Malagash Salt Miners' Museum
Malagash, Nova Scotia

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The First Rock Salt Mine in Canada

 

 

ROOM AND BOARD - 70c PER DAY

Room and board were provided about 1923.

The cookhouse was the old Peter Murray residence. Mrs. Elizabeth (Langille) Purdy (Pye) was the first to run the business. She provided three a meals a day plus bed for 70c per man and this price maintained for years.

Mrs. William Langille ran the cookhouse 1926-28.

Norman MacBauurie took over in 1928 and in 1929 Mrs. Wallace Carty contracted the business from Mr. MacBurrie and so continued for about six years.

An additional bunk house, which eventually became the first school at the Mine (1937), was built in 1928, when the evaporator plant was being constructed. The building was moved after its stint as a school and used as a change (dry) house, until the Mine closed.

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

 

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