EPISODE 325 DEMOLITION OF THE TEXACO REFINERY IN 1985…NOW CALLED BRIGHTWATER …A NEW PORT CREDIT COMMUNITY 2021

EPISODE 325 DEMOLITION OF THE TEXACO REFINERY… IN 2021 CALLED BRIGHTWATER, A NEW PORT CREDIT COMMUNITY

alan skeoch

april 2021

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Picture of Port Credit Brick Yard in 1908

THE DEMOLITION DAY AT THE PORT CREDIT TEXACO REFINERY — YEAR 1985

1) Port Credit established 1834

2) Brick Yard on site for 40 years from 1889 tp 1929

(ceased making bricks in 1920, land sat unused to 1929

3) Lloyd Refinery 1932 to 1937

4) Good Rich Refinery 1937 to 1946

5) Regent Refinery to 1959

6) McColl Frontenac 1955

7) Texaco Refinery to 1959

8) Demolition 1985

(Soil polluted – expensive to reclaim…so families of coyotes took residence)