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*[http://novascotia.ca/archives/mccully/archives.asp?ID=143 Aerial View of Station and Yards. McCully Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 2012-010/005 no. 16 | negative no. 341] | *[http://novascotia.ca/archives/mccully/archives.asp?ID=143 Aerial View of Station and Yards. McCully Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 2012-010/005 no. 16 | negative no. 341] | ||
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Revision as of 18:07, 5 August 2016
Port Williams (Greenwich), Nova Scotia
Mile 51.4 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision (Mile 67.15 from Halifax)
Facilities & Features
Commerce & Industry
The village of Port Williams was actually on the other side of the Cornwallis River but connected by a bridge to the Port Williams Station and several large businesses served by the DAR. Before WW II, they included five Apple Warehouses including some of the first first apple warehouses built on the DAR.[1]. After WW II, Port Williams hosted two large poultry producers, C&M Ells and Archibald Farms Limited as well as Canada Packers flour, feed and poultry plant and the Canadian Petrofina, later West Nova bulk fuel plant.
Port Williams (Greenwich) industries circa 1975.
Port Williams looking east on August 30, 2011.
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Description & History
Operations & Orders
Gallery
Topographic map from Kentville to Hortons Landing circa 1956.
Topographic map from Kentville to Hortons Landing circa 1956.
References & Footnotes
- Alexander MacNab, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab Nov 1, 1873
- 1969 Memorandum of General Information
- ↑ Willard Longley Map, Some Economic Aspects of the Apple Industry in Nova Scotia
