P7165

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ID Number

P7165

Item Name

Image

Title

Canadian Steel Corporation Dredging Operations / Opérations de dragage de la société canadienne d'acier

Title (Fre)

Opérations de dragage de la société canadienne d'acier

Date

1919/10/14

Description

Black and white photograph of the Dock construction for the Canadian Steel Corporation at Ojibway; the photo is a view east from the West end unloader wall showing the Great Lakes Dredging Company dredging in the slip; typed on a slip of paper glued to the bottom left corner is: "Canadian Steel Corporation, Limited. Dock Construction. View East from West End Unloader Wall showing Dredging in Slip at Station 14120W. Oct. 14, 1919."

History

The Canadian Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Company, purchased an 1800 acre site about 1917 and an elaborate town was planned to house workers at the plant. Roads were built and fire hydrants installed before the town itself was started and a four-lane divided highway separated the plant site from the town and connected it to Windsor, four kilometres away. The recession of the 1920s led the company to reassess the Canadian plant. Some mills were erected but the residential areas were never started. The depression of the 1930s finally killed the project, although the buildings which had been erected were used for war work in the 1940s. The town, which had been incorporated in 1913, remained a municipality although its population never exceded 100. It was annexed by Windsor in 1966, by which time natural regeneration had created a forest on the town site. Part of the site is now Windsor's nature park and the land planned for the Carnegie steel plant was developed for industry and is now known as the Morton Industrial Park. The residential area is now used by a harness racing complex, a new subdivision and the nature park.

Place made

Canada - Ontario - Ojibway

Collection Name

Museum Windsor

Subjects

Building materials / Matériaux de construction

Canadian Steel Corporation Ltd. / Société canadienne de l'acier Canadian Steel ltd.

Dredges / Dragues

Dredging / Draguer

Great Lakes Dredging Co. Ltd. / Compagnie de dragage Great Lakes Draguer

Hoisting machinery / Grues

Men / Hommes

Ojibway (Ont.)

Piers & wharves / Appontements et quais

Progress photographs / Photographies Progress

Railroad tracks / Voie ferrée

Scaffolding / Échafaudage

Tugboats / Remorqueurs

Water / Eau