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Wallace Sandstone: "Building Stones for a Nation"
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Curator, David Dewar, demonstrating stone cutting for a Tatamagouche Elementary School Class.
1 of 24 		Stone cutting tools demonstration.
2 of 24 		Stone cutting demonstration
3 of 24 		Quarry workers posing in front of Quarry office. Names around picture border.
4 of 24 		Mr. Brunton
5 of 24 		Drilling holes for explosives
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Gordon Dewar, Stone Cutter
7 of 24 		Mr. Lyle, quarry owner standing, in front of the guarry office about 1935.
8 of 24 		Clarence Murphy
9 of 24 		Twenty ton block of stone
10 of 24 		Derricks were used in quarries to help lift, move and load, the many tons of rock.
11 of 24 		Diamond saw cutting sandstone
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Moving blocks of sandstone around in the quarry.
13 of 24 		Picture of the different layers worked to extract stone from the quarry.
14 of 24 		A giant cable drum
15 of 24 		Quarry end of gravity rail road
16 of 24 		Canadian Physicist Donald Betts, in front of Wallace monument honouring Astronomer Simon Newcomb.
17 of 24 		Stan Flynn and son Tom
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