Item is a photograph of the view of the steel plant from Crawley's Creek in Westmount, with boats docked.
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.
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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
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
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
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
Item is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing rails being loaded into the Mackie cooling tanks.
Abbass, John
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
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
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
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, JohnItem 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.
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
Item is a panoramic photograph of Sydney taken from Hardwood Hill.
Dodge, H. O.
Item is a panoramic photograph of the Sydney Steel Plant taken from Muggah's Creek.
Dodge, H. O.
Item is a photograph of transport trucks for the Sydney steel plant.
Sydney Steel CorporationItem is a photograph of the Sydney Steel Plant's blast furnace set against the night sky.
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
Item is a photograph of the blast furance at Dominion Iron and Steel Co.
Item is a photograph of the coke ovens at the Steel Plant in Sydney; the coal is being shipped to the coke ovens.
Item is a photograph of coal being shipped to coke ovens at the Sydney Steel Plant.
Item is a photograph of the mechanical department, machine shop, foundry and carpenter shop at the Dominion Iron and Steel Co.
Item is a photograph of the Sydney Steel Plant shortly after it was built.
Item is a photograph of the construction of a large building for the Dominion Iron and Steel Company - possibly the open hearth building.
Items are two coloured postcards depicting the Blast Furnace of the Sydney Steel Plant.
Item is a photograph of construction at the Dominion Iron and Steel Co.
Item is a photograph of coke being pushed from ovens at the DISCO plant in Sydney, Cape Breton.
Item is a photograph of the blast furnace and boiler room and the Dominion Iron and Steel Co. in Sydney, Cape Breton.
Item is a photograph of the Dominion Iron and Steel Co. loader and pump house in Sydney Harbour.
Item is a photograph of the interior of the electric power house of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company.
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.
Item is a photograph of the blast furnace as well as an ore stockpile.
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.
Item is a photograph of the Sydney Steel Plant officials, taken at the blast furnace.
Item is a photograph of a view of the Sydney Steel Plant from Westmount Road, with a car in the foreground.
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.
Item is a photograph of the Steelworkers of America Local 1064 float in the Sydney Centennial Celebrations.
Item is a photograph of H.J. Kelley, the general manager of Dominion Iron and Steel Company.
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.
Item is a photograph of the Labor (Steel) Union #1064.
Item is a photograph of dignitaries from Montreal at the Sydney Railway Station meeting officials from the Dominion Iron and Steel Company.
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.
Item is a photograph of the Dominion Steel and Coal Company's Emergency Hospital Staff.
Item is a photograph of a view of the Steel Plant during construction and early operations.
Item is a photograph of a view of the Steel Plant during construction and early operations.
Item is a photograph of a view of the Steel Plant during construction and early operations.
Item is a photograph of a view of the Steel Plant during construction and early operations.