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1923 Steel Srike
CA BI 89-504-18699 · Item · 1923

Item is a photograph of the members of the Royal 22 Regiment patrolling the plant grounds during the Steel Strike of 1923.

1923 Steel Strike
CA BI 89-505-18700 · Item · 1923

Item is a photograph of army troops patrolling the steel plant during the Steel Strike of 1923.

CA BI T-2034 · Item · 1982
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Biographical Sketch
Genealogy of the Loch Lomond MacDonald'
Farming in the early days
Dominion Coal Company cut lumber at Silver Mine
Describes the operation, log bridge built across the river
The log drive to the sawmill...
Describes the process of hauling logs to the river
Logs provided lumber for company houses
Started school at age of 10
His first teacher, Jessie Morrison
Far from school, boarded with his aunt...
Describes the school, how it was heated, the discipline
Left school after grade 5
Started working at the Steel Plant, 1926
During Depression, little work - plant worked 2 days a week
Women were hired during the War (WW II)
Work on the farm - what the women did - the day's routine

Food - fish, how it was preserved
Making farm implement
Hay making in the early days
Dairy proucts - keeping milk cold
The arrival of cream separators, their care
His father was postmaster, 1912
Carried mail to Salmon River, $1 a trip
Discusses operation of the post office & mail route
First post office at Loch Lomond
News papers - Sydney (N.S.) Weekly Post, Family Herald
Wages at the Steel Plants after the War
Describes work at the Plant
United Steel Workers Union didn't get started until after 1941
The Plant Council...
Life on the farm - kerosene lamps, wood stoves...
Water from the well - never frozen because of its depth
When the mine started, the well went dry
No social activities in his youth
Church history - lay preachers in the earliest times
Present church built in 1910
United Church at Loch Lomond opened 1929
The first ministers...
Dissension and division over the union
Choir made up of older people
Prayer meetings held in school once a week
Gaelic the only language spoken at home; few could repeat it
His thoughts on Gaelic Today
He and all his brothers & sisters, born at home, delivered by a midwife, Peggy Currie
Never felt that his likfe lacked anything
Discusses food on the farm; potatoes & turnip the only vegetables
Implements manufactured in the forge
Four blacksmiths in the area, he gives their names; none today
Names 3 merchants that were in the area at the time
Pioneer craftes, processing wool
Describes his trip to North Uist, his search for information on Malcolm "The Carpnter"
Describes the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, his impression
Describes a Gaelic service he attended
Sunday laws stricty bserved there
Some more genealogy
His mother's weaving - she was self taught
Mary MacLean whom he visited in Scotland
Reads in Gaelic

Macdonald, Wilma J.
Annie MacLean - Gaelic Songs
CA BI T-122 · Item · 1969
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item consists of an audio recording of Annie (Mrs. J.P) MacLean of Rear Christmas Island, (N.S) singing a number of Gaelic songs. Recorded by Sister Margaret Beaton and Hilda Day.

Mrs. J.P. MacLean, Christmas Island (Rear):

"Mise tha fo Mhulad air Tulaich gun Uaill" Song about a difficult winter composed by Catriona MacNeil (Catrìona Iain Ruaidh).

"Why did she compose this song?" She had to do so many difficult tasks in the winter.

Song about finding a rich man to marry; composed by Catherine MacNeil (Catrìona Iain Ruaidh).

Stories about Catrìona Bean Ruaidh. She lived further inland than Jack Pheadair (informant's husband)'s uncle, Ruairidh Chaluim Ghobha MacLean. Ruairidh lived at the foot of Eskasoni Mountain where Rory S. MacNeil lives.

Forerunner portending the death of the bard.

Bard's father was married to Christie Alasdair Chaluim Ghobha "The Big Widow".

Song about working at the the Steel plant in North Sydney by Archie "Larry" Gillis, originally from Rear Beaver Cove.

Day, Hilda
Blast Furnace
CA BI 94-195-24710 · Item · 1917-11-01 - 1918-11-01

Item is a photograph of the blast furnace at the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO).

Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO)
Blast Furnace - DISCO
CA BI 94-205-24720 · Item · 1901

Item is a photograph of a section of the steel plant with the wharf and ice clampers in the foreground.

Dominion Iron and Steel Company Ltd. (DISCO)
Blast Furnace Button
CA BI 94-196-24711 · Item · 1917-11-01 - 1918-11-01

Item is a photograph of the blast furnace button at the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO).

Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO)
Blast Furnace Crew
CA BI 91-602-22563 · Item · ca. 1912

Item is a photograph of the crew stopping for a picture as they are manning one of the blast furnaces in the Sydney steel plant.

Kelly and Dodge
CA BI 94-198-24713 · Item · June 1921

Item is a photograph of the blast furnace valve and gas burner at the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO).

Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO)
CA BI 94-197-24712 · Item · 1917-11-01 - 1918-11-01

Item is a photograph of the blast furnace valve and gas burner at the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO).

Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO)
Brick Caging
CA BI 94-151-24666 · Item · 1920-06-10 - 1921-06-01

Item is a photograph of brick caging at the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO).

Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO)
Brick Piles
CA BI 94-168-24683 · Item · 1920-06-01 - 1921-06-01

Item is a photograph of brick piles at the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO).

Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO)
Building Construction
CA BI 94-167-24682 · Item · 1920-06-01 - 1921-06-01

Item is a photograph of a building under construction at the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO).

Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO)
C. M. Anson
94-229-24744 · Item · c. 1960

Item is a photograph of (L to R) president C. M. Anson and his daughter Jody pulling a switch with an unidentified steel executive.

94-599-25114 · Item · c.1955

Item is a photograph of the string section of the Cape Breton Symphony Orchestra - Identified on the back of the photograph - taken at CJCB Television Studios of Sydney.

Raytel Photography
Cement Blocks
CA BI 94-169-24684 · Item · 1920-06-01 - 1921-06-01

Item is a photograph of cement blocks at the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO).

Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO)
Cement Slabs
CA BI 94-172-24687 · Item · 1920-06-01 - 1921-06-01

Item is a photograph of cement slabs at the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO).

Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO)
Cement Slabs
CA BI 94-173-24688 · Item · 1920-06-01 - 1921-06-01

Item is a photograph of cement slabs at the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO).

Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO)
Cement Slabs
CA BI 94-180-24695 · Item · 1920-06-01 - 1921-06-01

Item is a photograph of cement slabs at the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO).

Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO)
Cement Slabs
CA BI 94-181-24696 · Item · 1920-06-01 - 1921-06-01

Item is a photograph of the cement slabs at the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO).

Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO)
Cement Slabs
CA BI 94-183-24698 · Item · 1920-06-01 - 1921-06-01

Item is a photograph of cement slabs at the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO).

Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO)