Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Hantsport Railway Station
Hantsport, West Hants, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- railway station
- Year built
- 1944
- Decade built
- 1940-1949
- Notice of registration date
- 10 July 1995
- Civic address
- 2 Water Street
- Community
- Hantsport
- County
- West Hants
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.99749, -64.13777
- File number
- Prov_file_195
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Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Lunenburg Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Lunenburg Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Kings, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Halifax, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it is one of the very few heritage stations left in the Province still used as a railway station and because it is a visible symbol of Nova Scotian railway history.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Hantsport Railway Station as a traditional class 4 station include:
- brick construction;
- flattened hip roof with brackets supported by extended eaves;
- half-timbered gable over the station agent's window;
- tapered chimney stack;
- prominent location within the industrial district of the town of Hantsport and along a still active rail line.
Nearby in the register
- Saint John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Christ Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Clifton Museum Park (Haliburton House)museumunder 1 mi
- Thornton Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.