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| − | The Scotia Gold Co-operative was created in 1957, evolving out of the old United Fruit Companies co-operative of apple growers who worked together to store, pack, ship and market their apples together in co-op warehouses all along the DAR. To cope with the collapse of the British apple export market, Scotia Gold built a centralized cold storage and food processing plant at [[Coldbrook]] in 1946 to process apples more efficiently and develop new products. It steadily expanded in the 1950s and 60s until it occupied a large site on both sides of the DAR mainline at Coldbrook. Scotia Gold had a long private spur at Mile 4.2 on the [[:Category:Subdivision Kentville|Kentville Subdivision]] serving the plant, its cold storage warehouses capacity of 240,000 bins of apples, along with the co-op's fertilizer operation, Valley Fertilizer Limited. Scotia Gold was a large DAR customer generating hundreds of inbound and outbound cars until the decline of the the DAR in the 1980s. The Scotia Gold facility remains the largest apple plant in the Maritimes, processing 50% of the region's apple crop.
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| − | ==Gallery==
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| − | Image:DAR main line at Coldbrook.jpg|Spur to Scotia Gold at [[Coldbrook]], 1993
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| − | ==References and Footnotes==
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| − | *[[1969-MemoOfGenInfo|1969 Memorandum of General Information Corporate Info, page 10]]
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| − | *[[19611029-DARETT|1961 Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table - October 29, 1961]], page 4
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| − | *Maire Bishop, "Memories of Coldbrook" (1999) Kings Historical Society, p. 76
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| − | *''Valley Gold'' by Ann Hutton
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| − | ==External Links==
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| − | [http://www.scotiangold.com/about-us History of Scotia Gold]] | |
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| − | [[Category:Commerce and Industry]]
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| − | [[Category:Apple Warehouses]]
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