Grand Pre Water Tower

A standard CPR semi-enclosed water tank, the water tower at Grand Pre was built in June 1922 to provide water the memorial gardens of the Grand Pre Park and to provide water to DAR locomotives. It used an artesian well and replaced the older and smaller Wolfville Water Tower which dated to the days of the Windsor and Annapolis Railway.^[1]

Gallery

Article and photos of the construction of the Grand Pre Park memorial chapel and the Grand Pre Water Tower, "Memorial Building at Grand Pre" in The Acadian, June 9, 1922.
Both the new (right) and the old stationsand Grand Pre Water Tower, circa 1925.
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, 1931 viewed from the south showing the Grand Pre Station, Water Tower and fruit warehouses in the foreground with the memorial park behind.
Grand Pre air view from east with the Grand Pre Station, Water Tower and memorial park with Wolfville in distance, 1931.
Post card made from air view of Grand Pre Station, Grand Pre Water Tower and Grand Pre Park, 1931.
Queen Annapolisa VI in the coronation ceremony at Grand Pre Park with Grand Pre Water Tower, British Canadian Fruit Association warehouse and DAR Boxcar 1330 in work train, June 5, 1938.
DAR No. 1046 stops at Grand Pre Station on October 8, 1956. One of the crew is at the base of the water tower.