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Wilmot
Wilmot, Nova Scotia
Subdivision Kentville, Mile 27.1
Facilities & Features
Commerce & Industry
- England's Furniture
- Frenchies
- Torbrook Mines Spur
Description & History
Wilmot was the junction for a three mile spur to Torbook Mines which crossed the Annapolis River and ran south to the iron mines in Torbrook. The spur was completed in the fall of 1891 by the Torbrook Iron Company to serve three of the iron pits at Torbrook. The ore was shipped on the DAR to ironworks at Londonderry in Colchester County.[1] Later in 1905, two additional mines opened in Torbrook by the Canadian Iron Company but they shipped their ore via Nictaux on the Halifax South Western to steamships at Port Wade using a 3 & 1/2 mile spur built in 1910 which provided easier grades than the Wilmot spur.[2] The volume and quality of of ore from the mine did not meet expectations however and the mines closed about 1913.[3]
Wilmot was the scene of one of the worst wrecks on the DAR. On January 14, 1894, a Windsor & Annapolis Railway snowplow extra derailed one mile east of Wilmot Station. The locomotive fell through the bridge at Gibbon's Brook killing both the engineer and fireman.[4]
Operations & Orders
Gallery
Oregon Northwestern boxcar for England's Furniture in Wilmot.
Wilmot to Kingston
References & Footnotes
- Alexander MacNab, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab Nov 1, 1873
- 1969 Memorandum of General Information
References
- ↑ R.G.E. Leckie, "Iron Ore Deposits of Torbrook", Journal of the Mining Society of Nova Scotia, Vol. I, 1892-1893 p.56-57
- ↑ Howells Frechette, Western Portion of Torbrook Iron Ore Deposits, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia Canada: Department of Mines Bulletin No. 7, Ottawa (1912), p. 11
- ↑ Ian Lawrence, Historic Annapolis Royal, Halifax: Nimbus Press (2002) p. 116
- ↑ Special Dispatch to the Halifax Herald. "Crashed Though A Bridge Fatal Accident on The W.& A. Railway" The Halifax Herald 1894 January 15
