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=Grand Pre, Nova Scotia= | =Grand Pre, Nova Scotia= | ||
[[:Category:Subdivision Halifax|Halifax Subdivision]] (Mile 46.24 from [[Windsor Junction]]), Mile 62.46, (from [[Halifax]]) | [[:Category:Subdivision Halifax|Halifax Subdivision]] (Mile 46.24 from [[Windsor Junction]]), Mile 62.46, (from [[Halifax]]) | ||
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*[[Grand Pre Station]] | *[[Grand Pre Station]] | ||
*[[Grand Pre Water Tower]] | *[[Grand Pre Water Tower]] | ||
| + | *[[Grand Pre Park]] | ||
==Commerce & Industry== | ==Commerce & Industry== | ||
| − | + | Four apple warehouses:<br> | |
| − | *Livestock Loading ramp | + | * British Canadian Fruit Company wooden warehouse<br> |
| + | * British Canadian Fruit Company/R.W. DeWolfe Limited brick warehouse<br> | ||
| + | * D. Wuille/Mrs. Wm Sangster<br> | ||
| + | * [[Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse]] | ||
| + | * [[Grand Pre Stock Yard|Livestock Loading ramp]] | ||
==Description & History== | ==Description & History== | ||
| − | Grand Pre was settled by Acadians about 1680 and grew to become the largest of the Acadian settlements around the Minas Basin. The village was destroyed in 1755 during the Acadian Expulsion. New England Planter settlers arrived in 1760. Grand Pre became a productive farming area but town and village life concentrated on the nearby harbour at [[Wolfville]]. When the [[Windsor & Annapolis Railway]] arrived in 1869, Grand Pre was initially served by only a small W&A station on the south side of the mainline <ref>Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab, C. E., November 1, 1873. pages 14, 21</ref> along with a team track for freight. | + | [[Grand Pre]] was settled by Acadians about 1680 and grew to become the largest of the Acadian settlements around the Minas Basin. The village was destroyed in 1755 during the Acadian Expulsion. New England Planter settlers arrived in 1760. Grand Pre became a productive farming area but town and village life concentrated on the nearby harbour at [[Wolfville]]. When the [[Windsor & Annapolis Railway]] arrived in 1869, Grand Pre was initially served by only a small W&A station on the south side of the mainline <ref>Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab, C. E., November 1, 1873. pages 14, 21</ref> along with a team track for freight. |
| − | However a line of willow trees and an old well associated with the vanished Acadian village across the track from the | + | However a line of willow trees and an old well associated with the vanished Acadian village across the track from the [[Grand Pre Station]] attracted the interest of Acadians interested in their heritage and for American tourists attracted by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Evangeline" which was set at Grand Pre. The railway built the [[Grand Pre Park]] in 1917 and developed it in partnership with the Acadian community. A new [[Grand Pre Station#Dominion Atlantic Railway Log Station 1925 - Present|picturesque, log-cabin stye station]] was built on the north side of the tracks in 1925 connected to the park by landscaped paths. |
| − | + | The early 20th century saw a major expansion of the apple industry at Grand Pre. A small apple warehouse built to the west of the station before World War I was enlarged and joined by three larger apple warehouses. Apple company warehouses included the British Canadian Fruit Association, later R.W DeWolfe by the station; the Northard & Lowe, later Red Bar Fruit Company<ref>E. D. Haliburton, ''Boats, Books & Apples'' Haliburton Farms and Stoney Point Publishing (2003) p. 71</ref> and the Grand Pre Fruit Company. | |
