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HISTORICALLY SPEAKING WITH ED COLEMAN: Glimpses of the old Halifax to Windsor road

Well before the first passenger railway ran from Halifax to Windsor in 1857, the town was the grazing ground of the city’s mucky-mucks, the politicians, lawyers, magistrates, doctors, and merchants that made everything work.

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While this rail line made Windsor more accessible to the summering upper class, it really had started a generation or two before, when the likes of Nova Scotia’s governor John Parr (1725-1791) sought out Windsor’s hospitable climate to escape the strains of office.

Windsor was also a favoured place as the jumping-off point to reach the agricultural resources of the Annapolis Valley. If you delve deeply enough into the history of the railway, you’ll find that accessing the Valley’s farm riches was a key factor in its construction.

A major port, Windsor with its two rivers, the Avon and St. Croix, was always a........

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