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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 ), 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 , well known Politician also Mayor Billy Joe MacLean and Ian MacKinnon , a musician and occasional political candidate. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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