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Stillwater Lake
Stillwater Lake, Nova Scotia
Mile 19.00 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision (Mile 34.81 from Halifax)
Elevation: 430 feet above sea level
- Next Station East: Claremont's
- Next Station West: Stillwater
Facilities & Features
- Flag stop
Description & History
Five Mile Lake, to the south of the DAR line, was dammed in 1922[1] to provide a water supply for the St. Margaret's Bay Hydro Power Plant.[2] This made the lake much larger and brought the shoreline of the lake right beside the railway a half mile east of the Stillwater station. The new lakefront location beside the rails created easy access for boaters and fishermen resulted in a small seasonal recreation community beside the tracks know as "Stillwater Lake". It first appears on DAR timetables in 1929.[3]
Railway employees could travel to Stillwater Lake for free with their railway passes so Stillwater Lake became a popular location for DAR families to build fishing cabins[4] some built with old caboose and passenger stoves and fitted with surplus passenger car windows.[5]
Gallery
Topographic map from Stillwater to Windsor Junction circa 1956.
References & Footnotes
- ↑ Gillian Fielding, "Barriers to Fish Passage in Nova Scotia: The Evolution of Water Control Barriers in Nova Scotia’s Watershed", table A.1, page 63
- ↑ "St.Margarets Bay Hydro-electricity Plants, Green Renewable Power Since 1922", St. Margarets Bay.com
- ↑ 1929 Dominion Atlantic Railway Passenger Time Table - June 21, 1929
- ↑ Kentville Advertiser references: Conductor William Lightie cutting & storing ice at his cottage for summer use - Feb. 18, 1937, Conductors and pensioners get good fishing - May 27, 1937, More fishing noted at Stillwater by trainman & engineer June 3, 1937, Conductor William Lightie & wife to Stillwater to reopen camp - May 5, 1938, William & Mrs Young, Kingsport, vacation with Dan McIvor at Stillwater - May 26, 1938
- ↑ Oral History related to Dan Conlin by Leon Barron
