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Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse
- Mile 46.2 on the Halifax Subdivision
- Served by the shared 1,580 foot Grand Pre warehouse siding.
History
The Grand Pre Fruit Company was a co-operative of several apple farmers in the Grand Pre area. The company purchased and older warehouse next to the station from W. C. Hamilton in April 1912.[1] In April 1921, the company hired J. H. Hicks & Sons, a building contractor from Bridgetown to build a large new warehouse east of the level crossing at Grand Pre.[2] The warehouse could hold 20,000 barrels of apples. [3] The warehouse was converted into a carpentry shop and dance studio in the 1990s but was destroyed by fire in 2008.[4]
Gallery
Detail of circuit camera shot of Evangeline statue with the station, and warehouses in the background, including the Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse to the far left, Aug. 16, 1922.
Photograph of Grand Pre showing the Grand Pre memorial church; the Grand Pre Water Tower and apple warehouses, including the Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse at the far right, circa 1925.
Grand Pre Station looking east, ballast train and the Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse on right, circa 1940s.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ "Grand Pre Fruit & Packing Co buy W. C. Hamilton warehouse", The Acadian April 26, 1912
- ↑ The Weekly Monitor, Vol. XLIX, No. 4 April 1921
- ↑ Dominion Atlantic Railway, DAR Chart of Apple and Produce Warehouses, February 23, 1927
- ↑ "Fire guts apple warehouse in Grand Pré", CBC News, May 20, 2008
