CANADIAN INDUSTRIES LIMITED

During the spring and summer of 1966, Canadian Industries Limited built a plant, opened in September, 1966, in Traveller's Rest.

The head office for this company is Montreal, but there is a regional office for the Maritimes at Halifax. The first plant manager was Graeme MacDougall who held this position until July, 1972, when Don Johnson from Ontario became manager.

This C.I.L. Agromart is a combination farm service centre and clinic to meet most of the farmers’ needs. It stocks farm input items such as fertilizers, pesticides, animal feeds and animal health products, seeds, farm paints, twine, polyethylene film, and other products to meet the needs of the local farmers. At the same time, it provides technical services, and will also supply spreading equipment for the application of lime and fertilizer. Bulk blending equipment is of prime importance at the Traveller's Rest Agromart as it provides a full range of C.I.L. fertilizers blended to meet the specific requirements of the farmer.

Due to the volume of business, it was found necessary in 1970 to expand this plant. Therefore, storage facilities were enlarged, a second mixing unit was added, a product showroom was provided as well as equip- ment to provide feed services and enlargement of the outside storage pad.

The new storage space for pesticides is divided into two sections. One is heated to provide proper storage conditions for certain pesticides. Equipment is installed to handle protein supplement such as fish and soy-‘ bean meal. By using this protein supplement and a pre-mix, a farmer can use his own grain to produce a complete feed.

The enlargement of the outside storage pad will permit the stacking of extra bag goods to meet sales surges during peak periods.

This plant employs three full time employees the year round but dur- ing the rush season, in April, May and June, an additional 12 to 15 helpers are needed. All employees hired are from the local area.

A TRUE STORY

On the Hall grounds, where once stood a house, an old well recently caved in. Two of our very young boys, Gordie MacKay and Donnie Maclnnis were the first to notice this hole in the ground. They rushed over to Donnie's father and begged him to come see what they had found. When Brad ignored them, Phyllis went with the boys. As they were leaving Brad, Gordie looked up and said quite seriously ”Well, you know, we can’t bring the hole over to you".

One of the early settlers John Walker, cleared about 20 acres of land on what is now Robert Marchbank's farm. Early one morning the pigs got into the garden. The family rushed out in the nude to save their garden. A Mr. Johnson was passing by, going home from courting, and seeing the couple he put his hands over his face and cried “Oh! Oh! Adam and Eve! Adam and Eve!" ~

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