P7134

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ID Number

P7134

Item Name

Image

Title

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

Title (Fre)

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

Date

1918/10/09

Description

Black and white photograph of the Dock construction for the Canadian Steel Corporation at Ojibway; a set of railroad tracks runs vertically through the left side of the photograph; on the left side of the tracks there are piles of building materials lying on a steep bank; two or three rail wagons are on the tracks about halfway up the photo and several men are standing around the cars; the dock runs parallel to the tracks on the right, running vertically through the centre of the photo; cranes are visible at the far end of the dock; mounds of dirt and additional machinery make up the right side of the photograph.

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.

Hoisting machinery / Grues

Men / Hommes

Ojibway (Ont.)

Ore industry / Industrie du minerai

Piers & wharves / Appontements et quais

Progress photographs / Photographies Progress

Railroad tracks / Voie ferrée