Brockville and Ottawa Railway

[1] It ran north from the town of Brockville on the Saint Lawrence River to Smiths Falls, Perth, Carleton Place, and Almonte.

Even more generous and unusual was a land grant of 12,000 acres for every mile completed by September 1870.

Bolckow and Vaughan acquired the lapsing CCR charter in 1865 in the belief that the land claim attached to that railway had value, and had the Legislature of the Province of Canada extend the time for completion by five years to 1870.

The line was leased by the Canadian Pacific Railway and merged in 1881, and was later extended to North Bay and Sudbury.

CP used the original CC routing as their primary access to Ottawa, joining it to the Ontario and Quebec Railway (O&Q) at Perth.