub-series.

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected.

Related material:

See also RG33/6, Royal Commission on the Quebec Bridge Inquiry fonds, MIKAN #153.

Source:

Government

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RG43-A-I-3
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[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [RG43] 698--700

[Consultation 90 Open]

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