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File:201580134.jpg|[[Hantsport]] Station with crowds gathered for a VIP train showing the [[Hantsport Water Tower]] and the Hantsport Fruit Basket Company, possibly during the 1901 [[:Category:Royal Trains|royal visit]].
 
File:201580134.jpg|[[Hantsport]] Station with crowds gathered for a VIP train showing the [[Hantsport Water Tower]] and the Hantsport Fruit Basket Company, possibly during the 1901 [[:Category:Royal Trains|royal visit]].
 
File:201580008.jpg|[[Hantsport]] viewed looking east from boxcar on the Hantsport team track with the [[Hantsport Station]], the [[G.H. Yeaton Warehouse]] and the [[Laurie Sanford Apple Warehouse|Sandford apple warehouse]], circa 1895.
 
File:201580008.jpg|[[Hantsport]] viewed looking east from boxcar on the Hantsport team track with the [[Hantsport Station]], the [[G.H. Yeaton Warehouse]] and the [[Laurie Sanford Apple Warehouse|Sandford apple warehouse]], circa 1895.
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File:HantsportHeckman.JPG|The first [[Hantsport Station]], photographed by CPR photographer [[:Category:Joseph Heckman Photo|Joseph Heckman]], circa October 1910.
 
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Hantsport Station

Wood Station c. 1870 - 1943

Hantsport did not have a station when the Windsor and Annapolis Railway first began operations through the town in 1869[1] The first Hantsport station was a standard Windsor and Annapolis passenger and freight station built circa 1870.

Description:[2]

  • Station Building, 40' x 22'
  • Station Platform, 200' x 14'
  • Water Tank (pump), 15' x 14'

The first station was destroyed in a fire in 1943.[3]

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Brick Station 1944 - Present

It was replaced by a Tudor revival station, similar to the Bridgetown Station, based on the standard CPR Station Design No. 16.[4] The new station was completed in 1944 making it one of the last stations built by the DAR. It is protected by both federal and provincial heritage laws, designated a historic railway station by the federal government in 1992[5], which means it cannot be demolished or altered without federal alteration[6] and was further designated as a provincial heritage building in 1995.[7]

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References and Footnotes

External Links

Harry Jost and Barry Moody, "Canadian Pacific Railway Station Hantsport, Nova Scotia", Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada Railway Station Report, RSR-097, 1991, Canadian Pacific Historical Association Documents Library