| − | The | + | After the decline in passenger travel in the 1950s, the DAR sold the [[Grand Pre Park|memorial gardens]] to Parks Canada in 1957. The station was eventually closed and was moved to nearby Evangeline Beach in 1962 where it was converted into a summer cottage. The apple warehouses fell out of use as the apple industry in the Annapolis Valley declined in the 1950s and were demolished one by one. The last warehouse, the [[Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse]], was converted into a carpentry shop and dance studio in the 1990s but was destroyed by fire in 2008.<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/fire-guts-apple-warehouse-in-grand-pr%C3%A9-1.757555 "Fire guts apple warehouse in Grand Pré", CBC News, May 20, 2008]</ref> |
| − | + | Today an [[Grand Pre Park|interpretive centre]] at Grand Pre occupies the site of the old fruit warehouses and tells the story of the Acadian settlement of Grand Pre and includes displays on the railway's promotion and development of the site. | |
| − | + | The DAR's Observation-Parlour car [[DARGRANDPRE|"Grand Pre"]] was named after the village as well as the locomotive [[DAR0385|No. 385]]. | |
==Operations & Orders== | ==Operations & Orders== | ||
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==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
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| − | File:HA-46.24 Grand Pre.jpg|1918 Track Chart of Grand Pre | + | File:HA-46.24 Grand Pre.jpg|1918 Track Chart of Grand Pre, updated Jan. 1, 1926. |
Image:1903-LANDOFEVANGELINE-P08.jpg|[[Grand Pre]] circa 1890s. | Image:1903-LANDOFEVANGELINE-P08.jpg|[[Grand Pre]] circa 1890s. | ||
| − | File: | + | File:GrandPreVillageDARpicA.jpg|Village of [[Grand Pre]] - promotional postcard. |
| − | Image:DHP044822-DEV01514.jpg|The [[Flying Bluenose]], [[Train No. 124]], at [[Grand Pre]], circa | + | Image:DHP044822-DEV01514.jpg|The [[Flying Bluenose]], [[Train No. 124]], at [[Grand Pre]], circa 1910. |
| − | + | File:Grand Pre Postcard.jpg|Photographic postcard of [[Grand Pre]] circa 1915. | |
| − | File:Rail_Cars_Grand_Pre_1922_HH_Reid_cJamieRobertson_Full_Width.jpg| | + | File:201402101.jpg|Map by the Dominion Atlantic Railway showing [[Wolfville]], [[Grand Pre]], [[Horton Landing]] and [[Avonport]] with DAR stations and associated Acadian historical sites, 1920. |
| − | File:Rail_Cars_Grand_Pre_1922_HH_Reid_cJamieRobertson_Zoom_in.jpg| | + | File:Rail_Cars_Grand_Pre_1922_HH_Reid_cJamieRobertson_Full_Width.jpg|Circuit camera shot of Evangeline statue in the [[Grand Pre Park|memorial park]] with station and warehouses in the background, Aug. 16, 1922. |
| − | File:201216064.jpg|[[Grand Pre]], air view from the south with the [[Grand Pre Station]], [[Grand Pre Water Tower|Water Tower]] and fruit warehouses with the memorial park behind, 1931. | + | File:Rail_Cars_Grand_Pre_1922_HH_Reid_cJamieRobertson_Zoom_in.jpg|Detail of circuit camera shot of Evangeline statue in the [[Grand Pre Park|park]]with the [[Grand Pre Station|station]], and warehouses in the background, including the [[Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse]] to the far left, Aug. 16, 1922. |
| − | File:201216063.jpg|[[Grand Pre]] air view from east with the [[Grand Pre Station]], [[Grand Pre Water Tower|Water Tower]] and memorial park with [[Wolfville]] in distance, 1931. | + | File:Grand Pre Hardy.jpg|Photograph of [[Grand Pre]] showing the [[Grand Pre Park|Grand Pre memorial church]]; the [[Grand Pre Water Tower]] and apple warehouses, including the [[Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse]] at the far right, circa 1925. |
| − | File: | + | File:201216064.jpg|[[Grand Pre]], air view from the south with the [[Grand Pre Station]], [[Grand Pre Water Tower|Water Tower]] and fruit warehouses with the [[Grand Pre Park|memorial park]] behind, 1931. |
| − | File: | + | File:201216063.jpg|[[Grand Pre]] air view from east with the [[Grand Pre Station]], [[Grand Pre Water Tower|Water Tower]] and [[Grand Pre Park|memorial park]] with [[Wolfville]] in distance, 1931. |
