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File:TO - 19170112 - NewRRStation - Open19170108.jpg | Newspaper Article from ''The Outlook'' about the new station completion by J. H. Hicks & Sons, Jan. 8, 1917. | File:TO - 19170112 - NewRRStation - Open19170108.jpg | Newspaper Article from ''The Outlook'' about the new station completion by J. H. Hicks & Sons, Jan. 8, 1917. | ||
File:Gazette 1921 12 09 DAR Improvements and Bridgetown Station.jpg|Article on the new [[Bridgetown Station]] built by J. H. Hicks & Sons, the start of the [[Midnight]] trains, a new [[Digby Station]], and [[Cornwallis Hotel|Aberdeen Hotel]] renovations, Dec 9, 1921. | File:Gazette 1921 12 09 DAR Improvements and Bridgetown Station.jpg|Article on the new [[Bridgetown Station]] built by J. H. Hicks & Sons, the start of the [[Midnight]] trains, a new [[Digby Station]], and [[Cornwallis Hotel|Aberdeen Hotel]] renovations, Dec 9, 1921. | ||
| + | File:Weekly Monitor 1924 June 11.jpg|''Weekly Monitor'' newspaper article on the new [[apple warehouse]] for the [[Lawrencetown]] Fruit Growers Limited, being built by the [[J. H. Hicks & Sons]], June 11, 1924. | ||
File:SA JHHicks.jpg|The [[J. H. Hicks & Sons]] mill complex, photographed by [[Stephen Archibald]], 1960s. | File:SA JHHicks.jpg|The [[J. H. Hicks & Sons]] mill complex, photographed by [[Stephen Archibald]], 1960s. | ||
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Revision as of 19:59, 10 December 2021
J. H. Hicks & Sons of Bridgetown was a construction firm and lumber mill that built the majority of the valley's apple warehouses[1] as well as many stations on the Dominion Atlantic. It was located of the north side of Bridgetown, served by the Halifax and South Western Railway. The company also operated an apple warehouse served by a spur from the H&SW. The company was founded by John Harry Hicks Junior in 1891, initially based near the Bridgetown wharves on the river, but later moving north to the tracks of the Halifax and South Western Railway, where Church Street changed to Hampton Mountain Road. Hicks had four sons, one of whom Harry Hicks would become premier of Nova Scotia.[2]
Examples of apple warehouses built by Hicks include: Berwick Fruit and the Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse
Stations built by Hicks include: Bridgetown Station, Middleton Station, Lawrencetown Station and the Billtown Station.
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Canadian Railway and Marine World note on contract for new Middleton Station awarded to J. H. Hicks & Sons, Oct. 1916.
Newspaper Article from The Outlook about the new station completion by J. H. Hicks & Sons, Jan. 8, 1917.
Article on the new Bridgetown Station built by J. H. Hicks & Sons, the start of the Midnight trains, a new Digby Station, and Aberdeen Hotel renovations, Dec 9, 1921.
Weekly Monitor newspaper article on the new apple warehouse for the Lawrencetown Fruit Growers Limited, being built by the J. H. Hicks & Sons, June 11, 1924.
The J. H. Hicks & Sons mill complex, photographed by Stephen Archibald, 1960s.
