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Wallace Sandstone: "Building Stones for a Nation"
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View of home in Charlottetown. Constructed from Wallace sandstone in 1890
19 of 51 		The former Federal Building (Post Office)
20 of 51 		Sandstone Column on front of the 1935, Federal Building
21 of 51 		The former Zeller's Building on Barrington Street
22 of 51 		Sandstone carved design on Trueman House, a residence at Mount Allison University
23 of 51 		Picture of the different layers worked to extract stone from the quarry.
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A giant cable drum
25 of 51 		Quarry end of gravity rail road
26 of 51 		Quarry pond
27 of 51 		Canadian Physicist Donald Betts, in front of Wallace monument honouring Astronomer Simon Newcomb.
28 of 51 		Gravity railroad tracks.
29 of 51 		Quarry stone picture taken by Allison Brown
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Wallace Village War Memorial, the design incorporates Wallace sandstone.
31 of 51 		The Wallace Stone Company, Ltd. Stock Certificate issued by the Lyall Company.
32 of 51 		Cutting shop for the A.S. Dewar Quarry
33 of 51 		Stone being loaded on small rail car
34 of 51 		View of the over burden on the Wallace sandstone deposit
35 of 51 		Working face in the Wallace Quarry.
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