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Mount Uniacke Station
Mount Uniacke Station
First Station 1857-1884
The Nova Scotia Railway built a small depot, 40 feet x 20 feet for a cost of £249 in 1857.[1] The first station agent was W. Hamilton. He was replaced in 1859 by Richard McLearn. The station was connected by telegraph in 1862.[2] Members of the McLearn family would serve as station agents until 1932.[3]
Second Station 1884-1963
In November 1884, Mount Uniacke received a new station[4] , built by the Intercolonial Railway, as the Windsor Branch of the Halifax Subdivision was still owned by the Intercolonial. It was similar in style to the Bear River and Clementsport Stations.
In 1902, Ida Robinson, a recent widow, became the station agent, and raised her large family in the living quarters at the west end of the station.[5] In 1959, Allen Benedict, the son of a MOW worker at Mount Uniacke became the station agent after serving in other DAR stations. He served as station agent until 1963 when the station was closed.[6]
Gallery
Track schematic for Mount Uniacke showing the Mount Uniacke Station and a wye, undated.
Mount Uniacke Station - circa 1910.
Mount Uniacke Station, photographed by Harold Jenkins, June 20, 1960.
Mount Uniacke station in 1961.
Mt. Uniacke Station as built in 1884, drawn by Barbara Davidson, 1993.
References
- ↑ James Laurie, Report on the Nova-Scotia Railway: its present condition and probable cost, by James Laurie, Civil Engineer, February 5th, 1858, page 52, (1858).
- ↑ Sadie Siroy, Doorsteps and Crossroads: Stories from Mount Uniacke, Lakelands, Hillsvale and South Rawdon (1993), p.3
- ↑ John MacDonald, website, YourRailwayPictures.com
- ↑ C. Bruce Fergusson, "Mount Uniacke", Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Archives (1967), p. 458.
- ↑ Siroy, p. 12
- ↑ Siroy, p. 8
