Waterville

Subdivision Kentville, Mile 9.3

• Next Station East: Cambridge
• Next Station West: Berwick

Facilities & Features

• Waterville Station
• Wood shed 22' x 15'
• 850' siding and *600' blind siding

Commerce & Industry

• Annapolis Valley Canners Limited: canning factory, apples and small fruits

Apple warehouses, west to east:

• C. O. Cook, 1900
• W.H. Chase, 1899
• Northard and Lowe, later S. M. Chute,1899
• Ambrose Stanley "Stan" Banks, 1906
• Waterville Fruit Company, 1910
• Northard and Lowe, 2nd warehouse, 1919
• John Buchanan,1922

Description & History

Originally known as Pineo Village, it was renamed "Waterville" in 1871 shortly after the arrival of the Windsor & Annapolis Railway in 1869. It was an early centre of agriculture and received one of the larger stations along the Windsor & Annapolis.

Gallery

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  Topographic map from Berwick to Kentville circa 1956.

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  The Waterville co-operative apple warehouse, featured in Farmer's Magazine January-December 1915.

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  Waterville apple warehouses with W.H. Chase warehouse in foreground, Northard and Lowe warehouse in middle and Ambrose Stanley Banks warehouse in distance, 1916.

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  The Waterville Station looking west, with the Annapolis Valley Canners buildings on the left, 1958.

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  VIA Rail shelter at Waterville with the Annapolis Valley Canners buildings in the background, April 1986.

References & Footnotes

• 1969 Memorandum of General Information

External Links

Randy Rockwell, Randy Rockwell, "Waterville History" October 2019, Waterville & District Volunteeer Fire Department