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File:Grand Pre Station a.jpg
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The old Grand Pre station looking west after the western apple warehouse had been built. The station master here in the 1870s was Andrew Borden, father of Robert L. Borden, later Prime Minister of Canada. In 1915 when the Prime Minister's mother died in Grand Pre he recorded the following: "On March 26, an alarming telegram reached me; and I left immediately by special train for Grand Pre, arriving in twenty-five-and-a-half hours from Ottawa....my brother Hal and I slept on the private car and early in the morning of March 29, we learned that mother had passed away....." (Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs, Vol. I, McClelland & Stewart, 1969)
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| current | 09:16, 23 June 2008 | | 1,667 × 1,005 (1.04 MB) | Stem (talk | contribs) | The old Grand Pre station looking west. The station master here in the 1870s was Andrew Borden, father of Robert L. Borden, later Prime Minister of Canada. In 1915 when the Prime Minister's mother died in Grand Pre he recorded the following: "On March |
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