Waterville, Nova Scotia

Subdivision Kentville, Mile 9.3

Next Station East: Cambridge
Next Station West: Berwick

Facilities & Features

Waterville Station
Wood shed 22' x 15'
Tracks in 1873: 850' siding and *600' spur^[1]
Tracks in Later years: 1019' siding and five spurs for apple warehouses.

Commerce & Industry

Annapolis Valley Canners Limited: canning factory, apples and small fruits

Apple warehouses, west to east:

C. O. Cook, 1900
W.H. Chase, later Herbert Oyler, 1899
Northard and Lowe, later S. M. Chute,1899
Ambrose Stanley Banks, later Cornwallis Fruit Company 1906
Waterville Fruit Company, F.M. Chute 1910
Northard and Lowe, later British Canadian Fruit Assoication, 1919
Buchanan Fruit Company,1922

Description & History

Originally known as Pineo Village, it was renamed "Waterville" in 1871 shortly after the arrival of the Windsor & Annapolis Railway in 1869.^[2] It was an early centre of agriculture and received one of the larger stations along the Windsor & Annapolis.

Gallery

Topographic map from Berwick to Kentville circa 1956.
The Waterville co-operative apple warehouse, featured in Farmer's Magazine January-December 1915.
Waterville apple warehouses with W.H. Chase warehouse in foreground, Northard and Lowe warehouse in middle and Ambrose Stanley Banks warehouse in distance, 1916.
C.P.R. track profile drawing showing Waterville, March 18, 1918, with updates to 1926.
A.V. “Ven” Cook and his wife Greta at the Waterville Station, 1930s.
Waterville with eastbound train at the Waterville Station with boxcars at two apple warehouses, 1930s.
Six-year-old Bill Young at Waterville with father Vaughan Young in the cab of DAR locomotive 33 "Glooscap", circa 1925.
Waterville Station, circa 1950-51.
The Waterville Station looking west, with the Annapolis Valley Canners buildings on the left, 1958.
The Waterville Station near the end of its dayys with fire hall in background, 1967.
Canadian National insulated boxcar 291735 sitting on the mainline in Waterville, after rolling out of control from the Berwick Bakery circa 1980.
VIA Rail shelter at Waterville with the Annapolis Valley Canners buildings in the background, April 1986.
Photo from 2006 of signage on the Cornwallis Fruit Company apple warehouse in Waterville, a member of the United Fruit Companies co-op.