Malagash Salt Miners' Museum
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The First Rock Salt Mine in Canada
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An extract from the interview with Kenny Wilson, who began working at the Malagash Salt Mine in 1950.

So what kind of markets were there back then for the salt?

Mostly Newfoundland, fish salt, hay salt in the summertime. We couldn't sell enough of the fines that we got, the fine that we got; they had to dump it over the bank actually.

The fine salt you mean, like the table salt?

It turned out like table salt because of the explosion of the dynamite - we didn't sell table salt, it was just industrial, you know hay salt and fish salt.

So the fish salt that was for salting the cod and so on?

That's right, Newfoundland.

So what was the hay salt exactly?

When you put hay in the barn, you ever hear tell of hay catching on fire by itself?

Yes.

If you put salt, a layer of hay and a little bit of salt on it, it prevents it from heating and it also helps the protein in the hay stay green.

 

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