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==Digby Pines Resort Hotel== | ==Digby Pines Resort Hotel== | ||
| − | The | + | The Pines was built in 1905 just outside [[Digby]] on a hill overlooking the Annapolis Basin and Digby Gut. The DAR purchased the hotel in 1917. It was expanded rebuilt by the railway in 1929. A seasonal operation from June to September, it included 31 cottages. A large golf course was part of the hotel which included some old railway cuttings of the original approach tracks to Digby from the old Western Counties Railway. The hotel still operates today, even through the DAR trains and steamers are long gone. |
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
Revision as of 09:34, 2 September 2008
Digby Pines Resort Hotel
The Pines was built in 1905 just outside Digby on a hill overlooking the Annapolis Basin and Digby Gut. The DAR purchased the hotel in 1917. It was expanded rebuilt by the railway in 1929. A seasonal operation from June to September, it included 31 cottages. A large golf course was part of the hotel which included some old railway cuttings of the original approach tracks to Digby from the old Western Counties Railway. The hotel still operates today, even through the DAR trains and steamers are long gone.
Gallery
Digby Pines viewed from the Digby Wharf in 1954.
References and Footnotes
- Marguerite Woodworth, History of the Dominion Atlantic Railway, page 143, 145-147.
