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Caption: Marker detail: Senator / Colonel Thomas Cantley
Additional Description: (Entrepreneur, Businessman, Politician)In the year 1885 a young Thomas Cantley was hired by the Nova Scotia Steel Company to be its "sales agent" for Upper Canada. Young Thomas never looked back and he eventually became the President and General Manager of the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company of Trenton. Through Mr. Cantley's initiatives and encouragements the company grew to become one of the most well respected firms in all of Canada during the early twentieth century.

"He never in public lost an opportunity to extol the ability of the Pictou County workers as mechanics and men to be depended upon".
Submitted: May 26, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p523371
File Size: 0.465 Megabytes

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