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File:KE-17.89 United Fruit Co.jpg|Track Chart, [[United Fruit Companies]] canning factory, [[Aylesford]], 1918. | File:KE-17.89 United Fruit Co.jpg|Track Chart, [[United Fruit Companies]] canning factory, [[Aylesford]], 1918. | ||
File:AylesfordPostcard.jpg|Colourized postcard of a DAR locomotive and westbound freight at [[Aylesford]] in front of the L. 0. Neilly warehouse, circa 1920s. | File:AylesfordPostcard.jpg|Colourized postcard of a DAR locomotive and westbound freight at [[Aylesford]] in front of the L. 0. Neilly warehouse, circa 1920s. | ||
| + | File:UFC Aylesford.jpeg|Postcard of the [[United Fruit Companies]] canning factory and evaporator, [[Aylesford]], with a DAR 4-6-0 locomotive, circa 1920s. | ||
File:Berwick_21_H2_West.jpg|Topographic map from Auburn to Aylesford circa 1956. | File:Berwick_21_H2_West.jpg|Topographic map from Auburn to Aylesford circa 1956. | ||
Image:Train No. 95.jpg|Dayliner [[Train No. 95]] en route to [[Yarmouth]] in first week of service at [[Aylesford]] August 27, 1956. | Image:Train No. 95.jpg|Dayliner [[Train No. 95]] en route to [[Yarmouth]] in first week of service at [[Aylesford]] August 27, 1956. | ||
Revision as of 19:18, 19 July 2021
Aylesford, Nova Scotia
Subdivision Kentville, Mile 17.5
Facilities & Features
Commerce & Industry
Six Apple Warehouses, east to west:[1]
- Aylesford Fruit and Produce Shipping Company warehouse, (1927) 15,000 barrel capy.
- Aylesford Fruit and Produce Shipping Company warehouse, (1927) 1,500 barrel capy.
- Aylesford Fruit Company/Acadia Fruit Company apple warehouse, (1927) 15,000 barrel capy.
- Aylesford Fruit and Produce Shipping Company warehouse, (1927) 10,000 barrel capy.
- L.O. Neilly apple warehouse, (1927) 10,0000 barrel capy.
- L.O. Neilly apple warehouse, (1927) 5,000 barrel capy.
E.G. Whitman Evaporator
United Fruit Companies Canning Factory and Evaporator, Mile 17.89
Description & History
Located at the beginning of the Annapolis River, the area was known to the Mi'kmaq as "Kobetek", or place of the beavers for the lodges in bogs along the river's headwaters, Aylesford was settled by New England Planters beginning in 1764, but the popular was greatly increased by Loyalists after the American Revolution in the 1780s. The names Aylesford was bestowed in 1786, like after the Earl of Aylesford, a prominent advisor to George III. The community quickly became a focus of farming and trade and emerged as a major centre of the apple industry in the early 1900s. Its central location in the valley led the United Fruit Companies to establish a large evaporator and canning plant at Aylesford, later taken over by Scotian Gold which ran until 1964 when Scotian Gold shifted production to the modernized factory in Coldbrook. [2]
Gallery
Aylesford to Kingston Aerial.
Track chart of Aylesford, showing the station, apple warehouses and water tower, 1918.
Track Chart, United Fruit Companies canning factory, Aylesford, 1918.
Colourized postcard of a DAR locomotive and westbound freight at Aylesford in front of the L. 0. Neilly warehouse, circa 1920s.
Postcard of the United Fruit Companies canning factory and evaporator, Aylesford, with a DAR 4-6-0 locomotive, circa 1920s.
Topographic map from Auburn to Aylesford circa 1956.
Dayliner Train No. 95 en route to Yarmouth in first week of service at Aylesford August 27, 1956.
Aylesford Station west end, looking along east apple warehouse spur September 1958.
CPR No. 8133 wayfreight en route to Annapolis Royal at Aylesford in August 1959.
Aylesford looking east in 1975.
VIA Rail sand platform at Aylesford. April, 1986.
VIA Rail sand platform at Aylesford. April, 1986.
1977 aerial photo of Aylesford.
1977 aerial photo of Aylesford.
1967 photo of Aylesford.
References & Footnotes
- Alexander MacNab, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab Nov 1, 1873
- 1969 Memorandum of General Information
