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The Tait House was built in 1911 by the family of R. Chesley Tait who were general merchants and potato exporters to South America and the West Indies.
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As in other Acadian communities, agriculture played a major role in the development of the town of Shédiac. In the early 1870s, the family-owned business, R. Chesley Tait Company, developed an industry that dominated the economy of Shédiac for many years. While on a business trip to Bermuda, Alexander J. Tait, one of the business partners, saw an opportunity to expand his commercial interests by developing the potato industry in his seaport town.
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On his return to Shédiac, he wasted no time in convincing local farmers to cultivate potatoes on a larger scale. During the first twenty years of the twentieth century, a hundred thousand barrels of potatoes were shipped from here by rail or by sea to foreign markets.
The Tait house has been operated as a Country Inn since 1980.
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