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Roads homes apartments schools nun bus suhuums Metro Toronto expansion built on Acton aggregates ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH 13 The Construction Materials Division of Limited including the two In County ntano and the two trlbulion yards In cast and west Toronto last year sold substantially more than three and million tons of aggregates for construction and road building projects In and around the Metro Toronto area Thai is big business and Indicates ihe extent of Indus mins contribution In 1973 to the pattern of grow and progress in the city and Almost half of lhat tonnage for instance went new roads to service Ihe fast developing Metropolitan Toronto area and a third of it went con strucllon of one kind or another including homes apartments schools and plants In all the construction materials division supplied some 1 individual customers in the Toronto area In compared to the customers it served in the previous year The figures are They are even more so when it remembered that Indus which began life in 1935 as a producer of and Inter silica has only in the aggregates or a scant seven years The history of the com construction materials division is thus fairly recent although Ihe history of the County area itself as in industrial minerals producer goes back more than a hundred years acquired the big Acton quarry and plant and the two associated yards In Toronto in as a result of a merger in that year with Lime stone Quarries limited years later inthcearly caLAVATIONS ARE going ahead for the tertiary spring of 1070 Indusmin -J- acquired from Crushed Stone ltd the quarry and plant the town of Milton just south and a little west of Acton Most modern The Acton plant crusher building at Acton quarry The company has another quarry near Milton as well as the large Acton operation was one of the largest and most modern operations in riginally built In by North Construction Acton I Quarries or the distribution yard at and at the time of ih con Scarborough began in late ACTON QUARRY and plant as it is today EventuaUythe program to restore the environment at all Indusmin quarry area will be rehabilitated under a long range properties AB SUPERMARKET MILL ST ACTON SHOULDER ROAST BUTT ROAST BUTT CHOPS 89 Meat Department Specials FRESH PORK TOWN CLUB NO 1 SIDE BACON 99 BEEF STEAK PIES Kumu 129 BACK BAC0H u SCHNEIDERS OZ HEADCHEESE BOWLS SCHNEIDERS 6 COOKED HAM 69 SCHNEIDERS POLISH SAUSAGE 109 PRICES EFFECTIVE MARCH 13 IS SPECIALS 48 TIN ORANGE JUICE 8530650 SAVE DEL MONTE TINS SAVE PINEAPPLE 279 CHASE Si SANBORN 10 OZ JAR SAVE INSTANT COFFEE 159 1 LIMIT 2 TO A CUSTOMER COLGATE SIZE SAVE 20c SPECIAL PUNCH rg DETERGENT FRANCO AMERICAN TINS SAVE SPAGHETTI BOTTLE LIQUID BLEACH SAVE 14c 89 DUNCAN OZ SAVE CAKE MIXES FRESH PRODUCE DAILY S NO LARGE HEADS LETTUCE 29 RENT A CASCADE HOT WATER HEATER lie- STILL VISIBLE but much smaller in size are remains of the old limestone kilns at the site of quarry operations at Acton This photo was taken in the 1960 s The kilns were built in the late 1800 s and were part of the scene at Dolly Varden for years YORK 18 JAR PEANUT BUTTER SAVE 16c 59 CABBACE 2 DC PUBLIC SALE Giant Removal Sale Color TV Components Slashed TVs COLOR TVS STEREOS ALL SLASHED SENSATIONAL PRESEAS0N CLEARANCE SALE PERSONAL FroM PRICES SLASHED ON ALL COLOR TV frBLACK WHITE HI COMPONENTS SLASHED MONEY DOWN AND LOOK NO PAYMENTS UNTIL MAY 1974 ON AN EXTENDED TERM PLAN See Us For PANASONIC QUASAR PHILLIPS MODULAR 4 SYLVANIA ETC SYLVUIA COLOR WITH TRADE 1W SOUS STATE color With Remote Control smuni ir WITH TRADE No rata Ho ntnM km COUNTRY PETE Joins forces with FARMER JACK To enable them to really PRICES PHONE TONIGHT DELIVERY TONIGHT 8782373 OPEN SUNDAY to 6 10 It HWY 25 JUST NORTH OF HWY 1962 arid at laic In the following year Nickel Mines I united In acquired a equity Interest in the company and increased this holding a few yean later of Acton I imestone Quarries Limited with sub Industrial Minerals of Canada Limited Inter followed in 1967 The Acton I com name dropped and the operation became a part of I imited The operation at Milton as noted became part of Indus mm aggregates business in April of when it was leased Crushed Stone The Milton enterprise was launched by Halton Crushed Stone in the early summer of following some two years of Intensive dcvclop- Its first big Job was to supply all con stone for Ontario major land Highway in the set lor from Highway io to eontlnulnR Improvement Although the Acton plant still operates at its original reduction rale or BOD tons per our a considerable number of improvement have been made and are being made At Milton too there Is continuous program to prove plant efficiency with the emphasis currently replacement and of mobile equipment The Acton improvements include A new circuit impact type crusher I provide a more cubical shaped product for concrete aggregate wish plant added for the rinsing or cleansing of dust from concrete stone A new laboratory to provide a continuous pro- grim of quality control for all Division products of the Construction Materials Division now produces than products ranging from rubble or run material to aggreguteh brick sand inch chip and stone used retaining walls To produce these products in large quantitu Division employs tot of 114 people including the two the yards and at he I office Toronto Itlch In history history of aggregate mining the district as noted before is comparatively recent As far back is the 1840 however there was considerable mining and processing of limestone deposits in the area and the activity forms an interesting chapter in the settlement of Ontario Still visible at Indusmin Acton quarry for Instance arc the remains of old lime stone kilns which were built the The calcareous beds of limestone in the area and along the Niagara escarp ment wcr found by early settlers to be an excellent source of lime Tor the making of cement and plaster ami many lime kilns were built to produce this valuable material The present village of imehouse near Acton took its name from this form of mining The earliest lime kilns used In the area were about feet high and were known as pot or set kilns and it Is possible these kilns date back to the I was busy Then came draw or shaft kilns of the type built at the Acton quarry and these were i rob ably constructed in the ate ia70s These kilns were roughly 13 by feet at the base tapering toward the top and reaching heights of up to or more feet It recorded Contr in page