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E&N Port Subdivision
Well now – this is a bit of a pickled as I can’t remember if this is the E&N railway Port Subdivision crossing of Lockport Creek or Pipeline Creek. Either way, the train doesn’t run here anymore, or anywhere … Continue reading
Posted in British Columbia, E&N, Highway 4, The train don’t run here anymore, Vancouver Island, Vanishing Vancouver Island
Tagged E&N, history, rail, rail road, rail way
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E&N Port Subdivision
Well now – this is a bit of a pickled as I can’t remember if this is the E&N railway Port Subdivision crossing of Lockport Creek or Pipeline Creek. Either way, the train doesn’t run here anymore, or anywhere … Continue reading
Posted in British Columbia, E&N, Highway 4, The train don’t run here anymore, Vancouver Island, Vanishing Vancouver Island
Tagged E&N, history, rail, rail road, rail way
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Nova Scotia Church – Lawrencetown
Another deconsecrated and empty church – this one in Lawrencetown in the Annapolis Valley. St. Andrew’s Anglican Church is a registered Municipal Heritage Property in the Municipality of Annapolis County, officially registered, August 18th, 1992.
Posted in abandoned, buildings, church, Highway 1 - Nova Scotia
Tagged Atlantic Canada, buildings, Canada, church, history, Nova Scotia
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Nova Scotia Textiles Limited – a window into the past
Nova Scotia Textiles Limited, where Windsor Wear was woven… Pretty much all of the windows have been smashed or removed at the old Nova Scotia Textiles Limited factory in Windsor. There are great plans to renovate the building, but I … Continue reading
Horton Bluff Lighthouse
Constructed in 1961, the Horton Bluff Lighthouse has an 8.7-meter-high tower rising from the west corner of the flat-roofed building sited sixty-five meters above Avon River. The light served as the front light of a pair of range lights. The … Continue reading
Posted in A bit of Nova Scotia, buildings, Hants County, history, lighthouse, Minas Basin, Nova Scotia
Tagged Hants County, history, lighthouse, Minas Basin, Nova Scotia
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The train don’t run here anymore
The Windsor and Hantsport Railway railway bridge over Blue Beach Road
Annapolis Royal
Looking across the Annapolis River toward Granville Ferry
Posted in Annapolis County, buildings, history, nature, Nova Scotia, ocean, river, winter
Tagged Annapolis Basin, Annapolis River, history, ocean, pilings
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Douglas Dakota Mk IV, C-47B-30-DK Skytrain
Snow and clouds framing the Douglas Dakota Mk IV, C-47B-30-DK Skytrain at the Greenwood Military Aviation Museum.
Posted in A bit of Nova Scotia, history, museum, RCAF, winter
Tagged air plane, CFB Greenwood, clouds, Greenwood Military Aviation Museum, history, museum, RCAF, snow
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