Eastern Shore, Halifax County

Sheet Harbour is one of the larger communities along the Eastern Shore, located 110 kilometres east of Dartmouth on Highway 7. The community has a long industrial heritage resulting from its geographic attributes that include a deep-water harbour into which two large rivers (East and West) flow. These rivers have both been the site of several large milling operations, including one of the earliest sulphite pulp and paper mills in Canada. In 1922 the Rhodes and Curry sawmill on the West River, along with their timber land of approximately 60,000 acres, was purchased by Wheeler Brothers, who owned the American Pulp and Wrapping Paper Company of Albany, New York. Pictured here is that pulp mill's wharf for pulp export, and log landing area beyond it. (The logs were at that time boomed from the East River.) The mill itself was located on the other side of the river and featured a wooden trestle that moved the debarked logs from the wharf to the mill.

Date: [ca. 1924]

Reference:  Eastern Shore Archives D0095P011

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