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Retrieval Number: 7001/218
W.W. Fawcett & Sons, Seed and Table Potatoes and Hay [letterhead, 194?].
Mount Allison University Archives, Parks Canada Webster Manuscript Collection.
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W.W. Fawcett and sons letterhead.

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The full text of this document is a letter from W.W. Fawcett to Dr. J. Clarence Webster, offering a photograph and other possible family records for the Fort Beausejour museum that Webster was spearheading. However the interest in this document pertains to Fawcett's business letterhead which points to his role as a seed and table potato dealer in addition to dealing in hay. This highlights efforts to find other agricultural staples for the area following the collapse of the hay economy. Recognizing the value of the potato industry in nearby Prince Edward Island, some farmers experimented with the cultivation of this crop as a means to diversify. In spite of these efforts potato farming made little headway in the Tantramar region in the immediate postwar era. Only in the past couple of decades has this farm specialization shown signs of taking hold in Westmorland as a few large producers have emerged in the area near Cape Tormentine, some distance north of the Tantramar. This activity has been enhanced by the Confederation Bridge linking P.E.I. to New Brunswick because it allows producers in Westmorland to truck their potatoes to processing plants on Prince Edward Island.

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