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Lakeville
Lakeville, Nova Scotia
Subdivision Weston, Mile 5.08
Previous Station: Billtown
Station, served by travelling agent. The station also served as dwelling for section foreman Stanley Veinot, his wife and five children.[1]
- Lakeville Fruit Company warehouse, Turner Road, Mile 3.78
- Herbert Oyler warehouse, Mile 3.79
- Siding, 1064 feet/18 cars and engine, with fruit warehouse Mile 5.08
- Herbert Oyler Tory Lane, apple warehouse, Mile 5.59
Apple Evaporator
Next Station: Woodville
The railway arrived in August 1913 when construction crews completed tracks and began running cars as far as Lakeville while construction continued further westward towards Weston.[2] Service ended and tracks were removed in 1961. Today Lakeville is home to the the former Billtown Station, formerly used for storage in an orchard, now being restored beside the old DAR right of way.
Gallery
The Herbert Oyler apple warehouse on Tory Lane in Lakeville, circa 1920.
Lakeville, 1923.
Lakeville Station, September 16, 1943.
Lakeville apple warehouse, October 2007
Detail chimney, Lakeville warehouse, October 2007
Detail ventilator, Lakeville warehouse, October 2007
Detail foundation, Lakeville warehouse, October 2007
Tory Lane apple warehouse, October 2007
Tory Lane apple warehouse, west wall, October 2007
Tory Lane apple warehouse, detail west wall, October 2007
Detail ventilator, Tory Lane apple warehouse, October 2007
References and Footnotes
- Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table September 25, 1949, Library and Archives Canada, PMP - HE.2804 DC
- 1915 North Mountain Line Track Profile, Library and Archives Canada, RG 12M 77803/17 Item 782
- Valley Gold, Anne Hutton, pages 79-90
