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Mile 38.5 on the [[:Category:Subdivision Halifax|Halifax Subdivision]] at [[Hantsport]] | Mile 38.5 on the [[:Category:Subdivision Halifax|Halifax Subdivision]] at [[Hantsport]] | ||
Revision as of 18:07, 4 January 2020
Laurie Sanford/British Canadian Fruit Association Apple Warehouse Hantsport
Mile 38.5 on the Halifax Subdivision at Hantsport
- Wooden construction
- 7,2000 barrel capacity[1]
Laurie Sanford, a large apple grower from Mount Denson owned three warehouses in Hantsport, the largest being his trackside apple warehouse on Station Street, located just behind the Hantsport Station. This warehouse made history in 1927 when Sanford used the warehouse to host a large apple blossom dance. This included selection of an apple blossom queen and princesses. The event grew into an annual event until 1932 when it became too large for Hantsport to host, so the event was transferred to Kentville, where it became the annual Apple Blossom Festival which continues today. Sanford sold his warehouse to the British Canadian Fruit Association in the 1920s.[2] It was purchased by Roy Joudrey after WW II for the Annapolis Valley Canneries juice factory and combined with the adjacent Hantsport Fruit Company warehouse. Both warehouses were demolished about 2005.
Gallery
Hantsport viewed looking east from boxcar on the Hantsport team track with the Hantsport Station, the G.H. Yeaton Warehouse and the Sandford apple warehouse, circa 1895.
Interior of the Sanfords apple warehouse in Hantsport, circa 1900.
Hantsport Station east end, with the Sandford apple warehouse, July 1959.
Hantsport Station and the Hantsport Railyard with the Sandford apple warehouse and the United Fruit Companies Warehouse, July 1959.
Hantsport Station with the Sandford apple warehouse and United Fruit Companies warehouse, August 1961.
References and Footnotes
"Hantsport claims Apple Blossom Festival honours", The Hants Journal, April 15, 2015
- ↑ Dominion Atlantic Railway, DAR Chart of Apple and Produce Warehouses, February 23, 1927
- ↑ Dominion Atlantic Railway, DAR Chart of Apple and Produce Warehouses, February 23, 1927
