Frank Rand Maple Leaf Fruit Warehouse

Frank Rand/Maple Leaf Fruit Warehouse Canning

Mile 10.8 on the Kingsport Subdivision at Canning

• Served by east facing spur, south of the mainline, shared with the vinegar plant, coal shed and freight dock
• Unusual configuration: one story, low pitched roof with skylights
• 8,500 barrel capacity
• Wooden construction with metal plate siding

History

This Apple Warehouse was built about 1890, soon after the Cornwallis Valley Railway arrived in Canning, by British Apple Broker Frank Rand of London, England. It had an unusual design, which differed from most Apple Warehouses in Nova Scotia as it was only one storey, instead of a storey and a half and had a low-pitched roof with metal plate siding. By 1927, it had become part of the Maple Leaf Fruit Co-op, which was part of the United Fruit Companies network. The warehouse still existed in 1940 as shown on the Canning Fire Insurance Plan of that year but was gone by the mid 1950s, probably being demolished after the collapse of the apple export industry just after the Second World War.

Gallery

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  The Frank Rand & Co./Maple Leaf Fruit Company Warehouse, looking east in Canning, circa 1900.

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  Detail from photograph of the Canning Station showing the Frank Rand & Co./Maple Leaf Fruit Company Warehouse in the background, 1930s.

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  Fire Insurance plan detail for Canning showing buildings by the Station including the Maple Leaf Fruit Co. Warehouses and the Frank Rand & Co. Warehouse at centre, marked with a "3", July 1940.

References and Footnotes

• Dominion Atlantic Railway, DAR Chart of Apple and Produce Warehouses, February 23, 1927