P7098

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ID Number

P7098

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 Canadian Steel Corporation's construction of an ore dock in Ojibway; a wide trench, covered in ice, stretches vertically from the bottom centre of the photograph; a bridge made of wood and logs spans the trench close to the top of photograph; a crane and several buildings are visible in the background on the bank on the left; the right bank is high and the figure of a man, which has been shaded in black, stands halfway up; the roof of a building is visible behind the pile of dirt in the background on the right; hand printed in the bottom left corner is: "Canadian Steel Corporation Ltd. Ore Dock Wall showing upheaval in trench. Looking West from STA. 16171N - 13790W 1-22-18".

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.

Excavation

Hoisting machinery / Grues

Men / Hommes

Ojibway (Ont.)

Piers & wharves / Appontements et quais

Progress photographs / Photographies Progress

Roofs / Toits