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Drivers, trucks and horses in front of the Digby Dairy Plant. Oakley Turnbull, second from the right, was employed here for many years.

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Harvesting Rockweed downtown
1900
Digby, Nova Scotia

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Rockweed was harvesting for the purpose of fertilizing gardens. This method is no longer used extensively.

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Ship Building
1900
Digby & Digby County, Nova Scotia

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Some of the Loyalists were shipbuilders and they carried on their craft when they re-located to Nova Scotia. In the mid-nineteenth century (1850's) the town of Digby had three shipyards. Eventually that grew to be six shipyards along the main street. By 1900 the era of the tall ship had passed but Digby County shipyards continued on a smaller scale.

In 1918 the District of Clare had twelve to fourteen shipyards still operating. Today there are no more than a handful in the whole county.

At one time just about every inlet and cove, along the shore, had a shipbuilder.

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Ship being towed for a launching
1900
Digby, Nova Scotia

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The Olivers were shipbuilders in Digby. The shipyard was to the right of the Oliver house, which was on the corner of Warwick Street and Montague Row.

The oxen are towing this ship to be launched!

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Tupper Warne Mill
1920
Digby, Nova Scotia

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Tupper Warne's mill was located at the south end of Digby.

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Tupper Warne Mill
1920
Digby, Nova Scotia

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Hubert Tupper Warne (1868-1952), a forth-generation descendant of Loyalist Samuel Warne of Hillgrove, Digby County, owned and operated a mill at the south end of Digby. Warne's business included lumbering and milling--producing pulpwood and pit props--building Defiance Trucks, and retail food distribution.

The plant employed hundreds of area workers until the 1940's.

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Lewis Mill
1980
Weymouth, Digby County, Nova Scotia

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In the 1980's Lewis Lumber one of the Province's largest saw mills.

This picture shows logs gathered in the mill pond of Lewis Lumber Co. Ltd. at Weymouth, Digby County. Seen at the top of the photo is the new, completely modern and totally electric mill of the Lewis Lumber Company, Digby county's largest producer of sawn lumber.

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Lewis Mill
1980
Weymouth, Digby County, Nova Scotia