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ID Number: P7839
Item Name: image
Title: Work vessel 'Shuniah' - Canadian Steel Corporation Ltd. / Bateau de travail 'Shuniah' - Société canadienne de l'acier Canadian Steel ltée
Title (Fre): Bateau de travail 'Shuniah' - Société canadienne de l'acier Canadian Steel ltée
Date: ca 1919
Description: Another view, from shore, of the Great Lakes Dredging Co. construction steamer named the 'Shuniah'; the steamer appears to mount two cranes or shovels from its decks; 'Shuniah' is dredging within the slip at the riverfront adjacent to the Canadian Steel Corp. dock construction site, Ojibway (Ont.); progress nears completion on the rear unloader wall, running down the centre of the image; an onshore pile drivers is also visible left of centre; workers can be seen onshore, and another ship or tugboat is docked at the left edge of the image.
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 - Windsor
Collection Name: Museum Windsor