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Digby Station Restaurant
The Digby Station restaurant occupied a building on the Digby Station platform, between the station and the Digby Enginehouse.[1] It was operated for many years by a Mrs. Vye who was famous for her cooking and pastries, inspiring a line of local verse:
Lunches tempting served by the Misses Vye
And featured oft by luscious custard pie[2]
The new station built in 1920 included a larger restaurant with both a lunch room, with a long S-shaped lunch counter, and a private dining room. A kitchen in the basement provided meals with a dumb waiter elevator.[3] The restaurant manager was Blanche Morgan.[4] In December 1938, it was announced that the Digby station restaurant would close as train passenger were now being served onboard refreshments from dining cars.[5]
Gallery
Postcard looking north with the WCR station in foreground, the Digby Station Restaurant and the Digby Enginehouse in background, circa 1895.
Taken from the top of the enginehouse and looking south to the WCR station in background, with the Digby Station Restaurant in foreground and box car No. 1281, circa 1910.
References
- ↑ Ralph Beaumount, Heckman's Canadian Pacific: A Photographic Journey (2010) p. 288
- ↑ W. W. Clarke, Clarke's History of the Earliest Railways in Nova Scotia (c. 1925) p. 34
- ↑ Harry Jost and Barry Moody, "Canadian Pacific Railway Station Digby, Nova Scotia", Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada Railway Station Report, RSR-096 (1991) Canadian Pacific Historical Association Documents Library.
- ↑ George Bishop, "Railway Notes", The Advertiser, April 22, 1937
- ↑ George Bishop, "Railway Notes", The Advertiser, Dec. 29, 1938
