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Mount Uniacke
Mount Uniacke, Nova Scotia
Mile 12.8 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision (Mile 28.51 from Halifax)
- Next Station East: South Uniacke
- Next Station West: Stillwater Lake
Facilities & Features
- Mount Uniacke Station
- Mount Uniacke Water Tower
- Passing Track 1738 feet in length
Commerce & Industry
Description & History
Mount Uniacke was named in 1830 after the large country estate of Richard John Uniacke located nearby. The Nova Scotia Railway arrived in 1857 and a year later built a small depot at Mount Uniacke Station. Gold was discovered nearby in 1862, triggering a gold rush which led to stores and hotels clustering around the station. A new station was built in 1884 and served until 1963. The last train passed through in 2010 when the Windsor and Hantsport Railway who had taken over the DAR's tracks ceased operations.
Gallery
Passenger train stopped at Mount Uniacke Water Tower on November 8, 1919.
Dayliner No. 9059 at Mount Uniacke, August 9, 1957.
Topographic map from Stillwater to Windsor Junction circa 1956.
Wayfreight from Windsor Junction to Kentville passes Mount Uniacke Water Tower on July 31, 1958.
Mount Uniacke Water Tower and westbound tracks, photographed by Harold Jenkins, December 4, 1960.
Mount Uniacke Station, photographed by Harold Jenkins, June 20, 1960.
Mount Uniacke station in 1961.
References & Footnotes
- 1969 Memorandum of General Information
- C. Bruce Fergusson, "Beaver Bank", Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Archives (1967), p. 47.
