Hello and welcome to another episode of Osgoode Community Chronicles.
Episode Summary
Welcome to another episode of Osgoode Community Chronicles.
Each week we will bring you the news, events, businesses, community voices and more from our local area.
Here is the content for this week, December 3:
1:00 – Updates from last week and what’s coming up in this week’s episode
2:45 – News and Events: the events taking place this week in your community
6:45 – Business Segment: Bytown Prescott Railroad
18:15 – Historical Segment: Accidents on the Railroad and Al Capone’s Bootlegging
27:00 – Community Voices: Margaret Robb and Mike Daley memories of Osgoode Station
34:15 – Mental Health Moment: a weekly segment to bring attention to our mental health
35:30 – Wrap up of this week’s episode
Thanks for tuning in! I hope you enjoy it!
See you next week!
Links to News and Events:
Every week on the podcast we’ll share some of the local events that are taking place in the area. So many great people doing great things – be sure you get out to support them!
Here are this week’s events:
Every Monday there is euchre at the Osgoode Legion, starting at 6:30 pm – come on out, singles, doubles, everyone is welcome. Darts on Tuesday and Bingo on Thursday too.
Greely Legion hosting their monthly euchre tournament starting at noon. It’s on the second Saturday of every month and the next one is Dec 14. Jan 11 Feb 8 Mar 8, Apr 12, May 10
Manotick Legion is hosting History on Film Night on December 11. It’s a free screening of the film Tunes of Glory starring Alec Guinness and John Mills
Don’t miss Christmas on the Farm at Stanleys Old Maple Farm – every weekend (Thursday to Sunday) you can step into the magic of Stanleys’ Christmas Village where Santa’s elves prepare for the holiday season. You can take a holiday stroll for a date night or with friends, or pick out your perfect Christmas tree. Check out their website for details and to buy your passes.
Dec 5 Christmas Road Trip by Seniors Community Services is off to see Miracle on 34th Street at Upper Canada Playhouse, Morrisburg. Tickets are $70 per person and include your transportation, buffet lunch and matinee performance of the show.
Dec 5 The County Lads are playing at the Russell Legion 7 pm, tickets $20 in advance (going fast). They also have bid euchre every Friday at the Russell Legion, starting at noon.4` q
Dec 6 & 7 Oh So Goode choir is hosting Lost Christmas Eve is taking place in Kemptville. The show features the Ottawa South Youth Choir, the Ottawa South Adult Choir, and the Broadway Show Choir accompanied by music from Trans Siberian Orchestra. Tickets available online.
Dec 6-8 Christmas in the Village in Osgoode – including breakfast with Santa, parade of lights, tree lighting ceremony, ugly Christmas sweater party, painting with Bonnie, Christmas market at the Legion, and much more.
Dec 7 Russell Community Christmas Market from 12 pm to 4 pm at the Russell Arena
Dec 7 Parade of Lights party at the Winchester Legion starting at 5 pm. Chili and buns available for purchase
Dec 8 Paint Night at the Kemptville Legion starting at 6 pm $55 includes all supplies. 19+ and the bar will be open
Dec 8 – Kars RA Christmas Market. There will be a variety of vendors on each day of the markets. There is no admission fee however they are collection donations of food or cash to the North Gower Outreach Food Bank.
Youth Associations:
Teen Drop in Grades 7 to 12 at OYA on Main Street every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. See their website for details.
Free Youth Drop In at G-YA Wednesdays. Open to youth in Greely grades 7 to 12 at Greely Community Centre, see their Facebook page for details.
YOMA Pre Teen Night and Youth Drop In on Fridays at the Community Centre. 6:30 for pre-teens and 7:30 for teens.
Have a great week!
Resources:
Bytown and Prescott Railroad Anecdotes from Colin Churcher’s Railway Pages:https://Churcher.crcml.org/circle/BytownandPrescottAnecdotes.html
Colin Churcher’s Railway Pages (Index):
https://churcher.crcml.org/
Walter Shanly’s Report on the Bytown Prescott Line:
https://churcher.crcml.org/candate/shanly.html
Railway Accidents and Incidents in the Ottawa Area:
https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Wrecks.html
Interactive Railway Map of Ottawa and area – Kevin Ballantyne:
https://www.kballantyne.ca/geomatics/maps/ottawa-railways
Hans on the Bike: Cycling The Bytown Prescott Railway Line:
https://hansonthebike.com/2023/09/10/bytown-prescott-railway-retraced
The display of historical ‘tools’ I brought to the Ottawa-Carleton Plowman’s Association AGM where I did a talk about this podcast (the small notebooks that my great grandfather John Richard Blanchfield used to track his threshing work and other services offered to locals were very popular):
Interesting article! Just out of OTHS I trained as an agent and operated on the CPR that ran through Osgoode! I trained with a guy named Nick Taylor from Osgoode and we trained under the station agent Al Denis! I found room and board with Arnold and Grace Morris on Nixon Drive while I was in training! When I finished training I worked as a spare in Bedell, Kemptville and Ottawa west only for a short time, because they started putting in the automatic block systems and shutting down the small stations! I would have trained at Osgoode Station in approx 1963!
This is so interesting. Incredible to think that was 60 years ago. Would love to hear some of your stories, and not just about the train! 🙂
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