Grand Pre Station

Windsor & Annapolis Railway Wood Station 1869 - 1925

The first station at Grand Pre was a simple 40' x 22' structure built on the south side of the tracks, one of the medium sized stations built by the Windsor and Annapolis Railway in 1869.

The following information was forwarded to the DARDPI by Heather Watts of the Wolfville Historical Society :

The station master here in the 1870s was Andrew Borden, father of Robert L. Borden, later Prime Minister of Canada. In 1915 when the Prime Minister's mother died in Grand Pre he recorded the following: "On March 26, an alarming telegram reached me; and I left immediately by special train for Grand Pre, arriving in twenty-five-and-a-half hours from Ottawa....my brother Hal and I slept on the private car and early in the morning of March 29, we learned that mother had passed away....."

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  Grand Pre Station, hand tinted.

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  Grand Pre Station with DAR boxcar.

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  Grand Pre Station and apple warehouse.

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  Both the new (right) and the old stations circa 1925.

Dominion Atlantic Railway Log Station 1925 - Present

The CPR built a log cabin and fieldstone station on the north side of the tracks in 1925. Heather Watt of the Wolfville Historical Society reports that "The Grand Pre station was pulled across the dyke and re-erected on the bluff at Evangeline Beach, where it still stands, as a private cottage."

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  Both the new (right) and the old stations circa 1925.

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  Grand Pre, 1931 viewed from the south showing the Grand Pre Station, Water Tower and fruit warehouses in the foreground with the memorial park behind.

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  Post card air view of Grand Pre Station, Grand Pre Water Tower and Grand Pre Park. c. 1931.

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  Grand Pre Station.

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  Grand Pre Station on August 27, 1956.

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  DAR No. 1046 stops at Grand Pre Station on October 8, 1956. One of the crew is at the base of the water tower.

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  July 1958