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| + | This textile plant in [[Yarmouth]] was a major employer and customer of the railway from its start in 1883 to its end in 1991. Established as the "Yarmouth Duck and Yarn Company" in 1883 by local owners, it made sail canvas for local shipbuilders. It expanded in 1891 to make rope and fishing supplies. In 1902 the company was sold to an American company, Consolidated Cotton Duck Company (later International Cotton company) and renamed "Cosmos Cotton Company", renamed after a 1925 merger as the "Cosmos Imperial Mills Ltd." By the 1950s, the company had evolved to produce cotton duck fabric used to make tarpaulins, awning and tents. About 1975 Dominion Textile bought out Cosmos Imperial Mills and operated the plant until December 1991.<ref>[https://memoryns.ca/dominion-textile-inc-yarmouth-n-s, Dominion Textile Inc. (Yarmouth, N.S.), ''Memory NS'']</ref> The plant employed 500 workers in peak years and thousands of carloads of cotton bales were delivered by rail throughout the mill's existence. Some employees felt that plant closed due to the loss of economical cotton delivery by rail after the DAR's line to Yarmouth ended in 1990.<ref>[https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/lifestyles/then-and-now-yarmouth-cotton-mill-wove-more-than-threads-together-workers-became-family-285737/ Carla Allen, "THEN AND NOW: Yarmouth cotton mill wove more than threads together – workers became family", Saltwire Network, Feb. 19, 2019]</ref> | ||
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File:Summer 2010 064.jpg|Mural credit at [[Dominion Textile Company]] site, July 9, 2010. | File:Summer 2010 064.jpg|Mural credit at [[Dominion Textile Company]] site, July 9, 2010. | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
http://www.swsda.com/yaic/domtex/index.html | http://www.swsda.com/yaic/domtex/index.html | ||
Revision as of 17:53, 9 April 2022
Dominion Textile / Cosmos Imperial / Cosmos Cotton / Yarmouth Duck and Yarn Company
This textile plant in Yarmouth was a major employer and customer of the railway from its start in 1883 to its end in 1991. Established as the "Yarmouth Duck and Yarn Company" in 1883 by local owners, it made sail canvas for local shipbuilders. It expanded in 1891 to make rope and fishing supplies. In 1902 the company was sold to an American company, Consolidated Cotton Duck Company (later International Cotton company) and renamed "Cosmos Cotton Company", renamed after a 1925 merger as the "Cosmos Imperial Mills Ltd." By the 1950s, the company had evolved to produce cotton duck fabric used to make tarpaulins, awning and tents. About 1975 Dominion Textile bought out Cosmos Imperial Mills and operated the plant until December 1991.[1] The plant employed 500 workers in peak years and thousands of carloads of cotton bales were delivered by rail throughout the mill's existence. Some employees felt that plant closed due to the loss of economical cotton delivery by rail after the DAR's line to Yarmouth ended in 1990.[2]
Gallery
Bird's Eve View of Yarmouth Nova Scotia 1889: Detail of Yarmouth Station, the Yarmouth Enginehouse and the Yarmouth Duck and Canvas Company 1889, 1889.
Dominion Textile Company cotton mill, with DAR tracks behind, 1931.
No. 2551 in Yarmouth with the Dominion Textile Company, August 28, 1953.
No. 2551 with the Dominion Textile Company in background, Yarmouth, August 29, 1953.
Former Dominion Textile Company cotton mill railway loading/unloading dock area.
CP Rail boxcar at Dominion Textile Company.
Mural at Dominion Textile Company site, July 9, 2010.
Mural at Dominion Textile Company site, July 9, 2010.
Mural credit at Dominion Textile Company site, July 9, 2010.