| − | + | File:Gertridge6.jpg|Queen Annapolisa VI in the coronation ceremony at [[Grand Pre Park]] with [[Grand Pre Water Tower]], British Canadian Fruit Association warehouse and [[DAR001330|DAR Boxcar 1330]] in work train, June 5, 1938. | |
| + | File:GrandPre2.jpg|[[Grand Pre Station]] looking east, ballast train and the [[Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse]] on right, circa 1940s. | ||
File:Wolfville_21_H1_West.jpg|Topographic map from Kentville to Hortons Landing circa 1956. | File:Wolfville_21_H1_West.jpg|Topographic map from Kentville to Hortons Landing circa 1956. | ||
| + | File:DAR1046 1950 Grand Pre Nova Scotia A.jpg|[[DAR1046|Locomotive No. 1046]] with an eastbound freight passing the [[Grand Pre Station]] and apple warehouses, 1950. | ||
Image:1046 with local east of Grand Pre.jpg|[[DAR1046|DAR No. 1046]] with short five car freight traverses the marshes just east of [[Grand Pre]] station, on Monday Oct 8, 1956. | Image:1046 with local east of Grand Pre.jpg|[[DAR1046|DAR No. 1046]] with short five car freight traverses the marshes just east of [[Grand Pre]] station, on Monday Oct 8, 1956. | ||
| + | File:Grand Pre Station 1961 a.jpg|[[Grand Pre Station]] and [[Grand Pre Park|memorial park]] gatehouse, just before station's removal to Evangeline Beach, 1961. | ||
File:22263752008.jpg|Dominion Atlantic Railway [[DAR9059|RDC 9059]] at [[Grand Pre]], circa Sept. 5, 1970. | File:22263752008.jpg|Dominion Atlantic Railway [[DAR9059|RDC 9059]] at [[Grand Pre]], circa Sept. 5, 1970. | ||
| − | File:DAR - RDC unknown - Grand Pre - Mark Hymers Collection - Autumn1973.jpg|RDC pulling into [[Grand Pre]], circa 1973. | + | File:DAR - RDC unknown - Grand Pre - Mark Hymers Collection - Autumn1973.jpg|RDC pulling into [[Grand Pre]] and the grounds of [[Grand Pre Park|memorial park]], circa 1973. |
| − | File:Tony Bremner1.jpg|Grand Pre Park featured on cover to Dominion Atlantic Dayliner brochure June 17 to September 26, 1977. | + | File:Tony Bremner1.jpg|[[Grand Pre Park]] featured on cover to Dominion Atlantic Dayliner brochure June 17 to September 26, 1977. |
</Gallery> | </Gallery> | ||
Latest revision as of 20:30, 11 July 2024
Grand Pre, Nova Scotia
Halifax Subdivision (Mile 46.24 from Windsor Junction), Mile 62.46, (from Halifax)
- Next Station East: Horton Landing
- Next Station West: Wolfville
Facilities & Features
Commerce & Industry
Four apple warehouses:
- British Canadian Fruit Company wooden warehouse
- British Canadian Fruit Company/R.W. DeWolfe Limited brick warehouse
- D. Wuille/Mrs. Wm Sangster
- Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse
- Livestock Loading ramp
Description & History
Grand Pre was settled by Acadians about 1680 and grew to become the largest of the Acadian settlements around the Minas Basin. The village was destroyed in 1755 during the Acadian Expulsion. New England Planter settlers arrived in 1760. Grand Pre became a productive farming area but town and village life concentrated on the nearby harbour at Wolfville. When the Windsor & Annapolis Railway arrived in 1869, Grand Pre was initially served by only a small W&A station on the south side of the mainline [1] along with a team track for freight.
However a line of willow trees and an old well associated with the vanished Acadian village across the track from the Grand Pre Station attracted the interest of Acadians interested in their heritage and for American tourists attracted by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Evangeline" which was set at Grand Pre. The railway built the Grand Pre Park in 1917 and developed it in partnership with the Acadian community. A new picturesque, log-cabin stye station was built on the north side of the tracks in 1925 connected to the park by landscaped paths.
