As construction of Ottawa's $2.1-billion light rail network chugs along, archaeologists have unearthed a 145-year-old slice of rail history near Bayview station in the city's Hintonburg neighbourhood. Railway gave birth to HintonburgThe rail turntable discovery is "thrilling," said Dave Allston, a local historian and writer The Kitchissippi Museum, a blog about the history of west Ottawa. Allston's grandfather was a greaser and fitter who performed maintenance on trains for CP Rail when it operated rail lines near where the turntable was dug up. The discovery is also an important part of the city's social history, he said, because many of the early rail workers were immigrants. The significance of finding the rail turntable so close to the future LRT line isn't lost on him, either.

Source: CBC News August 24, 2016 09:00 UTC