P7119

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ID Number

P7119

Item Name

Image

Title

Canadian Steel Corporation Coal Dock Construction / La construction du quai à charbon de la société canadienne d'acier Canadian Steel

Title (Fre)

La construction du quai à charbon de la société canadienne d'acier Canadian Steel

Date

1918/06/08

Description

Black and white photograph of the Coal Dock construction for the Canadian Steel Corporation at Ojibway; the bottom right corner of the photo is a flat muddy section of land with logs and wooden planks strewn about; a large dirt bank rises to the left with a few flat ledges leading to the top; there is one man standing with his back to the camera, holding a tall measuring stick, on the first ledge from the bottom; two other men are standing on a higher ledge, facing the camera and leaning over some surveying equipment, and a fourth man is standing on the top of the bank; printed in the bottom left corner of the photo is: "Canadian Steel Corporation Ltd. Coal Dock Construction North Side Coal Dock Wall. A general view of Slide Area looking southwest from Sta. 16450N - 14400W 6-3-18".

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

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

Coal / Charbon

Excavation

Ojibway (Ont.)

Piers & wharves / Appontements et quais

Progress photographs / Photographies Progress

Steel industry / Industrie sidérurgique

Surveying / Arpentage