page_title: Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway
section_title: Construction period
hierarchical_section_title: Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway / Construction period
caption_attribution_description: English: Quebec City Canadian Pacific station on Saint-Paul Street in Quebec City in 1894. Français&#160;: Vue de la gare du Canadien Pacifique sur la rue Saint-Paul à Québec en 1894.
context_page_description: The Canadian province of Quebec formed the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway in 1874 to link those cities since private companies, without the usual subsidies from the Federal Government of Canada, could not get financing, mainly because the Grand Trunk Railway was lobbying against it.
  This project was a priority for the Prime Minister of province of Quebec, Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière. It was the first major railway along the north shore of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers. The promoters of its predecessor companies had hoped to be part of the Canadian transcontinental railway project, a goal which was finally achieved when the QMO&OR was sold to the Canadian Pacific Railway.
context_section_description: In 1872, the North Shore Railway started the construction . The Palais station was built in Quebec City around this period. From Quebec, the railway ran a few miles north of the St-Lawrence river: Lorette, St-Augustin, Pont-Rouge (bridge constructed in 1874), St-Basile, Portneuf, Deschambault, La Chevrottière and Grondines (1902 Map of Great Northern Railway of Canada and CPR formerly QMO&OR or North Shore Railway). On December 24, 1875 the North Shore Railway transferred its properties to the QMO&OR. The Quebec-Montreal section (with Piles branch; Cap-de-la-Madeleine, east of Trois-Rivières, to les Piles), and the Montreal-Aylmer section (with St-Jerome branch which was completed in 1876) were completed at the end of 1877.
  The QMO&OR was the first railway to connect the city of Hull to Montreal and Quebec City (1879 Tourist's Guide du Touriste Quebec & Ottawa). In 1880, it crossed the Ottawa River over the Prince of Wales Bridge to a junction in Ottawa with the Canada Central Railway. It thus linked the Chaudière Falls sawmills to Montreal and to the United States via Brockville.
caption: First Palais Station.
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