7:30 pm (doors open at 7:00)
Industrial Heritage Nova Scotia is holding their monthly meeting at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic on Monday, April 1st. As always, they are having a guest speaker, whose talk is open to all interested members of the public.
What grain elevators are to the prairies, apple warehouse are to Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley. For over 50 years Nova Scotia enjoyed a massive apple export industry. Apple warehouses were the place where the crop was organized and packed for its thousand mile journeys. At one time Nova Scotia had over 150 apple warehouses in five counties, employing thousands of men and women sorting and packing apples through the dark winter months. The apple industry collapsed after the Second World War, but the warehouses lived on for many decades in other roles. However today, neglect and development are now rapidly thinning their numbers. Join transportation historian Dan Conlin from the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 for an illustrated talk on the rise and fall of the unique structures which once connected the province's apple orchards to the world.
The talk is free and the doors will open at 7:00.
For additional information:
Richard MacMichael
902-424-8897
macmicrs@gov.ns.ca