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Revision as of 14:13, 23 March 2014
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
- Sangster/R.W. DeWolfe Company Warehouse, Mile 9.9
- Canning Wye and Spur: 3300' spur to Canning wharf, active circa 1912-1920, mainly for Borden private railway car South leg: c. Mile 9.8, North leg: c. Mile 10.1
- Canning Bridge, small pile trestle bridge over stream, c. mile 10.3
Gallery
Locomotive No. 31 at Canning Station with the Oyler apple warehouse under construction.
Locomotive No. 33 with Van No. 435786, location given as Canning.
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
