Frank Rand Maple Leaf Fruit Warehouse

Frank Rand/Maple Leaf Fruit Warehouse Canning

Mile 10.8 on the Kingsport Subdivision at Canning

• Served by east facing spur, south of the mainline, shared with the vinegar plant, coal shed and freight dock
• Unusual configuration: one story, low pitched roof with skylights
• 8,500 barrel capacity
• Wooden construction with metal plate siding

History

• Built about 1900 by British Apple Broker Frank Rand of London, England
• By 1927, it had become part of the Maple Leaf Fruit Co-op
• Gone by the 1950s

Gallery

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  The Frank Rand & Co./Maple Leaf Fruit Company Apple Warehouse, looking east in Canning, circa 1900.

References and Footnotes

• Dominion Atlantic Railway, DAR Chart of Apple and Produce Warehouses, February 23, 1927