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==Grand Pre Station== | ==Grand Pre Station== | ||
==Windsor & Annapolis Railway Wood Station 1869 - 1925== | ==Windsor & Annapolis Railway Wood Station 1869 - 1925== | ||
| − | The | + | The first Grand Pre station was a simple 40' x 22' structure, one of the medium sized stations built by the [[Windsor and Annapolis Railway]] in 1869.<ref>Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab, C. E., November 1, 1873. pages 14, 21</ref> |
| − | The station master here in the 1870s was Andrew Borden, father of Robert L. Borden, later Prime Minister of Canada. In 1915 when the Prime Minister's mother died in Grand Pre he recorded the following: "On March 26, an alarming telegram reached me; and I left immediately by special train for Grand Pre, arriving in twenty-five-and-a-half hours from Ottawa....my brother Hal and I slept on the private car and early in the morning of March 29, we learned that mother had passed away....." | + | The following information was forwarded to the DARDPI by Heather Watts of the Wolfville Historical Society <ref>[[:Category:Wolfville Historical Society|Wolfville Historical Society]]</ref>: |
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| + | The station master here in the 1870s was Andrew Borden, father of Robert L. Borden, later Prime Minister of Canada. In 1915 when the Prime Minister's mother died in Grand Pre he recorded the following: "On March 26, an alarming telegram reached me; and I left immediately by special train for Grand Pre, arriving in twenty-five-and-a-half hours from Ottawa....my brother Hal and I slept on the private car and early in the morning of March 29, we learned that mother had passed away....."<ref>Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs, Vol. I, McClelland & Stewart, 1969)</ref> | ||
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| − | ==Dominion Atlantic Railway Log | + | ==Dominion Atlantic Railway Log Station 1925 - Present== |
| − | Heather Watt of the Wolfville Historical Society | + | The CPR built a log cabin and fieldstone station on the north side of the tracks in 1925.<ref>[[Marguerite Woodworth]], ''[[History of the Dominion Atlantic Railway]], page 66</ref> Heather Watt of the Wolfville Historical Society reports that "The Grand Pre station was pulled across the dyke and re-erected on the bluff at Evangeline Beach, where it still stands, as a private cottage."<ref>[[:Category:Wolfville Historical Society|Wolfville Historical Society]]</ref> |
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Image:Grand Pre Stations.jpg|Both the new (right) and the old [[Grand Pre Station|stations]] circa 1925. | Image:Grand Pre Stations.jpg|Both the new (right) and the old [[Grand Pre Station|stations]] circa 1925. | ||
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==References and Footnotes== | ==References and Footnotes== | ||
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Revision as of 20:14, 27 December 2014
Grand Pre Station
Windsor & Annapolis Railway Wood Station 1869 - 1925
The first Grand Pre station was a simple 40' x 22' structure, one of the medium sized stations built by the Windsor and Annapolis Railway in 1869.[1]
The following information was forwarded to the DARDPI by Heather Watts of the Wolfville Historical Society [2]:
The station master here in the 1870s was Andrew Borden, father of Robert L. Borden, later Prime Minister of Canada. In 1915 when the Prime Minister's mother died in Grand Pre he recorded the following: "On March 26, an alarming telegram reached me; and I left immediately by special train for Grand Pre, arriving in twenty-five-and-a-half hours from Ottawa....my brother Hal and I slept on the private car and early in the morning of March 29, we learned that mother had passed away....."[3]
Both the new (right) and the old stations circa 1925.
Dominion Atlantic Railway Log Station 1925 - Present
The CPR built a log cabin and fieldstone station on the north side of the tracks in 1925.[4] Heather Watt of the Wolfville Historical Society reports that "The Grand Pre station was pulled across the dyke and re-erected on the bluff at Evangeline Beach, where it still stands, as a private cottage."[5]
Both the new (right) and the old stations circa 1925.
Air view of Grand Pre Station, Grand Pre Water Tower and Grand Pre Park. c. 1930
Grand Pre Station on August 27, 1956.
DAR No. 1046 stops at Grand Pre Station on October 8, 1956. One of the crew is at the base of the water tower.
July 1958
References and Footnotes
- ↑ Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab, C. E., November 1, 1873. pages 14, 21
- ↑ Wolfville Historical Society
- ↑ Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs, Vol. I, McClelland & Stewart, 1969)
- ↑ Marguerite Woodworth, History of the Dominion Atlantic Railway, page 66
- ↑ Wolfville Historical Society
