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A. R. Chambers1917
Malagash, Nova Scotia, Canada
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A. R. CHAMBERS - BIOGRAPHYA. Robert Chambers, well known to all his friends as "Bob" was born in New Glasgow, NS, in the year 1879.
After preliminary education in New Glasgow, Mr. Chambers entered the Faculty of Applied Science at McGill University and graduated as a Bachelor of Science (BSC) in Mining in 1904.
From 1904 until 1908 he was Mine Manager for the Wabana Iron Mines in Newfoundland, the vast ore deposits of which were discovered by his father. He was then designated Manager of Ore Mines and quarries for the Nova Scotia Steel Company, and served inthat capacity until 1917.
He then founded and became president of the Malagash Salt Company and devoted his life not only to the operation of the salt mine at Malagash but also by expanding the use of the product.
He displayed exceptional enterprise and tenacity. He was a pioneer in investigating and advocating the use of common salt to stabilize the surface of highways and to him is due much credit for the progress already made in the practice in Canada and elswhere.
For over 25 years he was a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy to which he contributed several valuable scientific papers. He was highly esteemed and greatly beloved on account of a particularly happy and genial disposition by a host of friends in the engineering cicles of Montreal and throughout the Dominion and United States.
He also took a great interest in local matters as instanced by his deep interest in the rehabilitation of the Pictou Coal Fields. Also, at the time of his death, he was President of the New Glasgow Board of Trade.
He passed away on Saturday, December 4, 1937,at the age of 58.
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George Walker MacKay1920
Malagash, Nova Scotia, Canada
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GEORGE WALKER MACKAY - BIOGRAPHYGeorge 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.
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James Roy Aitcheson1926
Malagash, Nova Scotia, Canada
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JAMES AITCHESONJames Aitcheson came to Malagash from New Annan in 1926. He was Mine Captain at the Salt Mine in Malagash, till it closed in 1959, then in Pugwash until he retired in 1970.
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W. L. Fillmore1922
Malagash, Nova Scotia, Canada
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W. L. FILLMOREW. L. Fillmore was the Salt Salesman for the Malagash Salt Mine from 1922 until 1938. His modes of transporation while on business for the company included automobile, train, plane and even horse.
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Sven Lundbohm1928
Malagash, Nova Scotia, Canada
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SVEN LUNDBOHMSven started at the Malagash Salt Mine in 1928 and worked in a variety of positions including; timekeeper, bookkeeper, shipper and salesman. He was also a local Justice of the Peace at one time.
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Bob Lombard1932
Malagash, Nova Scotia, Canada
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BOB LOMBARDBob Lombard was a graduate of Mount Allison University and the Nova Scotia Technical College, who joined the Malagash Salt Mine in 1932 as an electrical engineer. He remained with the company until 1938.
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James S. Gillespie1938
Malagash, Nova Scotia, Canada
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JAMES S. GILLESPIEJames Gillespie was a native of Moncton who became General Manager of the Malagash Salt Mine in 1938, until he retired in 1945.
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