Pugwash, Nova Scotia for farm use and refined salt for domestic consumption. The mine produces approximately 1,200,000 tones of salt per year. The salt is distributed by road or from the company owned ship-loading facility for which large ships can be seen in the harbour from early spring to late autumn. Pugwash, Nova Scotia Pugwash (2012 population: 736) is a village in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada. The village is home to fishing, salt mining, and small-scale manufacturing and is situated on the Northumberland Strait at the mouth of the Pugwash River. Pugwash takes its name from the native Mi'kmaq word, "Pagweak," meaning
Pugwash station time, and it was built by Rhodes, Curry & Co.. The first passengers to arrive via railway to Pugwash was a group of Cumberland County school teachers, October 28, 1890. It is built of brick and is described as "restrained gothic style, two stories, cross gable roof with 6 hip gable dormers and decorative faces". The railway station was listed on September 11, 1996 as a Municipally Registered Property under the Heritage Property Act, and as a Provincially Registered Property under the same statute in 2009. The Pugwash railway station is one of only two stations designed by Fleming still