When Heather Davidson wrote a short history of Kentville for the Board of Trade in 1979, she asked why the town prospered after the railway arrived in the Annapolis Valley. “Why Kentville? Why here?” Davidson asked in the eight-page booklet on the town...
Ed Coleman is a regular columnist for the Valley Journal Advertiser. - File PhotoKENTVILLE, N.S. — When Heather Davidson wrote a short history of Kentville for the Board of Trade in 1979, she asked why the town prospered after the railway arrived in the Annapolis Valley.
At the time tracks were laid, compared to Kentville and Wolfville, Windsor was already an advanced mercantile and industrial centre with a substantial residential area. Kentville looked to Windsor, for example, on how to set up a water system for the fledgling town. For a short period, Wolfville was the railway’s headquarters, but only because a temporary office for the supervisor was set up there.
A Heritage Nova Scotia paper on Kentville’s railway connections suggests that “for the same reason the stage companies had chosen the town 40 years earlier, the Windsor and Annapolis Railway picked it for their headquarters.” As for Kentville prospering, records show that when the various rail lines consolidated as the Dominion Atlantic Railway, 320 of its 800 employees eventually worked out of Kentville.
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