The Nova Scotia Railway is a historic Canadian railway . It was composed of two lines, one connecting Richmond (immediately north of Halifax ) with Windsor , the other connecting Richmond with Pictou Landing via Truro .
13-486: The railway was incorporated March 31, 1853 and received a charter to build railway lines from Halifax to Pictou by way of Truro, as well as from Halifax to Victoria Beach, Nova Scotia on the Annapolis Basin opposite Digby by way of Windsor. The company also received a charter to build from Truro to the border with New Brunswick . The railway was a key project of the visionary Nova Scotian leader Joseph Howe who felt
26-761: A government built railway led by Nova Scotia was necessary after the failure of the Intercolonial Railway talks and several fruitless private proposals. The railway line to Windsor (known as the Windsor Branch) was opened in June 1858 and the line to Truro (known as the Eastern Line) was opened in December 1858. No further work was undertaken on the line to Victoria Beach beyond Windsor but the Eastern Line to Pictou Landing
39-485: A number of reasons had been advanced for making two counties out of Annapolis County. Two petitions were presented to the House of Assembly in that year requesting that the county be divided. However, it was not until 1837 that Annapolis County was divided into two distinct and separate counties - Annapolis and Digby . As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Annapolis County had
52-423: A population of 18,834 living in 8,608 of its 10,268 total private dwellings, a change of 3.2% from its 2016 population of 18,252 . With a land area of 3,172.36 km (1,224.86 sq mi), it had a population density of 5.9/km (15.4/sq mi) in 2021. Population trend Mother tongue language (2011) Ethnic Groups (2006) Highways and numbered routes that run through
65-592: A population of 21,252 living in 9,855 of its 11,612 total private dwellings, a change of 3.2% from its 2016 population of 20,591 . With a land area of 3,183.23 km (1,229.05 sq mi), it had a population density of 6.7/km (17.3/sq mi) in 2021. Forming the majority of the Annapolis County census division, the Municipality of the County of Annapolis, including its Subdivisions A, B, C, and D, had
78-622: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Annapolis County, Nova Scotia Annapolis County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia located in the western part of the province located on the Bay of Fundy . The county seat is Annapolis Royal . Established August 17, 1759, by Order in Council, Annapolis County took its name from the town of Annapolis Royal which had been named in honour of Anne, Queen of Great Britain . The town
91-666: The Annapolis Basin . In 1849, it was the western terminus of Nova Scotia pony express , and a federal plaque in the community commemorates it. The heritage lighthouse at Battery Point is an eight metre tall wooden structure with octagonal iron lantern and was built in 1901. The area was labelled as Andromeda on a 1609 map by Marc Lescarbot , but was renamed for Queen Victoria following her silver jubilee in 1862. 44°40′38.79″N 65°45′13.9″W / 44.6774417°N 65.753861°W / 44.6774417; -65.753861 ( Victoria Beach, Nova Scotia ) This Annapolis County, Nova Scotia location article
104-652: The DAR was sold by CPR in 1994, the Windsor Branch came under the control of the shortline Windsor and Hantsport Railway . The Government of Canada dissolved the NSR in 1872 when it became part of the Intercolonial Railway . The ICR in turn was controlled by Canadian Government Railways from 1915 to 1918 and was merged into the Canadian National Railways or CNR in 1918. The Halifax to Truro line remains part of CN, however
117-539: The canal were too low for the steamers on the canal). One noteworthy early feature of operations on the Nova Scotia Railway was the first known case of intermodal operations involving the "piggyback" transport of road vehicles on railway cars. Farmers in the Windsor area were able to drive their teams of horses and loaded wagons onto railway cars and be transported into Halifax to sell their loads, returning to Windsor
130-532: The rest of the Eastern Line from Truro to Pictou was sold by CN in 1993 to the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway as part of CN's sale of the entire Truro to Sydney line. Victoria Beach, Nova Scotia Victoria Beach is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia , in Annapolis County . It is on the shore of Digby Gut , a narrow channel connecting the Bay of Fundy with
143-656: The same day. On July 1, 1867, ownership of the NSR was passed from the Government of Nova Scotia to the Government of Canada . The Windsor Branch was leased to the Windsor and Annapolis Railway in 1871. The W&A became part of the Dominion Atlantic Railway or DAR in 1894 and the DAR itself was purchased by the Canadian Pacific Railway or CPR in 1912, although it was operated as a separate entity. When
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#1732843953746156-481: Was completed by June 1867, under the supervision of Sir Sandford Fleming . The construction of the Nova Scotia Railway by the colonial government was partly encouraged by the construction failures and ongoing delays in building the Shubenacadie Canal The success of the railway came at the expense of the canal which opened in 1861, but soon fell into disrepair from lack of use (and because the rail bridges over
169-472: Was the successor to the French settlement of Port Royal , the chief Acadian settlement in the area. The Acadians had been forcibly removed by British government officials in the 1755 Grand Dérangement . In 1817 the population of the county was 9,817, and that had grown to 14,661 by 1827. At that time, the county was divided into six townships : Annapolis, Granville, Wilmot, Clements, Digby and Clare. By 1833,
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