P7122

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ID Number

P7122

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; there is a set of railroad tracks on the left side, with three wagons being pulled toward the camera; a flat section sits to the left of the tracks and a dirt and rock embankment on the right; there is one man standing at the bottom of the bank and two on top of the ridge; building material and hoisting machinery are visible in the background of the photograph; printed in the bottom left corner of the photo is: "Canadian Steel Corporation Ltd. Coal Dock Construction. Top of Spoil Bank, looking east with Slide of May 28-31, 1918 in the background. 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

Building materials / Matériaux de construction

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

Coal / Charbon

Hoisting machinery / Grues

Men / Hommes

Ojibway (Ont.)

Piers & wharves / Appontements et quais

Progress photographs / Photographies Progress

Railroad tracks / Voie ferrée

Steel industry / Industrie sidérurgique