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Port Williams
Port Williams (Greenwich), Nova Scotia
Mile 51.4 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision (Mile 67.15 from Halifax)
Facilities & Features
Commerce & Industry
The village of Port Williams was actually on the other side of the Cornwallis River but connected by a bridge to the Port Williams Station and several large businesses served by the DAR. Before WW II, they included five Apple Warehouses including some of the first first apple warehouses built on the DAR.[1]. After WW II, Port Williams hosted two large poultry producers, C&M Ells and Archibald Farms Limited as well as Canada Packers flour, feed and poultry plant and the Canadian Petrofina, later West Nova bulk fuel plant.
Port Williams showing the Port Williams Station, fruit warehouses and the ruins of an evaporator, August 1931.
Port Williams Station and Port Williams siding, November 1958.
Port Williams Station, looking west to the United Fruit Co. warehouse, summer, early fall 1973 just before demolition.
Port Williams (Greenwich) industries circa 1975.
Port Williams looking east on August 30, 2011.
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Description & History
Operations & Orders
Gallery
Topographic map from Kentville to Hortons Landing circa 1956.
Topographic map from Kentville to Hortons Landing circa 1956.
References & Footnotes
- Alexander MacNab, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab Nov 1, 1873
- 1969 Memorandum of General Information
- ↑ Willard Longley Map, Some Economic Aspects of the Apple Industry in Nova Scotia
