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File:TO - 19170112 - NewRRStation - Open19170108.jpg | Newspaper Article from ''The Outlook'' about the completion of the [[Middleton Station]] by [[J. H. Hicks & Sons]], Jan. 8, 1917. | File:TO - 19170112 - NewRRStation - Open19170108.jpg | Newspaper Article from ''The Outlook'' about the completion of the [[Middleton Station]] by [[J. H. Hicks & Sons]], Jan. 8, 1917. | ||
File:The Acadian 1921-Sept-30.jpg|[[The Acadian 1921 - Sept - 30 - New Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse|"Some Warehouse", ''The Acadian'' 1921 Sept 30 - New Grand Pre Fruit Co. Warehouse]] article about a [[J. H. Hicks & Sons]] reconstruction, Sept. 30, 1921. | File:The Acadian 1921-Sept-30.jpg|[[The Acadian 1921 - Sept - 30 - New Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse|"Some Warehouse", ''The Acadian'' 1921 Sept 30 - New Grand Pre Fruit Co. Warehouse]] article about a [[J. H. Hicks & Sons]] reconstruction, Sept. 30, 1921. | ||
| − | File:Gazette 1921 12 09 DAR Improvements and Bridgetown Station.jpg|Article on the new [[Bridgetown Station]] built by J. H. Hicks & Sons, the start of the [[Midnight]] trains, a new [[Digby Station]], and [[Cornwallis Hotel|Aberdeen Hotel]] renovations, Dec 9, 1921. | + | File:Gazette 1921 12 09 DAR Improvements and Bridgetown Station.jpg|Article on the new [[Bridgetown Station]] built by J. H. Hicks & Sons, the start of the [[Midnight]] trains, a new [[Digby Station]], and [[Cornwallis Hotel|Aberdeen Hotel]] renovations, Dec 9, 1921. See [[The_Gazette_1921_Dec_9_DAR_Improvements_and_New_Bridgetown_Station|article text.]] |
File:Weekly Monitor 1923-May-9.jpg|''Weekly Monitor'' newspaper article on contract for [[J. H. Hicks & Sons]] to build a new [[Apple Warehouses|apple warehouse]] for the [[Berwick Fruit|Berwick Fruit Company]], May 9, 1923. | File:Weekly Monitor 1923-May-9.jpg|''Weekly Monitor'' newspaper article on contract for [[J. H. Hicks & Sons]] to build a new [[Apple Warehouses|apple warehouse]] for the [[Berwick Fruit|Berwick Fruit Company]], May 9, 1923. | ||
File:Weekly Monitor 1924 June 11.jpg|''Weekly Monitor'' newspaper article on the new [[Apple Warehouses|apple warehouse]] for the [[Lawrencetown]] Fruit Growers Limited, being built by the [[J. H. Hicks & Sons]], June 11, 1924. | File:Weekly Monitor 1924 June 11.jpg|''Weekly Monitor'' newspaper article on the new [[Apple Warehouses|apple warehouse]] for the [[Lawrencetown]] Fruit Growers Limited, being built by the [[J. H. Hicks & Sons]], June 11, 1924. | ||
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J. H. Hicks & Sons of Bridgetown was a construction firm and lumber mill that built the majority of the valley's apple warehouses[1] as well as many stations on the Dominion Atlantic. It was located of the north side of Bridgetown, served by the Halifax and South Western Railway. The company also operated an apple warehouse served by a spur from the H&SW.[2] The company was founded by John Harry Hicks Junior in 1891, initially based near the Bridgetown wharves on the river, but later moving north to the tracks of the Halifax and South Western Railway, where Church Street changed to Hampton Mountain Road. Hicks had four sons, one of whom Harry Hicks would become premier of Nova Scotia.[3] An important employee was Albert Marshall of Port Lorne, who was regarded as the leading builder of apple warehouses in the Annapolis Valley.[4]
Examples of apple warehouses built by Hicks include: Berwick Fruit; the Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse; the Currys Corner Fruit Co warehouse in Pembertons and the Lawrencetown Fruit Company Warehouse.
Stations built by Hicks include: Bridgetown Station, Middleton Station, Lawrencetown Station and the Billtown Station and the H&SW Yarmouth Station.
Gallery
Note in the Engineering and Contract Record on contract to build a new apple warehouse for the Curry's Corner Fruit Company in Pembertons by J. H. Hicks & Sons, 1914.
Note in the Engineering and Contract Record on contract to build a new station in Yarmouth for the Halifax & South Western Railway by the J. H. Hicks & Sons company, November 1915.
Canadian Railway and Marine World note on contract for new Middleton Station awarded to J. H. Hicks & Sons, Oct. 1916.
Newspaper Article from The Outlook about the completion of the Middleton Station by J. H. Hicks & Sons, Jan. 8, 1917.
"Some Warehouse", The Acadian 1921 Sept 30 - New Grand Pre Fruit Co. Warehouse article about a J. H. Hicks & Sons reconstruction, Sept. 30, 1921.
Article on the new Bridgetown Station built by J. H. Hicks & Sons, the start of the Midnight trains, a new Digby Station, and Aberdeen Hotel renovations, Dec 9, 1921. See article text.
Weekly Monitor newspaper article on contract for J. H. Hicks & Sons to build a new apple warehouse for the Berwick Fruit Company, May 9, 1923.
Weekly Monitor newspaper article on the new apple warehouse for the Lawrencetown Fruit Growers Limited, being built by the J. H. Hicks & Sons, June 11, 1924.
The J. H. Hicks & Sons mill complex, photographed by Stephen Archibald, 1960s.
References
- ↑ Willard V. Longley, Some Economic Aspects of the Apple Industry in Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture as Bulletin No. 113 (1934), p. 51
- ↑ Dominion Atlantic Railway, DAR Chart of Apple and Produce Warehouses, February 23, 1927
- ↑ Phil Coleman, "Hicks Family of Bridgetown, NS", Vintage Valley NS Photographs,Moments & Memories, Facebook Post, July 27, 2020
- ↑ "Some Warehouse", The Acadian 1921 Sept 30 - New Grand Pre Fruit Company Warehouse
