Subject Caption Title: Nova Scotia from the Air The Richard McCully Aerial Photograph Collection, 1931

Description Information: Date: July 1931

Format: glass plate negative; 12.5 cm x 17.5 cm.

Reference no.: McCully Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 2012-010/001 no. 36 | negative no. 284

Aerial View of Berwick with Zoom function on NS Archives

Courtesy of Nova Scotia Archives

Berwick Railyard in 1931, showing the tracks and industries, primarily the apple industry, that they served. The photograph was taken in May 1931 by Richard McCully and David Reid, air photographers from Moncton, New Brunswick. Starting from the Berwick Station in centre, railway buildings from clockwise are: Pleasant Valley Apple Warehouse; S.B. Chute apple warehouse; level crossing of Commerical Street; R.J. Graham Evaporator and attached apple warehouse; P.L. Morse apple warehouse (with false front); another S.B. Chute Warehouse; Berwick Fruit applew arehouse, level crossing of Foster Street; oil unloading racks for Robinson's Imperial Oil dealership.

A creation of this view in HO scale is being constructed by volunteers and can be visited during the summer at Berwick's Apple Capital Museum.

References

Ronald Illsley, Berwick 2008, pages 140-141.

Dan Soucoup, New Brunswick from the Air, page 3.