Frank Rand Maple Leaf Fruit Warehouse

Frank Rand/Maple Leaf Fruit Warehouse Canning

Mile 10.8 on the Kingsport Subdivision at Canning

• Served by east facing spur, south of the mainline, shared with the vinegar plant, coal shed and freight dock
• Unusual configuration: one story, low pitched roof with skylights
• 8,500 barrel capacity
• Wooden construction with metal plate siding

History

This warehouse was built soon after the Cornwallis Railway arrived in Canning about 1890 by British Apple Broker Frank Rand of London, England. It was an unusual design, whcih differed from most Apple Warehouses in Nova Scotia as it was only one story, instead of a story and a half and had a low pitched roof with metal plate siding. By 1927, it had become part of the Maple Leaf Fruit Co-op. It still existed in 1940 as shown on the Canning Fire Insurance Plan of 1940 but was gone by the mid 1950s, probably being demolished after the collapse of the apple export industry just after the Second World War.

Gallery

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  The Frank Rand & Co./Maple Leaf Fruit Company Warehouse, looking east in Canning, circa 1900.

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  Detail from photograph of the Canning Station showing the Frank Rand & Co./Maple Leaf Fruit Company Warehouse in the background

References and Footnotes

• Dominion Atlantic Railway, DAR Chart of Apple and Produce Warehouses, February 23, 1927