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Community looking north from Cape Porcupine
1953
Auld's Cove, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada

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AULD'S COVE - Many Auld's Cove residents worked with the various companies involved in the construction of the Canso Causeway and some stayed on as company employees even after it was completed in 1955.
Once the Canso Causeway became a reality, a number of new businesses opened in Auld's Cove to provide services to travellers. Some residents continued to make a living by fishing.
By 1978, quarrying would begin again at Cape Porcupine and continues to the present. Rock is loaded onto bulk carriers or barges and shipped down as far as Bermuda. Jobs are created at the concrete plant as well.

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Map of the sites of industrial development
7 July 1959
Point Tupper Industries

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1959- July 7th, THE 4 COUNTY CITIZEN, The Voice and Views of the Four Strait Counties in it's first edition carried this and many more articles such as "Causeway Proves Key to Area's Development, 4 Counties Move From Curio Stage to Industrial Progress and Deed to Mill Site to be Turned Over at Meeting July 8."
Perseverance had paid off for the Four Counties Development Association when Nova Scotia Pulp Limited invested $40 million to build a new bleached sulphite pulp mill in Point Tupper,Richmond County. This was 6 years after the formation of the Four Counties Industrial Development Association under the dedicated and passionate leadership of Leonard O'Neil, Mayor of Mulgrave.

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Nova Scotia Pulp Limited
1965
Point Tupper, Richmond County, Nova Scotia, Canada

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PULP MILL COMES FIRST - 1959- 1962 - Nova Scotia Pulp Limited, owned by Stora Kopparberg of Sweden and initially Scott Paper Limited of Philadelphia, invested $40 million dollars when they built their sulphite pulp mill in the Strait of Canso. It had its official opening on January 2nd, 1962 and went into regular production at their Point Tupper mill on Feb1st. They employed 400 at the plant and another 800 full time jobs were to be found in Eastern Nova Scotia harvesting and trucking of wood.

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Bestwall Gypsum shipping gypsum from its Point Tupper dock
1970
Point Tupper Industries

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BESTWALL GYPSUM - Nova Scotia Bestwall Gypsum Division of Georgia Pacific Corporation started operations of a gypsum shipping pier at Point Tupper, Richmond County in 1962. Their shipping pier was constructed in the same area where train ferries had docked up until 1955. That year the Canso Causeway was completed. The Causeway had blocked the huge cakes of ice that came down from the Gulf of St. Lawrence every winter on the north side of it. This had created the very deep, year round ice free waterway on the Point Tupper side.
Their mining operation was twenty five miles away at River Denys, Inverness County.They moved to their Sugar Camp site in 1992 and to Melford, Inverness County in 2003.
They and Nova Scotia Pulp Ltd.(now Stora Enso Port Hawkesbury) have been providing employment in the Strait of Canso since 1962.

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Gulf Oil Refinery dock
1975
Point Tupper, Richmond County, Nova Scotia, Canada

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OIL REFINERY - 1969 - British American Oil invested $50 million building the Gulf Oil Refinery in Point Tupper, Richmond County on the Cape Breton Island side of the Strait of Canso. Another $13 million was invested by the Federal Government building the wharf for that facility. Both were completed in 1971. The refinery had the capacity to process 87,000 barrels a day which came primarily from the Persian Gulf.

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Port Malcolm Expropriation
20 March 1969
Port Malcolm, Richmond County, Nova Scotia, Canada

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LAND EXPROPRIATED - For communities like Port Malcom, expropriation was a sad reality as industry and government continued their expansion plans. In an article in the March 20th, 1969 paper, The Sun, published in Port Hawkesbury, there is an extensive article on the expropriation of land in Port Malcolm.
Since the land had previously been of little value, the fact that it was now in an area of major expansion of heavy industry, some of the residents wanted $200 an acre. ("Similar bush land in Port Hawkesbury is selling for $500 as a case in point.")They were offered $30.00 instead.

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Mulgrave Machine Works advertisement
27 March 1969
Mulgrave, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada

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HOME GROWN BUSINESS - 1969 - Mulgrave Machine Works was established in Mulgrave, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia by Tom Williams, Charles Simpson and Bob Reid who saw the need for a custom metal fabrication company. They provided services for their pulp contracting business and for companies like Acadia Fisheries, Nova Scotia Pulp Limited, Nova Scotia Power and the Heavy Water Plant as well as many other businesses.
This company has grown and prospered, adapting to the needs of new customers such as offshore oil rigs. Mulgrave Machine Works is still owned and operated in 2005 by Bob Reid's children.