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Beaver Bank
Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia
Mile 2.9 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision (Mile 18.62 from Halifax)
- Next Station East: Windsor Junction
- Next Station West: Fenerty's
Facilities & Features
- Station, until May 1956
Commerce and Industry
- 400 foot spur (in 1969) for lumber exports
Description & History
Believed to be named after a large beaver dam by the first Loyalists settlers in the 1780s, Beaver Bank was the location of construction camps and taverns in the mid 1850s during the construction of the Windsor Branch of the Nova Scotia Railway and the site of a major Protestant-Catholic riot between railway workers. The railway opened in June 1857 with a station and freight shed at Beaver Bank. It was replaced by an Intercolonial Railway style station in 1886.[1] The station served the Sackville/Beaver Bank area until May 1956 when it was replaced by a flag stop. The station was sold and moved to be a private residence, but in the mid 1960's it was destroyed by fire. The first station master was Daniel Hallisey, an Irish immigrant and railway builder. He built a house and inn next to the station. It was replaced after a fire in 1872, serving as a telegraph and post office and still stands today beside the tracks at Beaver Bank Road (Route 354). The last train across the tracks at Beaver Bank was on November 2, 2010.[2]
Gallery
Topographic map from Stillwater to Windsor Junction circa 1956.
Beaver Bank station sign, April 21, 1963.
