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Port Hawkesbury (2001 population 3,701) is a town located on the southwestern end of Cape Breton Island, on the north shore of the Strait of Canso, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The town, which was originally named Ship Harbour, is the business and industrial centre for the lower part of Cape Breton. Major employers include a large pulp and paper mill owned by the Swedish company Stora Enso, a call centre owned by EDS Canada, and a large coal fired power generating plant. Sad relics of failed industrial policies past include a mothballed oil refinery built by Gulf Oil in the early 1970s and a disused heavy water plant built by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL).
Modestly famous persons coming from Port Hawkesbury include Cora Cluett, a widely shown painter and photographer (now teaching at the University of Waterloo in Ontario), Glenn Peers, an authority on medieval art and iconography (teaching at the University of Texas at Austin), and Ian MacKinnon, a musician and occasional political candidate.
Stora Enso
Members of CEP (Communications, Energy, Paperworkers Union of Canada) Local 972 have been locked out by Stora Enso management since 26 January 2006, although machines have not been running since shut-down on 24 December 2005. Talks have been ongoing between the more than 600 union members and management, however, no agreements have been made. Stora Enso has set a deadline of 24 June 2006 for a labour agreement to be reached between management and workers before it will start to dismantle and close the papermill. Stora Enso and the CEP have been without a current labour agreement since 31 May 2004.
The Stora workers narrowly accepted a recent deal that, if an agreement is worked out with NSP (Nova Scotia Power), will see Stora reopening sometime in the next year.
Notable people from Port Hawkesbury
Aaron Johnson an NHL draft pick now playing with the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets
Mark Day a Canadian Film and Television actor now living in Toronto
External links
"Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia"