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Image:DAR0031a.jpg|Locomotive [[DAR0031|No. 31]] at [[Canning Station]] with the [[Herbert Oyler Canning Warehouse|Oyler apple warehouse]] under construction. | Image:DAR0031a.jpg|Locomotive [[DAR0031|No. 31]] at [[Canning Station]] with the [[Herbert Oyler Canning Warehouse|Oyler apple warehouse]] under construction. | ||
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File:CanningSpur.jpg|Map of [[Canning Wye and Spur]] as designed April 28, 1911. | File:CanningSpur.jpg|Map of [[Canning Wye and Spur]] as designed April 28, 1911. | ||
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. | ||
Revision as of 20:31, 25 March 2018
Canning, Nova Scotia
Mile 10.7 Kingsport Subdivision
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
Locomotive No. 31 at Canning Station with the Oyler apple warehouse under construction.
Map of Canning Wye and Spur as designed April 28, 1911.
Topographic map from Kentville to Hortons Landing circa 1956.
Oyler apple warehouse, now Canning fire hall, October 2007
Kent Food warehouse, Canning, October 2007
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
