Quebec Asbestos Corporation, Ltd., East Broughton, Quebec

Quebec Asbestos Corporation worked chrysotile at East Broughton, Quebec, and the earliest source to mention it is Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, which reported in April 1921 that the company "at East Broughton has closed the No. 2 Mill, formerly the Asbestos Fibre Mining Company property, but are operating the No. 1 Mill."⁵ The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook names Quebec Asbestos Corporation among the producers of the Quebec area for 1943.¹ In August 1949 the trade journal wrote that the company, "whose present workings are at East Broughton," was looking over holdings in Munro Township and near Cochrane and Sault Sainte Marie in Ontario, where "drilling is just starting to determine whether the asbestos exists in commercial quantities."² The yearbook names it among the companies operating in the Quebec area in 1951; its list of Canadian producers for 1952, "in order of size of output," places the company after Canadian Johns-Manville, Asbestos Corp. and Johnson's Co., and it is named again among the producers in Quebec in 1953.^3,4,6 For 1954 the yearbook reported its "discovery of a new extensive asbestos deposit about 3 miles from its present East Broughton operation."⁷ The journal's review of Quebec mining in 1958 says the company "closed its doors at the end of June."⁸

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.⁶

Location

Year by year

Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.

1921

• Mill: “closed the No. 2 Mill ... but are operating the No. 1 Mill” (Quebec Asbestos Corporation), p. 66⁵

1943

• Worked: “Other producers are ... Quebec Asbestos Corporation, Ltd.” (Quebec Asbestos Corporation, Ltd.), p. 9¹

1949

• Worked: “whose present workings are at East Broughton, Quebec” (Quebec Asbestos Corporation), p. 42²
• Exploration: “looking over holdings ... in Munro Township ... and those near Cochrane and Sault Ste. Marie. Drilling is just starting” (Quebec Asbestos Corporation), p. 42²

1951

• Worked: “Quebec Asbestos Corp. (operating in the Quebec area)” (Quebec Asbestos Corp.), p. 7³

1952

• Worked: “Quebec Asbestos Corp.” (Quebec Asbestos Corp.), p. 8⁴

1953

• Worked: “Quebec Asbestos Corp.” (Quebec Asbestos Corp.), p. 9⁶

1954

• Worked: “its present East Broughton operation” (Quebec Asbestos Corp.), p. 10⁷

1958

• Closed: “Quebec Asbestos Corporation Limited closed its doors at the end of June” (Quebec Asbestos Corporation Limited), p. 22⁸

Other names

Documents call this mine “Quebec Asbestos Corporation, Ltd.”, “Quebec Asbestos Corp.”, “East Broughton operation”, “No. 1 Mill”, “No. 2 Mill”.

References

1. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1943 (January 1, 1944), p. 9.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1949, August 1949 (August 1, 1949), p. 42.
3. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1951 (January 1, 1952), p. 7.
4. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1952 (January 1, 1953), p. 8.
5. Asbestos Magazine, 1921, April 1921 (April 1, 1921), p. 66.
6. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1953 (January 1, 1954), p. 9.
7. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1954 (January 1, 1955), p. 10.
8. Asbestos Magazine, 1959, July 1959 (July 1, 1959), p. 22.