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Waterville

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Waterville, Nova Scotia

Subdivision Kentville, Mile 9.3

Facilities & Features

Commerce & Industry

  • Annapolis Valley Canners Limited: canning factory, apples and small fruits
  • Four apple warehouses

Description & History

Originally known as Pineo Village, it wad renamed "Waterville" in 1871 shortly after the arrival of the Windsor & Annapolis Railway in 1869.[1] It was an early centre of agriculture and received one of the larger stations along the Windsor & Annapolis.

Gallery

  • Topographic map from Berwick to Kentville circa 1956.

  • The Waterville Station looking west, August 1958.

  • VIA Rail shelter at Waterville. April 1986.

References & Footnotes

  1. ↑ *"Waterville", Places and Placenames of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Archives, p. 711.

Reference Tag

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