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Crawley's Creek, Westmount
82-174-6874 · Item · ca. 1905

Item is a photograph of the view of the steel plant from Crawley's Creek in Westmount, with boats docked.

Heavy Rolls Mills, SYSCO
90-1051-20483 · Item · ca. 1970

Item is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing an ingot being lowered by crane into a soaking pit in the blooming mill. Ingots were "soaked" with heat in the pits until they reached a uniform temperature inside and out.

Nova Scotia Information Service
Heavy Rolls Mills, DOSCO
90-218-19650 · Item · 1963

Item is a photograph of heavy rolls mills, showing the stockyard area with a crane lifting a sling of inch and three quarter billets. Approximately 30 feet long and weighing about 300 pounds each, billets were stored here along with blooms and ingots.

Abbass, John
Heavy Rolls Mills, DOSCO
90-219-19651 · Item · 1963

Item is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills, showing the stockyard where billets, ingots, and blooms were stored. A CN car stands ready to transport rails, and other steel products could be moved by company rail cars down to the docks for shipping.

Abbass, John
Heavy Rolls Mills, DOSCO
90-220-19652 · Item · 1963

Item is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills, showing the stockyard area were billets, ingots, and blooms were stored. Here, the crane is lifting a sling of billets. Figure unidentified.

Abbass, John
Heavy Rolls Mills, DOSCO
90-301-19733 · Item · 1964

Item is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing the blooming mill pulpit. Manipulator, left, is Frank Irden, with roller George Wainwright, right. The roller rolls the bloom down to section size; the manipulator operates the equipment that turns the bloom.

Abbass, John
Heavy Rolls Mills, DOSCO
90-311-19743 · Item · 1956

Item is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing rails being loaded into the Mackie cooling tanks.

Abbass, John
Heavy Rolls Mills, DOSCO
90-317-19749 · Item · ca. 1960

Item is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing a group of visitors in the blooming mill pulpit; main rolls are beneath pulpit.

Abbass, John
Heavy Rolls Mills, DOSCO
90-331-19763 · Item · 1964

Item is a photograph of heavy rolls mills operations, showing a bloom coming through the main rolls at the blooming mill, heading south toward the big shears where it will be cropped before it goes to the rail mill.

Abbass, John
Heavy Rolls Mills, DOSCO
90-371-19803 · Item · 1965

Item is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing a mound of tie plates in the tie plate mill. Tie plates are the metal pieces placed under a rail when it's laid on a wooden tie.

Abbass, John
Heavy Rolls Mills, DOSCO
90-372-19804 · Item · 1965

Item is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing an unidentified inspector gauging a tie plate to determine if the holes are correctly spaced. Different sections have various spacings for their spike holes.

Abbass, John
Heavy Rolls Mills, DOSCO
90-373-19805 · Item · 1965

Item is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing the tie plate mill, with workers pushing a solid piece of steel through a machine that stamped plated out. This required tremendous manual labour on the part of the employees.

Heavy Rolls Mills, DOSCO
90-446-19878 · Item · 1963

Item is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills, showing an ingot carried by "buggy" approaching the main rolls in the blooming mill. Ingot is glowing with heat and has just been removed from the soaking pits.

Abbass, John
Sydney (south end)
91-561-22522 · Item · [ca. 1912]

Item is a panoramic photograph of Sydney taken from Hardwood Hill.

Dodge, H. O.
Sydney Steel Plant
91-563-22524 · Item · [ca. 1912]

Item is a panoramic photograph of the Sydney Steel Plant taken from Muggah's Creek.

Dodge, H. O.
Transport Trucks Lined Up
94-592-25107 · Item · c.1960s

Item is a photograph of transport trucks for the Sydney steel plant.

Sydney Steel Corporation
CA BI 76-79 · Item · 1950

Item is a photograph of the Steel Union Executive Officers 1064.

Back row: Walter Codiac, Ben O'Neil, E.P. Pledge, Martin Merner.
Front row: James Nicholson (#5 Dist. Director), M.E. Corbett (President), Dan MacKay (Vice President).

CA BI 76-80 · Item · 1954

Item is a photograph of the Steel Union 1064 Executive Officers.

Back row: Martin Merner, E.P. Pledge, Charles Wall, and Bill Mackinnon.
Front row: Clarence MacInnis, Dan MacKay, Ben O'Neil (president), James Nicholson (Director District 5).

CA BI 76-81 · Item · 1956

Item is a photograph of the Local 1064 Executive Officers.

Back row: Donald Steele, William Reid, Lawrence MacIsaac.
Front row: Charles Wall, Martin Merner, Dan MacKay, Clarance MacInnes.

