Claybank Brick Plant to hold annual Heritage Day celebrations
By Lisa Goudy
Brick used in the boilers of the Corvette warships in the Second World War came from a plant about an hour's drive from Moose
Jaw.
"It was used in the fireboxes of the locomotive that brought the settlers out west. The face brick that was made here was
used in another national historic city, the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City," said Hilda Maier, executive director of the
Claybank Brick Historical Site.
"Some of the brick that was produced here was used in the launch pads at Cape Canaveral for the moon shots in the '70s. So
this little brick plant in the middle nowhere has got connections to very many worldly things."
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