The Portland Cement Ruins

A few days ago I visited the ruins of the old Portland Cement ruins. The cement factory was built in 1905 in a little town named Point Anne that is now often referred to as a ghost town. 3 years after the cement factory was built, another cement factory was built called The Leigh Cement factory. It was built about 3 km east of the first plant. In 1909 the Portland Cement company had started to buy up as many properties as possible, they eventually acquired both plants and in 1914 they consolidated and shut down the older of the two plants. The remaining plant, which was named Canada Cement Plant #5 remained the communities only major employer for the next 60 years. The plant closed down for good in 1973 and then was later demolished. At it's peak the cement factory produced on average a total of 16 million bags of cement per year.

I have also located the ruins for the second plant but they weren't half as exciting as the Portland ones so I didn't bother to photograph any of them.

The ruins of the Portland factory are huge and well worth a visit if you like this sort of thing. I spent hours here and the ruins seemed to travel forever before I called it quits as I was losing daylight.