Steel Industry Panel
CA BI 76-82 · Item · 1957 - 1958

Item is a photograph of the following individuals seated at a table: Clifford Murray (Works Manager DOSCO), Martin Merner, Joe Legge (Asst. Safety Superintendent DOSCO) and an unknown man. The occasion was, possibly, a panel discussion on industrial safety.

CA BI 76-83 · Item · ca. 1964

Item is a photograph of Steel Union Executive Officers, Local 1064. The occasion is unknown.

From left to right: Jack Coleman, Charles Crowe, George MacNeil, Art MacGillivray, Martin Merner.

Dominon Iron and Steel
CA BI 77-13-140 · Item · April 10, 1901

Item is a photograph of the blast furance at Dominion Iron and Steel Co.

Dominion Coal Co.
CA BI 77-14-141 · Item · ca. 1900

Item is a photograph of the coke ovens at the Steel Plant in Sydney; the coal is being shipped to the coke ovens.

Coal and Coke
CA BI 77-15-142 · Item · ca. 1900

Item is a photograph of coal being shipped to coke ovens at the Sydney Steel Plant.

Dominion Iron and Steel
CA BI 77-16-143 · Item · April 19, 1901

Item is a photograph of the mechanical department, machine shop, foundry and carpenter shop at the Dominion Iron and Steel Co.

Steel Plant, Sydney
CA BI 77-38-167 · Item · ca. 1901

Item is a photograph of the Sydney Steel Plant shortly after it was built.

CA BI 77-48-182 · Item · 1901

Item is a photograph of the construction of a large building for the Dominion Iron and Steel Company - possibly the open hearth building.

Steel Plant Blast Furnace
CA BI 77-49-183 · Item · ca. 1920

Items are two coloured postcards depicting the Blast Furnace of the Sydney Steel Plant.

Iron and Steel Co., Sydney
CA BI 77-52-186 · Item · 1900

Item is a photograph of coke being pushed from ovens at the DISCO plant in Sydney, Cape Breton.

Blast Furnace Boiler Room
CA BI 77-53-187 · Item · 1900

Item is a photograph of the blast furnace and boiler room and the Dominion Iron and Steel Co. in Sydney, Cape Breton.

Electrical Power House
CA BI 77-56-190 · Item · 1900

Item is a photograph of the interior of the electric power house of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company.

Piers - Coal and Steel Co.
CA BI 77-56-191 · Item · 1900

Item is a photograph of the Steel Co. cars, coal piers, buckle, loaders, Coal Co. cars and four vessels loading at the coal piers. The private houses were then being used as offices.

Dominion Iron and Steel Co.
CA BI 77-57-191 · Item · 1900

Item is a photograph of the blast furnace as well as an ore stockpile.

CA BI 77-620-754 · Item · ca. 1905

Item is a photograph of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company steel plant taken from Sydney Harbour a few years after it was built. The site of the plant is now a recreational community space called Open Hearth Park.

CA BI 77-640-774 · Item · ca. 1911

Item is a photograph of the Sydney Steel Plant officials, taken at the blast furnace.

Sydney Steel Plant
CA BI 77-66-200 · Item · ca. 1945

Item is a photograph of a view of the Sydney Steel Plant from Westmount Road, with a car in the foreground.

CA BI 77-69-203 · Item · ca. 1910

Item is a photograph of the crew of the Sydney coal washing plant. There are approximately one hundred men ranging in age from about thirteen to fifty; some of the men are sitting and standing on a Sydney and Louisbourg (S&L) railcar. The steel plant can be seen in the background.

H.J. Kelley
CA BI 77-823-957 · Item · ca. 1940

Item is a photograph of H.J. Kelley, the general manager of Dominion Iron and Steel Company.

Sydney Steel Union Executive
CA BI 77-845-979 · Item · ca. 1950

Item is a photograph of the executive of the Sydney Steel Union on the steps of an unidentified building. The eleven men are named in the accompanying material.

Labor (Steel) Union
CA BI 77-883-1017 · Item · 1955

Item is a photograph of the Labor (Steel) Union #1064.

CA BI 77-920-1054 · Item · ca. 1920

Item is a photograph of dignities visiting from Montreal with officials from the Dominion Iron and Steel Company in front of the Steel Plant in Sydney.

Dominion Iron and Steel Co.
CA BI 79-964-3944 · Item · ca. 1905

Item is a photograph of a view of the Steel Plant during construction and early operations.

Dominion Iron and Steel Co.
CA BI 79-965-3945 · Item · ca. 1905

Item is a photograph of a view of the Steel Plant during construction and early operations.

Dominion Iron and Steel Co.
CA BI 79-966-3946 · Item · ca. 1905

Item is a photograph of a view of the Steel Plant during construction and early operations.

Dominion Iron and Steel Co.
CA BI 79-968-3948 · Item · ca. 1905

Item is a photograph of a view of the Steel Plant during construction and early operations.