Wolfville Station resolved

[Ric]

But solving these little problems is what we are about. I went looking for the conversation on Jim's photo and I didn't find it. I didn't know that it had been resolved. What defined it as Wolfville?

Ric

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I contacted the Wolfville Historical Society and worked with Heather Watts on the subject of what station is in the photo with Jim Taylor's grandfather: http://www.dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?tit ... r0033a.jpg

Heather came up with a number of photos but this one in particular shows the same (short-lived) station right in the middle of it's 20 year tenure: http://www.dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?tit ... n_1900.jpg

There can be no mistaking this station as combination of unique features like the cottage (hip) roof with the chimney on the east side of the roof, the freight shed running east from the station building and the painted band around the bottom of the walls match perfectly between the two photos of the station.

What the first photo shows however that the second photo does not are gable extensions on the back (south) of the station. A gable extension has also been added over the passenger platform on the north side but this can not be seen on the second photo.

It was through this process that Heather Watts and I discovered that Wolfville had 3 stations. A photo that she thought was the same station as the second photo above in fact is a different station and by the time period and photographer who took it, is highky likely to be of the first station: http://www.dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?tit ... g_west.jpg

All this photos are featured on the Wolfville station page: http://www.dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?tit ... le_Station

[Evangelineroute]

Small point, but the text with Wolfville Station Platform.jpg mentions "...electric service to the building...". Is it possible these are telegraph lines? The poles are placed along the rail-bed right-of-way and one would expect electric service to enter the station on the South side, off the major lines on Main Street as shown in Graham's Wolfville Station 1914.jpg. As the photo is credited to Sydney Crawley and "not later than 1890" Wolfville station may not have had electric service at that time. Woodworth, page 107, says electric lights were installed in the Kentville offices in 1892.

Fred

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You are so right. I corrected the text to read telegraph wires. I wouldn't think this was Kentville as we have the photos of the earliest station there and so far I don't see any resemblance for this time period.

[Evangelineroute]

Steve,

Sorry to add confusion about Kentville, above. I was trying to say, if the Kentville offices were not electrified until 1892, it is highly unlikely the Wolfville station would have electric wires in an image taken prior to 1890, and thus, these are probably telegraph wires.

Fred

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That's they way more or less that I understood it. But after studying the photo again, I noticed something that is now driving me nuts.

Check how many arms and insulators there are and then look at all the other station photos. Now I wonder truly where the heck this is.