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ID Number

P7229

Item Name

Image

Title

Canadian Steel Corporation Main Drain / La canalisation principale de la société canadienne d'acier Canadian Steel

Title (Fre)

La canalisation principale de la société canadienne d'acier Canadian Steel

Date

1917/08/08

Description

Black and white photograph of the excavation for the main storm drain in the Canadian Steel Corporation's proposed town of Ojibway; the wooden hull for the drain is visible running vertically through the centre of the photograph; a steep dirt bank is on the left side of drain and a smaller bank is on the on the right; at the top of the left bank there is a crane and pulley machine with troughs running from the crane down to the drain hull; a second crane is visible on the far side of the embankment on the left; a third crane is visible on the right bank, along with piles of building materials; several men are standing in the hull and throughout the building site; trees are visible in the background; hand printed in the bottom left corner is: "Main Drain Looking North from 5th St. 8-8-17".

History

The Canadian Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Company, purchased an 1800 acre site around 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

5th St. / Rue 5e

Building materials / Matériaux de construction

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

City planning / Planification urbaine

Construction workers / Travailleur de construction

Excavation

Hoisting machinery / Grues

Men / Hommes

Ojibway (Ont.)

Progress photographs / Photographies Progress

Sewerage / Réseau d'égouts

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