Farm, Grain, Mill, Fish
Atlantic Sugar Refineries
1 picture · 1958
- Founded
- 1912 (Atlantic Sugar Refineries, Saint John); Acadia Sugar lineage from 1893 Nova Scotia consolidations; Acadia-Atlantic name 1945; Atlantic Sugar Refineries Co. Limited 1962
- Head office then
- Montreal, Quebec
Atlantic Sugar, then named Acadia-Atlantic, refined cane sugar from a Montreal office. The Saint John refinery, built in 1912 and in production in 1915, took raw cane at the winter port and shipped refined sugar and molasses by rail. The 1958 report also listed a plant at Woodside, Dartmouth.
Saint John was one of a handful of Canadian cane refineries that made refined sugar at home instead of importing it.
Why it mattered
Saint John was built as an east-coast cane refinery for winter-port raw-sugar imports and domestic refined sugar. Together with Montreal and later Toronto and Vancouver plants, Atlantic/Lantic was one of a handful of Canadian refiners that replaced imported refined sugar.
Now
The company went into Jannock in 1973 and became the Lantic sugar business. Lantic closed the Saint John refinery in 2000 and demolished it in 2004. Lantic and Rogers merged in 2008 as Lantic Inc.
Still open
- Whether Woodside/Dartmouth was still refining in 1958 (the annual report lists it) or had been shut since wartime 1942 (Shipfax and local accounts). Land sale 1974 not confirmed in a government or company history page.
- Exact year the operating company took the Lantic name (in use by the 1980s; company history treats Lantic as the successor of Atlantic/Acadia).
- Share split among Jannock, Steinberg and lenders after the 1981 Cartier transaction beyond Jannock's stated 47.5 percent.
Sources
The pictures
- Atlantic Sugar Refineries 1958 — annual reportarchive.org/details/Atla0854_1958
References
- Lantic / Rogers: History of Rogers Sugar & Lantic SugarAcadia → Atlantic 1912 Saint John; Lantic buys St. Lawrence 1984; Saint John closed 2000; Lantic Inc. 2008
- Canadian Sugar Institute: History of the Sugar Industry in Canadaindependent confirmation of Saint John 1912, 1984 St. Lawrence purchase, 2000 Saint John close, 2008 Lantic–Rogers merger
- McGill Canadian Corporate Reports: Atlantic Sugar Refineries Co. LimitedAcadia-Atlantic 1945; Atlantic Sugar 1962; amalgamated into Jannock 1973
- Jannock Ltd. Annual Report 1982 (Internet Archive / McGill)3 July 1981 Atlantic Sugar acquired Cartier Sugar assets; Jannock interest 47.5%
- Encyclopedia.com: Steinberg IncorporatedSteinberg 50% Lantic sold to B.C. Sugar, January 1990
- Global News: Former Saint John sugar refinery site, 30 August 2023Saint John plant operated from 1915; demolished 2004