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Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse
- Mile 46.2 on the [[:Category:Subdivision Halifax|Halifax Subdivisionm
- Served by the shared 1,580 foot Grand Pre warehouse siding.
The Grand Pre Fruit Company was a co-operative of several apple farmers in the Grand Pre area. They began meeting in 1911. Initial subscribers included: Henry Chipman, Nathan E. Coldwell, Ayrton Johnson, E. Vernon Gould, Fred A. Palmeter, Joseph A. Allen, J. Everett Palmeter, Jehiel Davison, Guy P. Fuller, Fredrick L. Mitchell, Charles F. A. Patterson, Joseph Allen, Roy W. Woodman, and A. H. Westcott. S. A. Bowser and S. H. Trenholm.[1] In April 1912, the company, officially known as the "Grand Pre Fruit and Packing Company", purchased an older warehouse[2] from W. C. Hamilton.[3] In 1921, the company hired J. H. Hicks & Sons, a building contractor from Bridgetown, to rebuild and extend the 40' x 100' warehouse east of the level crossing at Grand Pre.[4] The reconstructed warehouse was completed in September 1921 and doubled the warehouse size to 40' x 200', as well as shifting it slightly to the south.[5] By 1927, the warehouse could hold 20,000 barrels of apples and the company had taken over a 10,000 barrel warehouse at nearby Horton Landing.[6] The company continued in business until 1978.[7] The warehouse was converted to other uses, including a carpentry shop and dance studio in the 1990s, but was destroyed by fire in 2008.[8]
Gallery
Article in the The Acadian about the Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse reconstruction by J. H. Hicks & Sons, Sept. 30, 1921.
Detail of circuit camera shot of Evangeline statue with the station, and warehouses in the background, including the Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse to the far left, Aug. 16, 1922.
Grand Pre showing the 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 Station looking east, ballast train and the Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse on right, circa 1940s.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ R. Perry Fuller, "Grand Pré Fruit Company – The Beginnings", Grand Pré & Area Community Association Newsletter, October 2021, Vol. 7, No. 1
- ↑ Company Minutes at Novamuse
- ↑ "Grand Pre Fruit & Packing Co buy W. C. Hamilton warehouse", The Acadian April 26, 1912
- ↑ The Weekly Monitor, Vol. XLIX, No. 4 April 1921
- ↑ "Some Warehouse", The Acadian 1921 Sept 30 - New Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse
- ↑ Dominion Atlantic Railway, DAR Chart of Apple and Produce Warehouses, February 23, 1927
- ↑ "Minutes of what appears to be the final directors' meeting dated May 20, 1977. They decided that "the Company registration remain as is for the present time." The company's final Royal Bank statement and final cheque dated October 10, 1978. Personal communication from Perry Fuller, July 15, 2021
- ↑ "Fire guts apple warehouse in Grand Pré", CBC News, May 20, 2008
