Monday, May 16, 2016

Eddy siding, Brewery Creek - Hull, QC

Waymark Code: WMR6G5

Posted co-ordinates are for four benches on the east side of Brewery Creek.

This bridge over Brewery Creek allowed traffic between the E.B. Eddy mill site and the main lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP).

Since 1997, the siding for the E.B. Eddy mill site connected with the CP immediately north of the Prince of Wales bridge across the Ottawa River. The tracks, still in situ, ran parallel to and south of the Hull Electric Railway (HER). Before 1997, the E.B. Eddy mill siding connected with the CP Waltham subdivision, using a bridge over the tracks that exit the Prince of Wales bridge.

This bridge hosts a single track including guard rails. Immediately west of the bridge is a switch for the siding's own 150 metre passing track. East of the bridge, tracks were twinned for entry into the Eddy mill site but the rails that enter the mill site were removed about 1999. North (upstream) of this bridge, remnants of the bridge for the Hull Electric Railway should still be there.

In the 1960s, a bridge across Brewery Creek hosted two sets of tracks, in addition to the HER crossing. There were six passing or parking sidings immediately west of the bridge. There were three sets of track entering the mill site east of the bridge.

The viewing site is just downstream from the bridge.

100 - Lillian Elizabeth (Jones) Hekking - Pinecrest, Ottawa, Ontario

Waymark Code: WMR7P2

The memorial is in section K, lot 279-2.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
ALPHONSE HEKKING
1885-1951
AND HIS WIFE
LILLIAN ELIZABETH JONES
1885-1986

The text below is taken from The Ottawa Citizen newspaper, 13 February 1986, page D4.

At home on Tuesday, February 11, 1986, Elizabeth Lillian Jones, in her 101st year dearly beloved wife of the late Alphonse Hekking. Dear mother of Mrs. Betty Slade and Margaret (Mrs. L. A. Mosher). Also survived by 2 grandsons and 2 great-grandsons. A private service was held on Wednesday. Interment Pinecrest Cemetery.

According to the Ontario marriage registration (1917 #015521), Lillian Elizabeth Jones (daughter of William Owen Jones and Jane Costain) married Alphonse Marie Hekking in Woodstock, 5 September 1917.

Accoring to the Ontario birth registration (1885 #026277), Elizabeth Jones (daughter of William Jones, labourer, and Jane Costine) was born in East Zorra, 4 May 1885.