Oxford Junction is a Canadian
rural
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community in
Cumberland County Cumberland County may refer to:
Australia
* Cumberland County, New South Wales
* the former name of Cumberland Land District, Tasmania, Australia
Canada
*Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
United Kingdom
* Cumberland, historic county
*Cumberl ...
,
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada, located on its east coast. It is one of the three Maritime Canada, Maritime provinces and Population of Canada by province and territory, most populous province in Atlan ...
, which lies approximately 5 kilometers to the southwest of the town of Oxford.
Oxford Junction received its name from its railway heritage. The
Intercolonial Railway of Canada built its
Halifax-
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ...
mainline through the area in the early 1870s. In the late 1880s, the ICR built a line nicknamed the "Short Line" along the
Northumberland Strait
The Northumberland Strait (French: ''détroit de Northumberland'') is a strait in the southern part of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in eastern Canada. The strait is formed by Prince Edward Island and the gulf's eastern, southern, and western sho ...
shore of Nova Scotia from Oxford Junction to
Stellarton
Stellarton is a town in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is adjacent and to the south of the larger town of New Glasgow. In pioneer times the area was called Coal Mines Station, and from 1833 until 1889, it was known as Albion Mines. The ...
but it was abandoned in 1986.
Many of the homes built in the early 1900s still stand to this day, and several are still in use.
References
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Communities in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
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