GEORGE WALKER MACKAY

George Walker MacKay was born September 18, 1880. His father George Forrest MacKay was the founder (in New Glasgow) of the steel industry of Canada. He had been an original partner in the founding of Canada's first Salt Mine and his association dated from 1917, a span of 55 years.

It can be said of the Malagash ventures that A. R. Chambers had the ideas, the courage and the know how to begin the industry and George W. MacKay had the money. He had the money and was willing to gamble in a Nova Scotia industry. Few Nova Scotians have been so inclined preferring always to invest in areas remote from Eastern Canada. And a gamble it remained all its life; 41 years, but it never failed.

George W. MacKay said to John MacQuarrie in March, 1972, "We never made any money until we got into the highway salt business." He died April 10, 1972, at the age of 92.

(Taken from the book 'Malagash Salt', first published in 1975)