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Brunton and Adams International Brownstone Quarry records show job classifications such as Mucker, Drill Runner, Quarryman,Blacksmith and Nipper.
Men worked 10 hour days, six and sometimes seven days a week.
In 1889 labour rates start at one dollar a day. The quarry paid two dollars a day for use of donkeys.

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Brunton and Adams Account
June, 1887
Wallace River, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Brunton and Adams Account Book
1887
Wallace River, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Cutting shop for the A.S. Dewar Quarry
1934
Wallace River, Nova Scotia, Canada

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The Dewar Quarry cutting shed at Wallace River followed by pictures of its most regarded product the 1935 Federal Building in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

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Federal Building (former Post Office), was built from Wallace sandstone.
15 June 2004
Amherst, Nova Scotia

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Sandstone column being polished for the Amherst, Nova Scotia Federal Building.
1935
Wallace River, Nova Scotia, Canada

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A column section for the Amherst, Nova Scotia, Federal Building.

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Columns on the front of the Amherst, N.S. Federal Building.
1935
Amherst, Nova Scotia