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33-437: WHRC may refer to: Windsor and Hantsport Railway (reporting mark WHRC) WHRC-LP , a low-power radio station (97.3 FM) licensed to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, United States WHRC, the student radio program of Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College , founded in 1923 Women's Human Rights Campaign , a British organisation that opposes transgender rights Topics referred to by

66-615: A 99-year lease expired. This line is known as the Windsor Branch and had been built by the Nova Scotia Railway in 1858, with ownership being transferred from the Government of Nova Scotia to the Government of Canada in 1867. The NSR was dissolved in 1872 when its assets were merged into the newly formed Intercolonial Railway (ICR). The ICR's assets were assumed by Canadian Government Railways (CGR) in 1912. The Windsor Branch

99-719: A church and dykes. The British built Fort Vieux Logis in the area during Father Le Loutre's War , which was attacked by the Acadians and Mi'kmaq in the Siege of Grand-Pré . The siege lasted for a week and the 300 natives took prisoners who remained in captivity for almost two years. Eventually the Mi'kmaq retreated. During the French and Indian War (the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War ),

132-408: A rectilinear street grid was laid between Grand-Pré and Horton Landing to the east, but the local farming population preferred to settle along the upland ridge in a spread out fashion, much like the previous residents of the area, the Acadians, had done. Several schools and congregations were formed at Grand-Pré including a meeting house converted into a church in the early 19th century, today known as

165-478: A result of loss of freight revenue, WHRC operated its last interchange train from Windsor to Windsor Junction on November 2, 2010. The last gypsum trains ran in the fall of 2011 after the gypsum quarries and Hantsport loader shut down and railway operations ceased by November 15, 2011. In February 2013 the Windsor to Windsor Junction section of track returned to control of its owner Canadian National Railway (CN) after

198-513: A road from Cobequid to Tatamagouche for the supply of Fort Beauséjour , Louisbourg , and settlements on Île St. Jean ( Prince Edward Island ). Other exports went by sea from Minas Basin to Isthmus of Chignecto or to the mouth of the Saint John River , carried in Acadian vessels by Acadian middlemen. The Acadians from Grand-Pré also offered their labour to those at Isthmus of Chignecto to build

231-400: Is 44.5, compared to 41.8 for the province. 84.8% of the population is older than 15 years, which is in the provincial average. With regard to language, 96.6% of the inhabitants are English-speaking, 1.4% are francophone and 2.0% are allophones . The francophone population is anglicized as 99.3% of the population speak English at home. With respect to knowledge of official languages, 7.2% of

264-412: Is also a fine vantage point for watching the ebb and flow of the world's highest tides. Grand-Pré has no official status; there are only specific data for subdivision D of Kings County, which includes the area between Hantsport and Wolfville , where Grand-Pré and a few other villages exist. In this area, there were 5499 inhabitants in 2006, compared to 5167 in 2001, an increase of 6.4%. The average age

297-510: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Windsor and Hantsport Railway The mainline (and related spurs) were formerly owned by Canadian Pacific Railway subsidiary Dominion Atlantic Railway from 1894 to 1994 before being sold to shortline holding company Iron Road Railways . WHRC began operations on Saturday, August 27, 1994, making it Nova Scotia's second shortline railway after Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway , which

330-535: Is hauled by WHRC unit trains to the port at Hantsport for export by ship to the United States. There are several manufacturing and agricultural-related traffic sources in an industrial park in New Minas, west of Hantsport. A summer excursion passenger service between Windsor and Grand Pre was operated in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Hantsport has one of the fastest ship loaders in the world due to its location on

363-467: Is the oldest existing Presbyterian church in Nova Scotia. One of Nova Scotia's best known wineries, Domaine de Grand-Pré, is located in the community. Grand-Pré is also Canada's first designated Historic Rural District. The Just Us! coffee company headquarters is located in the village and is something of a tourist attraction. Evangeline Beach is a famous stopover for thousands of migrating shore birds and

