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Ship Unloads Raw Sugar at the Oshawa harbour

Colour aerial photograph of the land around the Oshawa Harbour. There are two large factories and a ship unloads raw sugar at the harbour.

Source: HOPA, Port Oshawa, Archival Collection
Date: 1970s

Raw sugar cane is unloading at the Oshawa harbour.  Note the sugar plant, West Cane Sugar, located a few kilometres north of the harbour docks.

Since the early 1980s, several sugar facilities and distribution centres have been closed, costs have been cut and productivity has been improved. Prior to 1980, there were ten sugar processing plants operating across Canada. By 1980, there were six, and by 2000, the number of plants was down to four — three cane sugar refineries and one sugar beet processing plant.  West Cane Refinery (Lantic Sugar) closed their plant in Oshawa in 1988.

West Cane Sugar, Oshawa, Ontario (1974; acquired by Lantic 1983; closed 1988).