New book documents life of Sackville’s foundries in time for 170th and 150th anniversaries
If you had told Susan Amos three years ago that she would end up writing the book on the Sackville foundries, she would not have believed you. “I would have said, what exactly is a foundry?” says Amos with a laugh. “But I ended up doing it.”
Amos is launching Foundries of Sackville, NB this Saturday with a slide presentation and talk at town hall at 2pm. The book is already available for purchase through the Tantramar Heritage Trust.
Part of Amos’s inspiration for documenting the foundries was her family connection: a great uncle was hired by Charles Fawcett in the early 1900s as a designer for the foundry. And when she found out there were no books published on the town’s manufacturing stalwarts, she decided to get to work. “They were a major employer in our town for years,” says Amos. “Eight generations of employees, thousands and thousands of workers, and no books. So I wanted to have a book so that we don’t lose this part of our heritage.”
The publication of Foundries of Sackville is timed to coincide with celebrations this year of the 170th anniversary of the Fawcett Foundry and the 150th anniversary of the Enterprise Foundry.
Listen to Susan Amos talk foundries on Tantramar Report:
Amos says, “it took a village” to write the book.… Continue