Stories tagged "industry": 25
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The Guysborough Railway
The last half of the 19th century was Canada’s “railway age,” as rail lines crossed the continent and extended into virtually all regions of the country. By 1897, only two Nova Scotian counties—Guysborough and Victoria—lacked rail access.
To…
Bâtir au bord d’la Baie
La construction navale a joué un rôle économique important en Nouvelle-Écosse, notamment dans la vaste région du sud-ouest. Les chantiers de construction de navires dépendaient de l’industrie forestière tout en appuyant le commerce de l’exportation…
The Sutherland Steam Mill
"At last the big egg opened. ‘Pip! pip!’ said the young one, scrambling out; he was very big and ugly." – Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling
When I mention that I work at the Sutherland Steam Mill invariably, I get a blank look. Then I…
McDonald Brothers’ Sawmill, Sherbrooke Village
The first sawmill in the Sherbrooke area was erected around 1809 by James Fisher, who came from Truro in 1805. In 1814, another sawmill and a grist mill were set up by David Archibald III, also from Truro, at the site of present-day Sherbrooke.
The…
Amos Seaman (1788-1864)
Minudie is a fairly isolated area of Nova Scotia between the mouth of River Hebert and the Cumberland Basin. Originally occupied by the Mi’kmaq and later farmed by Acadians before the Deportation, the area became part of a grant made to Joseph…
Electric City
In 1892, Jean-Jacques Stehelin come to Nova Scotia from France to explore the possibilities of establishing a business here. His father, Émile, knew some of the faculty at Collège Sainte-Anne at Church Point, so this is where his investigations…
Winfred T. Ritcey (1878-1946)
In 1908, Winfred Theodore Ritcey started the Acadia Gas Engines Company on the banks of the LaHave River in Bridgewater. The company was known the world over for its two-cycle gas engines. With the company’s rapid expansion, Acadia Gas Engines began…
Balmoral Grist Mill’s Fake Wheel
From the very first day it opened in 1874, to the day it closed 80 years later, the Balmoral Grist Mill was powered by a pair of hydraulic turbines. That is irrefutable. When the mill was renovated and converted to a museum, someone, for reasons…
La création et le développement du Centre de la Mi-Carême
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En 1994, la région acadienne de Chéticamp se trouvait en crise par la fermeture de la pêche à la morue.Pendant des siècles, la morue avait été au centre de l’économie de la région et donnait du travail aux…
The Birth of the Mi-Carême Centre
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In 1994, the Acadian communities in the Chéticamp region of Cape Breton were in the midst of a crisis: the cod fishery had closed. For centuries, cod had been central to the region's economy, providing jobs for…