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Timeline
Businesses Under Smallwood's Economic Development Plan
| Year |
Business Name |
Location |
Cost |
Closure |
| 1950 |
North Star Cement |
Corner Brook |
$3.7 million |
2000 |
| 1950 |
Atlantic Gypsum1 |
Corner Brook |
$1.5 million |
remains |
| 1951 |
Canadian Machinery and Industry Construction Limited |
Octagon |
$5 million |
1980s |
| 1951 |
United Cotton Mills |
St. John’s |
$4 million |
1986 |
| 1951 |
Atlantic Films & Electronics |
St. John’s |
$20,000 |
1980s |
| 1951 |
NFLD Hardwoods Ltd. |
Donovan’s |
$2 million |
1980s |
| 1952 |
Atlantic Hardboard Ind. Ltd. |
Donovan’s |
$575,000 |
closed |
| 1952 |
Newfoundland Tanneries |
Carbonear |
$750,000 |
1957 |
| 1953 |
Atlantic Gloves Limited |
Carbonear |
$350,000 |
1957 |
| 1953 |
Gold Sail Leather Goods |
Harbour Grace |
$200,000 |
1960 |
| 1954 |
Hanning Electric Limited |
Topsail |
$325,000 |
1958 |
| 1954 |
Superior Rubber |
Holyrood |
$1 millon |
1956 |
| 1954 |
Terra Nova Textiles |
Harbour Grace |
$500,000 |
1986 |
| 1954 |
Koch Shoes2 |
Harbour Grace |
$750,000 |
remains |
| 1956 |
A. Adler Company |
Bay Roberts |
$550,000 |
1960 |
| 1957 |
Eckhardt Knitting Mills |
Brigus |
$387,400 |
1960s |
1Atlantic Gypsum is privately owned, but still in operation.
2Still in operation as Terra Nova Shoes.
Source: Newfoundland. Royal Commission on Employment and Unemployment. Building on our strengths: report of the Royal Commmission on Employment and Unemployment. St. John's: The Commission, 1986. Print.
By Melanie Martin. ©2006, Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site.
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