Canadian Gypsum Company (Windsor, NS)

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Canadian Gypsum Company (Windsor, NS)

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      • CGC Inc.
      • Fundy Gypsum Plant (Windsor, NS)

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      Dates of existence

      1907-2011

      History

      The Canadian Gypsum Company began in 1907 in Windsor, NS as a private business quarrying and exporting gypsum rock from Nova Scotia to the United States. In the early 1920s it became part of the United States Gypsum Company (USG) but operated in Canada under its own name. In 1926 the Canadian Gypsum Company absorbed the nearby Wentworth Gypsum Company (begun in 1875) and a year later the Newport Plaster Mining and Manufacturing Company (begun in 1912) was added. Starting in 1962 it operated as the Fundy Gypsum Company, still a part of the larger holding company USG, until the plant in Windsor was closed in November 2011, ending gypsum mining operations in Nova Scotia. As of April 2019, the Canadian Gypsum Company (called CGC Inc.) and its parent United States Gypsum are both part of Knauf Group.

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      Created 2023-05-08 Karen White

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          Gypsum Property Ownership and Leases government report by Mark W.G. King, Mineral Development Division, NS Department of Mines and Energy (Halifax, 1985) page 8. Accessed online 14 April 2022. https://novascotia.ca/natr/meb/data/ofr/OFR_ME_651_445216.pdf

          C.G.C. Inc. website About pages. Accessed 14 April 2022 https://www.usg.com/content/usgcom/en_CA_east/about-cgc.html

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