M. Allen Gibson

Gibson grew up in Wolfville in the 1930s and went on to become a writer for the Halifax Chronicle Herald and a United Church minister in Nova Scotia. He was an keen train watcher and photographer in his youth, photographing many DAR locomotives, most often from the vantage point of Wolfville Station in the late 1930s. He published his photographs, memories and operational details of 1930s DAR trains in a book entitled Train Time: Nostalgic Glimpses of A Wolfville Boyhood During Which Train Watching was a Happy Pastime, published in 1973.