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Annapolis Royal Wharf
Annapolis Royal Wharf
The Windsor and Annapolis Railway built a large railway wharf at Annapolis Royal as their terminus. It provided a key connection to passenger and freight steamships. As built, the wharf was 450 feet long and 98 feet wide at the face and included a float and three wharf spurs which allowed W&A trains to meet steamships at the wharf and quickly transfer passengers and freight. [1] After the missing link between Digby and Annapolis Royal was completed, steamship traffic shifted to the Digby Wharf. The Annapolis Royal wharf continued to be used for freight until after World War Two. It became the Government Wharf, a function that continues today serving fishing vessels, a small ship yard and visiting yachts.
Annapolis Royal Railway Wharf as a W&AR train meets the paddlewheeler Empress with a W&AR monitor-top baggage car, a ventilated box car & flat car, circa 1800.
Windsor & Annapolis Railway engraving of the Annapolis Royal Wharf, 1893.
Annapolis Royal wharves with the SS City of Monticella and SS Evangeline, circa 1890 the end of the line for the W&A.
Postcard showing the Annapolis Royal Wharf and lumber flat cars, circa 1906.
Air view of Annapolis Royal with the Annapolis Royal Enginehouse centre right; the Annapolis Royal Fruit warehouse at centre; the somewhat rundown Railway Wharf centre left and the Acadia Steamship Co. wharf and warehouse on far left, July 1931.
