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Canning Wye and Spur
Canning Wye and Spur
- Subdivision Kingsport, Mile 9.8
Wye and 3,300 foot long spur in Canning leading to the Canning Wharf
Construction of a spur to the Canning Wharf was announced in June 1910.[1] This trackwork was designed in the spring of 1911 and construction started that year. However completion was slowed by the construction of the North Mountain Line to Weston and the beginning of the First World War. The wye and spur were completed in 1915.[2] The Canning wharf was seeing little ship traffic by this period and a letter in 1916 indicated that not a single vessel had called at the wharf in that year.[3] The spur along the riverbank required a 1000 trestle to reach the wharf which provided difficult to stabilize and was subsequently abandoned. However, oral history in Canning indicates that the stub of the spur was used for the private railway car of Frederick William Borden, federal defence minister in the First World War.[4]
- South leg: approx Mile 9.8
- North leg: approx Mile 10.4, a third of a mile from the Canning Station
- Active circa 1914-1920
- Included a 1000 foot trestle along the north side of the Habitant Rivert connecting to the Canning Wharf
- Wharf spur saw little use so the trestle was abandoned and salvaged by the Blenkhorn Axe Factory
Gallery
Map of Canning Wye and Spur as designed April 28, 1911.
Postcard of Canning with the trestle of the Canning Wye and Spur postmarked Sept. 12, 1911.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ The Railway and Marine World April 1910, "DAR News Including Government Actions"
- ↑ 17 Sept. 1915, Letter about completion, F.L. Wanklyn, CPR, Library Archives and Canada RG43 A-1-2 Vol. 278, File 3157.
- ↑ 15 March 1916, letter about line not in service, Library Archives and Canada RG43 A-1-2 Vol. 278, File 3157.
- ↑ Personal Communication, Community Historian Leon Barron, June 1993
Dan Conlin Field notes CVR Trip, April 20, 2008
