Canning

Canning, Nova Scotia

Mile 10.7 Kingsport Subdivision

• Next Station West: Hillaton
• Next Station East: Pereau

Facilities

Canning Station, Mile 10.7

17 car siding with three apple warehouses:

• Canning Fruit Company Warehouse/Kent Foods Apple Juice Plant
• Herbert Oyler Warehouse/Kent Foods Warehouse
• Maple Leaf Fruit Company/Kent Foods Warehouse

Spur, eastbound switch for:

• Maple Leaf Fruit Company Warehouse
• R.W. Graves Vinegar Factory

• Canning Bridge, small pile trestle bridge over stream north of Route 221, c. mile 10.4

• Sangster/R.W. DeWolfe Company Warehouse, Mile 9.9

• Canning Wye and Spur: 3300' spur to Canning wharf, active circa 1911-1920, mainly for Borden private railway car South leg: c. Mile 9.8, North leg: c. Mile 10.1

• Habitant River Bridge, Mile 9.2

Gallery

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  Locomotive No. 31 at Canning Station with the Oyler apple warehouse under construction.

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  Map of Canning Wye and Spur as designed April 28, 1911.

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  Canning Station, from the west with the Maple Leaf Foods/Kent Foods warehouse on the left, July 1958.

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  Topographic map from Kentville to Hortons Landing circa 1956.

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  Oyler apple warehouse, now Canning fire hall, October 2007

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  Kent Food warehouse, Canning, October 2007

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  Site of the Canning Station with converted apple warehouse on left, April 20, 2008.

References and Footnotes

• Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table September 25, 1949, Library and Archives Canada, pmp -HE.2804 DC
• Canning Library and Heritage Centre Historical Calendar 2000
• DAR Chart of Apple Warehouses Feb. 12, 1927, Leon Barron Collection