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396-596: The Covenanter Church . Over time, merchants and shop owners congregated at nearby Wolfville to the west, leaving Grand-Pré to continue as a farming community. One of the Planter descendants was Sir Robert Borden , the eighth Prime Minister of Canada , who was born in Grand-Pré in 1854. Grand-Pré continued as a rich and productive but small farming community. The Windsor and Annapolis Railway arrived in 1869, at first serving

429-527: The Acadians were expelled from Grand-Pré during the Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755) . There were various British soldiers who kept a journal of the deportation from Grand-Pré such as Lt. Col. John Winslow and Jeremiah Bancroft . The site of Grand-Pré during the expulsion was later immortalized by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with his epic poem Evangeline . Acadians from Grand Pré were dispersed in many locations and some eventually returned to other parts of

462-521: The Avon River, which was affected by the incredible tidal range of the Bay of Fundy . The fluctuating water level meant that bulk carriers could not stay at the dock longer than 3–4 hours for fear of touching bottom. The Hantsport ship loader could move 10,000 tons of gypsum per hour. In January 2002 WHRC purchased used continuous welded rail from CN for replacing 5 mi (8.0 km) of jointed rail between Falmouth and Hantsport. WHRC embargoed

495-727: The Canadian Maritimes such as Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and New Brunswick. Many Acadians expelled from the Grand-Pré area eventually settled in the New England States and travelling overland to South Louisiana in the United States after being dropped on the Atlantic coast. In Louisiana, the term Cajun evolved from the name Acadian. After the deportation of the Acadians, the vacant lands were resettled by New England Planters in 1760 and renamed Horton Township. A large town plot with

528-610: The French retreated. During Father Le Loutre's War , the Acadians at Grand-Pré played a significant role in supporting the Acadian Exodus out of mainland Nova Scotia, which started in 1749. Grand-Pré willingly responded to the call from Le Loutre for basic food stuffs. The bread basket of the region, they raised wheat and other grains, produced flour in no fewer than eleven mills, and sustained herds of several thousand head of cattle, sheep and hogs. Regular cattle droves made their way over

561-618: The community with a small rural station. Livestock and marsh hay became major exports, joined in the late 19th century by the Annapolis Valley's major apple exporting industry. Four large apple warehouses were built around the station to pack and ship apples. In the 1920s when the Dominion Atlantic Railway developed the Grand-Pré Memorial Park to attract tourists. While agriculture remained Grand-Pré's major industry,

594-649: The lease expired in February 2013, control of the Windsor Branch's track returned to CN. CN advertised the line for disposal in April 2013. Grand Pre, Nova Scotia Grand-Pré ( French: [ɡʁɑ̃pʁe] ) is a Canadian rural community in Kings County , Nova Scotia . Its French name translates to "Great/Large Meadow" and the community lies at the eastern edge of the Annapolis Valley several kilometres east of

627-439: The longest portion of its network, the line between Windsor and Windsor Junction, where it interchanges with Canadian National Railway on that company's Halifax - Montreal mainline. The majority of WHRC traffic originated at the two gypsum quarries on the spur running east of Windsor. These quarries are owned and operated by Fundy Gypsum Company, a subsidiary of United States Gypsum Corporation . The gypsum from these quarries

660-562: The park made the community a tourism destination as well as a memorial to the Acadian people. The Park eventually became a National Historic Site and in 1957 was purchased by the Canadian Park Service . Today, Grand-Pré is the home the Grand-Pré National Historic Site which is now a national park administered by Parks Canada to commemorate the Acadian people and their deportation. The Covenanter Church at Grand-Pré

693-457: The property. The 2008-2009 economic downturn reduced residential construction activity in the United States, which was the primary market for gypsum exported from Hantsport. The reduced demand forced Fundy Gypsum Co. to idle its two Windsor area quarries for much of 2010. Parent company USG announced the permanent closure of Fundy Gypsum along with the Hantsport loading facility in late 2011. As

