The Bytown and Prescott Railway, Ottawa's first railway to outside markets, was a railway joining Ottawa, Ontario (then called Bytown) with Prescott, Ontario on the Saint Lawrence River. The 52 mile railway facilitated shipments of principally lumber via the Saint Lawrence River (and not by rail) to markets in the United States and Montreal. The company itself was incorporated in 1850, and the train first ran from Prescott to Bytown on Christmas Day, 1854. The event was important for the City of Ottawa which was to incorporate the following year.
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