Loading Gypsum at Hantsport, N. S .
S. A. WILLIS
For over 150 years gypsum from Nova Scotia has been shipped via water to the United States east coast. The history of the movement has been one of continual improvements in quarrying, loading, and shipping. At the start, man-size rock quarried by hand auger and black powder was loaded into horse-drawn carts, hauled to the waterfront, and dumped into 100-ton sailing schooners.
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Canadian, Canadian Gypsum Company, Canadian Pacific Railway, Hantsport, high water, Nova Scotia, Gypsum, Load, Loading, mining, Rock, Rocks, Systems, Water, Waters
