Canning

Canning, Nova Scotia

Mile 10.7 Kingsport Subdivision

• Next Station West: Hillaton
• Next Station East: Pereau

Facilities

Canning Station, Mile 10.7

17 car siding with three apple warehouses:

• Canning Fruit Company Warehouse/Kent Foods Apple Juice Plant
• Herbert Oyler Warehouse/Kent Foods Warehouse
• Maple Leaf Fruit Company/Kent Foods Warehouse

Spur, eastbound switch for:

• Maple Leaf Fruit Company Warehouse
• R.W. Graves Vinegar Factory

• Sangster/R.W. DeWolfe Company Warehouse, Mile 9.9

South leg of Canning Wye, 3300' spur to Canning wharf, c. Mile 9.8 (Spur active circa 1914-1920, mainly for Borden private railway car)

North leg of Canning Wye, Canning Wharf spur, c. Mile 10.1

Canning Bridge, small pile trestle bridge over stream, c. mile 10.3

Gallery

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  Locomotive No. 31 at Canning Station with the Oyler apple warehouse under construction.

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  Locomotive No. 33 with Van No. 435786, location given as Canning.

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  Topographic map from Kentville to Hortons Landing circa 1956.

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  Oyler apple warehouse, now Canning fire hall, October 2007

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  Kent Food warehouse, Canning, October 2007

References and Footnotes

• Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table September 25, 1949, Library and Archives Canada, pmp -HE.2804 DC
• Canning Library and Heritage Centre Historical Calendar 2000
• DAR Chart of Apple Warehouses Feb. 12, 1927, Leon Barron Collection