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726-527: The rail line from Hantsport west to the end of track (west of the New Minas industrial park) in 2007 as a result of deferred maintenance leading to excessive costs for repairing the bridge over the Gaspereau River . WHRC worked with its customers in the New Minas industrial park (a Frito Lay potato chip plant and a Co-Op Atlantic feed mill) to create a rail-truck re-load facility in the WHRC's Windsor yard. Although

759-453: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title WHRC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WHRC&oldid=1058271976 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

792-563: The town of Wolfville on a peninsula jutting into the Minas Basin surrounded by extensive dyked farm fields, framed by the Gaspereau and Cornwallis Rivers . The community was made famous by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's poem Evangeline and is today home to the Grand-Pré National Historic Site . On June 30, 2012, the Landscape of Grand-Pré was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Grand-Pré

825-476: The track and other infrastructure is still intact, crossings have been paved over and vegetation has been uncontrolled. No freight train has operated west of Hantsport since the line was embargoed, however, WHRC has not applied to Nova Scotia's railway regulator (the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board ) to formally abandon the line; a formal abandonment would permit WHRC to scrap the infrastructure and sell

858-558: The vast salt marshes; effectively reclaiming several thousand acres of productive farm land. The farms and the population grew quickly, making Grand-Pré the principal settlement in Acadia. Settlements spread from Grand-Pré around the Minas Basin, collectively becoming known as Les Mines or Minas after the copper deposits surveyed by de Mons at the entrance to the Basin. By the mid-1680s the population

891-501: The village. They were eventually overwhelmed and Church burned the village and the fields. During King George's War , a French force led by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay defeated a larger British force in a night raid at the Battle of Grand-Pré . This battle was the most significant and bloodiest victory for the French in Acadia. The village, however, remained in British control once

924-528: Was built as the Windsor and Annapolis Railway between 1867 and 1872, which became the Dominion Atlantic Railway in 1894. The section east of Windsor to the gypsum quarries at Wentworth Creek and Mantua was built as the Midland Railway and opened in 1901. This was CPR/DAR's Truro Subdivision until the line east of the gypsum quarry at Mantua to Truro was abandoned in 1983. The WHRC had no traffic sources on

957-400: Was formed one year earlier. The WHRC route between Windsor Junction and New Minas is part of CPR's (and DAR's) former Halifax Subdivision. The section from Windsor to Windsor Junction was built as the Windsor Branch of the Nova Scotia Railway , opening in 1858, and is currently owned by Canadian National Railway (CN). The WHRC route west of Windsor to Hantsport and ending at New Minas ,

990-571: Was founded in about 1680 by Pierre Melanson and Pierre Terriot. Pierre Melanson, an Acadian settler who traveled east from Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons 's original settlement at Port Royal and its habitation . Pierre, an Acadian of French Huguenot and English extraction, had arrived in Port Royal with Sir Thomas Temple in the 1650s when Acadia was under English control. Pierre Terriot was the son of Jehan born in Port Royale around 1654. Pierre Melanson

1023-526: Was leased by CGR in 1914 for 99 years to the Canadian Pacific Railway 's (CPR) subsidiary Dominion Atlantic Railway (DAR). A Privy Council order dated July 22, 1993 authorized the sale of CGR to the then- Crown corporation Canadian National Railway (CN) for one Canadian dollar. The sale of the DAR's assets in 1994 to the WHRC saw the lease of the Windsor Branch transferred to the new company. After

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1056-438: Was responsible for founding the parish of Saint-Charles des Mines while his friend, Pierre Terriot founded the parish of Saint-Joseph de la rivière aux Canards. The fertility of the soils and wealth of other resources in the area had been known to the French since the early part of the century when Samuel de Champlain , de Mont's cartographer, had surveyed the region. The settlers quickly employed their dyke building technology to

1089-511: Was sufficient to support a church and the parish of Saint-Charles des Mines was formed. During Queen Anne's War , New Englander Ranger Benjamin Church , burned the village and broke some of the dykes in the Raid on Grand Pré . In this raid, Church and his rangers got stuck on the mud flats of Baie Francais (Bay of Fundy), which gave the Mi'kmaq and Acadians time to position themselves to fiercely defend

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