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Port Hawkesbury (2001 population 3,701) is a town located on the southwestern end of Cape Breton Island, on the north shore of the Strait of Canso, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The town, which was originally named Ship Harbour, is the business and industrial centre for the lower part of Cape Breton. Major employers include a large pulp and paper mill owned by the Swedish company Stora Enso, a call centre owned by EDS Canada, and a large coal fired power generating plant. Sad relics of failed industrial policies past include a mothballed oil refinery built by Gulf Oil in the early 1970s and a disused heavy water plant built by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL). Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia I used this online map creation tool to generate this map. ...
Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia I used this online map creation tool to generate this map. ...
Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada Cape Breton Island (French: île du Cap-Breton, Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Cheap Breatuinn, Mikmaq: Unamakika, simply: Cape Breton) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America. ...
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Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada Cape Breton Island (French: île du Cap-Breton, Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Cheap Breatuinn, Mikmaq: Unamakika, simply: Cape Breton) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America. ...
The Strait of Canso (also Gut of Canso or Canso Strait), is located in northeastern North America in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. ...
Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the other conquers) Official languages None (English,French,Gaelic) Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Lieutenant-Governor Myra Freeman Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 11 10 Area Total • Land • Water (% of total) Ranked 12th 55,283...
Stora Enso Oyj (NYSE: SEO) is a Finnish–Swedish pulp and paper manufacturer, formed by the merger of Swedish mining and forestry products company Stora and Finnish forestry products company Enso in 1998. ...
EDS may refer to: Ed. ...
Gulf Oil was a major global oil company from the 1900s to the 1980s. ...
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited or AECL is a Canadian federal Crown corporation with the responsibility to manage Canadian nuclear policy, promote nuclear energy and research, and to oversee nuclear waste developed by Canadian nuclear reactors as well as manage the decommissioning of older reactors. ...
Modestly famous persons coming from Port Hawkesbury include Cora Cluett, a widely shown painter and photographer (now teaching at the University of Waterloo in Ontario), Glenn Peers, an authority on medieval art and iconography (teaching at the University of Texas at Austin), and Ian MacKinnon, a musician and occasional political candidate. The University of Waterloo, also known as UW or simply Waterloo, is a medium-sized research-intensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. ...
The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. ...
Stora Enso
Since late December 2005,the employes of Stora Enso have been locked out. Talks have been ongoing between the workers and Stora's owners.However,nothing have come out these talks and Stora has talked of closing the paper mill if they can not come to an agreement.This has affected all aspects of Port Hawkesbury.Some people now doubt that Stora Enso, will re-open it's paper mill, in Port Hawkesbury.
Notable people from Port Hawkesbury Aaron Johnson an NHL draft pick now playing with the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets Aaron Johnson (April 30, 1983) in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia is a professional ice hockey player who currently plays defense for the National Hockey Leagues Columbus Blue Jackets. ...
NHL can also be an abbreviation for National Historic Landmark or Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. ...
The Columbus Blue Jackets are a professional ice hockey team based in Columbus, Ohio. ...
Mark Day a Canadian Film and Television actor now living in Toronto Mark Day (born October 4, 1978 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian actor. ...
Jamie "Mookie" MacMillan an independant radio producer and DJ.
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