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October 23, 2016

Located 20 minuets from the Cabot Trail offers the best scenic view anywhere in the world

Is Canada's east coast ready for the future ?

With the Container ships getting as large as they are and the cost of labour and fuel as high as it is now a 26 hour cut in travel time will be very significant to shipping costs.

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Captain Maguire's Quarters is a project that is now in search of financing, with the fact that this container yard has the blessing of the environment people of Nova Scotia, and the Municipal, Provincial and Federal Governments, its safe to say that it is time to start putting things in motion to make it happen.

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Members of the Antigonish business community gathered to hear an update and status report from Mahar Melford International Terminals.
The company, which plans to develop a deep-water container terminal at Melford on the Strait of Canso, presented at a luncheon at the Keating Centre hosted by the Antigonish Chamber of Commerce and Antigonish Regional Development Authority.
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This is the home where Leona Gertrude Maguire

 was raised in the Town of Guysbrough

In Days gone past many a sailor have been offered lodging by The Maguire's

in the Town of Guysbrough

and in Steep Creek

Behind the Dunbar house in Mulgrave,

 can be seen a large ship sailing the Strait of Canso

In 1876 the Schooner Kittie left Port Mulgrave Sunday, April 2, 1876, bound for Boston.

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After the August Gale of 1873

plenty of cleanup was needed

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Captain John Maguire one of several to Skipper the ferries took a turn at the helm of Scotia 2 the ferry from Mulgrave  to Point Tupper Nova Scotia, by the time they had put in the Causeway Captain John had long since moved on to the Borden-Tormentine service.

Captain John Maguire took the helm of the Prince Edward and took that ferry through the change from coal to oil fired burners. He was at the helm of that ferry, the life line of the people of prince Edward Island through the second world war

(see the story about the torpedo attack)

  Today this Majestic ship is on the water in

Chicago and is serving as a Yacht Club

http://www.columbiayachtclub.org/

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One of Prince Edward Island's more notorious rum runners, the Nellie J. Banks eluded authorities until August 9, 1938, and was the last rum runner seized off Atlantic Canada.

Captain John Maguire bought the Nellie J Banks from the Government auction and renamed her the Leona G. Maguire after the Captains daughter.

(See the story and hear the song about the Nellie J Banks)

Charles Osbourne Maguire