In the 1960s, Electric Reduction Company of Canada Industries Limited (ERCO) built a phosphorus manufacturing plant at Long Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador. The plant closed in 1989, leaving 290 people out of work.

Reproduced by permission of Martha (Lake) Sanger © 1974. From Martha Lake, “ The Long Harbour Phosphorus Plant: Pollution of the Physical Environment ” (Unpublished paper, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1974).