Two heritage churches and a school, built by Amos Seaman, the "Grindstone King."
Photographed on 30 July 2003
Photographed on 30 July 2003
The above photographs were taken on 30 July 2003.
The above photographs were taken on 30 July 2003.
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Links to Relevant Websites
The Minudie Millionaire by Bill Hamilton
King Seaman School Museum
Minudie Interpretive Park by Fundy Shore Ecotour
Lower Cove: Former Site of Booming Grindstone Quarry
An Infant Railway: What the Iron Horse will do for the Joggins
The History of Joggins
Joggins
St. Denis Church, Barronsfield Road, Minudie
Amos Seaman House, Minudie
Amos Seaman's mansion, a.k.a. Grindstone Castle, Minudie, 1875 |
200 Grindstones now in SackvilleIn the mid-1980's, Mr. Herbert C. Read dismantled the Grindstone Museumwhich he had put together in the "Carriage House" of the Marshlands Inn in Sackville, New Brunswick, (the old family home – a Heritage Property) and donated all its contents to the town of Sackville. In January, 1999, these articles were passed on to the Tantramar Heritage Trust, including about 200 beautiful grindstones which likely originated from the Stonehaven quarry... Source: The White Fence the Tantramar Heritage Trust newsletter, March 1999 http://heritage.tantramar.com/WFNewsletter_8.html |
A Thriving IndustryIn 1847 over 33,000 grindstones were shipped from Cumberland County...Source: Secondary Processing of Industrial Minerals in Nova Scotia http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/meb/ic/ic53.htm |
Archived Business RecordsThe Public Archives of Nova Scotia has the business records of theMinudie Mining and Transportation Company, 1867-1901 1.1 metres MG 3 Vol.: 5077-5085 |
Grindstone CompaniesOn 10 May 1864, Major-General Hastings Doyle, Lieutenant-Governor ofNova Scotia, gave Royal Assent to an Act for the Incorporation of the South Joggins Freestone and Grindstone Quarrying Company (owned by Amos Seaman). Source: page 168 of Journal of Proceedings of Her Majesty's Legislative Council of the province of Nova Scotia, 1864 CIHM 9_00947_38 Nova Scotia Legislature, 1873, chapter 55: — An Act to incorporate the Minudie Mining and Transportation Company Limited Seaman & Company of Lower Cove, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, exhibited grindstones at the International Exhibition of Philadelphia, 1876. Source: page 7 of Catalog of Canadian Exhibitors in the Report of the Canadian Commission at the International Exhibition of Philadelphia, 1876 CIHM 9_03761 Atlantic Grindstone, Coal & Railway Company Limited Nova Scotia Legislature, 1906, chapter 155: — An Act to authorize the amalgamation of Atlantic Grindstone, Coal & Railway Company with Atlantic Grindstone Company and Fundy Coal Company. Nova Scotia Legislature, 1887, chapter 63: — An Act to incorporate the Minudie Railway Company Limited Nova Scotia Legislature, 1888, chapter 80: — An Act to amend the Act to incorporate the Minudie Railway Company Limited and to extend the line. The following Dominion Acts also applied to this railway: Dominion Parliament, 1887 chapter 24 — Dominion Parliament, 1889 chapter 3 — Dominion Parliament, 1894 chapter 4 — Dominion Parliament, 1903 chapter 57 — Nova Scotia Legislature, 1902, chapter 140: — An Act to incorporate the Minudie Coal Company Limited Amended 1905, chapter 137 Nova Scotia Legislature, 1903, chapter 190: — An Act to incorporate the Minudie Coal Railway Company Limited |
ReferenceNova Scotia Legislature, 1874, chapter 103: — An Act to authorize the saleof certain trust property, Minudie Estate, Cumberland County "Seaman Street," Halifax Sunday Herald, 21 September 2003 |
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The Virtual Museum of Canada has assembled an impressive collection of historical material about King Seaman, his grindstone business, and his many other interests and accomplishments. This material, comprising more than 200 items including old photographs and other documents, has been digitized and posted online. Normally, I would include a link here to direct interested viewers to the Virtual Museum's material about King Seaman of Minudie, Nova Scotia. Unfortunately, the Virtual Museum website is badly designed, with several significant deficiencies. The worst design deficiency is the navigation – baffling, obscure, enigmatic, unfathomable. The internal search is next to useless. A link to the Virtual Museum of Canada will lead to frustration, not to enlightenment. For that reason, no link to it appears here. ICS 28 December 2007 |
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