P7097

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ID Number

P7097

Item Name

Image

Title

Canadian Steel Corporation Ore Dock Wall / Le mur du quai de chargement du fer de la société canadienne d'acier Canadian Steel

Title (Fre)

Le mur du quai de chargement du fer de la société canadienne d'acier Canadian Steel

Date

1918/01/22

Description

Black and white photograph of the Ore Dock Wall being built for the Canadian Steel Corporation in Ojibway; there is a long pile of dirt running along the left side of the photograph; a dog and the figure of a man (which has been shaded in) stand at the bottom of the dirt pile; the end of a log and wood bridge extends into the photograph from the bottom right corner; the bridge is spanning a trench with ice at the end; there is a crane at the end of the trench; notes regarding elevations and arrows are hand printed in the top left corner of the photograph and "Canadian Steel Corporation Ltd. Ore Dock Wall showing settlement of surface and upheaval in trench looking east from STA. 16190N - 14023W 1-22-18" is hand printed in the bottom left corner.

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.

Construction workers / Travailleur de construction

Dogs / Chiens

Elevations

Excavation

Hoisting machinery / Grues

Men / Hommes

Ojibway (Ont.)

Piers & wharves / Appontements et quais

Plans

Progress photographs / Photographies Progress