Tag: bricks

on March 25, 2020

Windsor Wear

A bit of Nova Scotia . buildings . history . Nova Scotia Article

The remains of the Nova Scotia Textiles Limited building where the Windsor Wear weaving and fabrication operations were located.

on December 25, 2018

Bridgetown Regional High School

Birds . buildings . history . Nova Scotia Article

Endangered Chimney Swifts roosting in the chimney of the former Bridgetown Regional High School are delaying demolition of the heating plant. The school operated from 1951 to 2017.

on January 2, 2017

Nanoose – the bricks on the beach

history . Nanoose . ocean Article

I like to know what the history of things that I’m looking at so I did some research into the Clayburn, and Kilgard bricks that are scattered on the shore of Nanoose Bay at the site where the Red Gap sawmill once stood. In 1905 John Charles MacClure founded the Vancouver Fireclay Company Ltd. and