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Sunny Monday

Don:     My grand father Fader was the founder of Sunny Monday, which is now known as Javex. It was known as Javex up in Ontario at that time. But they bought the rights down here from him to turn it around. I imagine it was the same formula or close to the same formula and they bought him out. Now his Sunny Monday was all over Nova Scotia.

He had a good business the sale was a handshake and a cigarette, I told you the other day. And this was the way he worked though he did have some problems earlier the first factory burnt down. And he had to build another factory, which took quite a lump out of him. Now a lot of people say he had partners, he never did have partners…his partners were his workers, like Jim Longard, my step-father Mel Langille my mother, Noreen and her mother, Francis they were his partners. His legal advisor was Eric Murray, and he passed away he was a judge of the Supreme Court in the early forties. When he first started this got rid of it. And he built it right up, I think he sold it in nineteen fifty was when he finally sold it rid of it. He was making good money until he started going into the hole because of this fire.

I think a lot of the older people will remember the fire because one tank blew and it blew, and it all the gases towards Shad Bay. Which was not good. It was quite a thing.