The early 20th century saw a major expansion of the apple industry at Grand Pre. A small apple warehouse built to the west of the station before World War I was enlarged and joined by three larger apple warehouses. Apple company warehouses included the British Canadian Fruit Association, later R.W DeWolfe by the station; the Northard & Lowe, later Red Bar Fruit Company[2] and the Grand Pre Fruit Company.
After the decline in passenger travel in the 1950s, the DAR sold the memorial gardens to Parks Canada in 1957. The station was eventually closed and was moved to nearby Evangeline Beach in 1962 where it was converted into a summer cottage. The apple warehouses fell out of use as the apple industry in the Annapolis Valley declined in the 1950s and were demolished one by one. The last warehouse, the Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse, was converted into a carpentry shop and dance studio in the 1990s but was destroyed by fire in 2008.[3]
Today an interpretive centre at Grand Pre occupies the site of the old fruit warehouses and tells the story of the Acadian settlement of Grand Pre and includes displays on the railway's promotion and development of the site.
The DAR's Observation-Parlour car "Grand Pre" was named after the village as well as the locomotive No. 385.
Operations & Orders
Grand Pre became a destination for passenger specials carrying tourists to Grand Pre as well as Sunday picnics specials and special Apple Blossom excursions run from Kentville. Double-headed passenger specials with locomotives coupled end-to-end would use the Grand Pre siding to reverse the run around the passenger consist so a locomotive could reverse the direction of the excursion train and return to Kentville.[4]
Gallery
1918 Track Chart of Grand Pre, updated Jan. 1, 1926.
Grand Pre circa 1890s.
Village of Grand Pre - promotional postcard.
The Flying Bluenose, Train No. 124, at Grand Pre, circa 1910.
Photographic postcard of Grand Pre circa 1915.
Map by the Dominion Atlantic Railway showing Wolfville, Grand Pre, Horton Landing and Avonport with DAR stations and associated Acadian historical sites, 1920.
Circuit camera shot of Evangeline statue in the memorial park with station and warehouses in the background, Aug. 16, 1922.
Detail of circuit camera shot of Evangeline statue in the parkwith the station, and warehouses in the background, including the Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse to the far left, Aug. 16, 1922.
Photograph of Grand Pre showing the Grand Pre memorial church; the Grand Pre Water Tower and apple warehouses, including the Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse at the far right, circa 1925.
Grand Pre, air view from the south with the Grand Pre Station, Water Tower and fruit warehouses with the memorial park behind, 1931.
Grand Pre air view from east with the Grand Pre Station, Water Tower and memorial park with Wolfville in distance, 1931.
Queen Annapolisa VI in the coronation ceremony at Grand Pre Park with Grand Pre Water Tower, British Canadian Fruit Association warehouse and DAR Boxcar 1330 in work train, June 5, 1938.
Grand Pre Station looking east, ballast train and the Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse on right, circa 1940s.
Topographic map from Kentville to Hortons Landing circa 1956.
Locomotive No. 1046 with an eastbound freight passing the Grand Pre Station and apple warehouses, 1950.
DAR No. 1046 with short five car freight traverses the marshes just east of Grand Pre station, on Monday Oct 8, 1956.
Grand Pre Station and memorial park gatehouse, just before station's removal to Evangeline Beach, 1961.
RDC pulling into Grand Pre and the grounds of memorial park, circa 1973.
Grand Pre Park featured on cover to Dominion Atlantic Dayliner brochure June 17 to September 26, 1977.
References & Footnotes
- ↑ Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab, C. E., November 1, 1873. pages 14, 21
- ↑ E. D. Haliburton, Boats, Books & Apples Haliburton Farms and Stoney Point Publishing (2003) p. 71
- ↑ "Fire guts apple warehouse in Grand Pré", CBC News, May 20, 2008
- ↑ M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, p. 33-35
External Links
Grand Pre, Parks Canada, National Historic Site
