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Bridgewater, NS
Mover: Lawrence Veinotte Enterprises

Based on the South Shore, Lawrence Veinotte Enterprises offers a range of building services, including moving buildings. In 2009, they worked with the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) in Bridgewater and a private citizen to move a special home. 

The building had been used by NSCC students over several years to practice various building skills such as carpentry, plumbing and electrical work. Once the building could no longer be used as a teaching aid it was sold by NSCC, rather than demolishing it. The sale was conditional on the new owner moving the building off the NSCC campus.

Lawrence Veinotte Enterprises was contracted to conduct the move. The building was too high and wide for transportation on Nova Scotia roads so Lawrence Veinotte Enterprises dismantled the building into two sections for transporting using boom trucks and tractor trailers. The sections were reconnected at the new owner’s site and now the building is now a small home on a quiet country lake in the Hemford area.

Shelagh Keddy-Veinotte of Lawrence Veinotte Enterprises sums up the project: “Why waste when you can relocate!”