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84 The Granite Industry of Southwestern New Brunswick: A Historical Perspective The Quarries: Welsford Area As neither Wright (1934) nor Wright and Cole (1937) discussed the Welsford quarries, we lack descriptions of the sites as they appeared in the 1930s. The following accounts are based mainly on newspaper articles of the day, Bailey and Matthew (1872), and Martin (1990a, p. 136). Above: Hampstead quarry, c. 1910s. Cropped from PANB, P32-93 Suitable material can be obtained from these quarries to supply monumental stock, both dies and bases; dimension stone of all sizes; and curbing and paving blocks. The company is equipped to produce finished monuments and building stone, as well as curbstones and paving material when called for. At present, the biggest demand is for monumental and building stock. Good examples of stone supplied by this company can be seen in the Capital Theatre in Halifax, the foundation of the Bank of Nova Scotia in Halifax, the Telephone Building in Saint John, and the Normal School in Fredericton. Above: Hampstead quarry, 2012. Sculpture Saint John (2013).
Part Two — The Hampstead District 85 Nerepis South The European and North American Railway (ENR) between Saint John and Shediac was completed in 1860. Nine years later, workers finished the Western Extension of the ENR, which passed from Saint John northwestward through Welsford to McAdam. At intervals along the Western Extension, several quarries were opened, including ones situated about two and a half miles southeast of Welsford at Eagle Rock on the southwest side of the Nerepis River (Map 6, 63). Railway contractors first removed stone from Eagle Rock in 1868. The quarries supplied material for culverts and bridges of the Western Extension, which later became part of the Canadian Pacific Railway. When Bailey and Matthew (1872, p. 183) visited the quarries, they reported that large quantities of readily split rock had been removed and that it made an ‘excellent building material.’ The next recorded activity came in 1883, when the quarries at Eagle Rock and Hampstead provided foundation stone for the Intercolonial Railway train sheds in Saint John. In October 1887, fifty men working under contractor Hogan extracted stone from Eagle Rock for the Fredericton railway bridge. Only when railway construction in the region ceased did quarrying at Eagle Rock end as 66°23’ 0 Mount Douglas 101 Mount Douglas Granite Bayards Crossing 2 km Late Devonian Nerepis Welsford Granitic rocks Late Silurian 64 63 Syenitic, granitic and minor dioritic rocks 7 7 McKenzie River Brook Welsford Granite Silurian Volcanic and sedimentary rocks Precambrian Volcanic and intrusive rocks Saint John River Quarry Names 63 Nerepis South 64 Nerepis North Geological contact Fault 45°30’ 45°24’ Map 6. Location of the granite quarries in the Welsford area. Map 1 (p. 2) shows the outline of this area in southwestern New Brunswick.
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