Steel at the Sault : : Francis H. Clergue, Sir James Dunn and the Algoma Steel Corporation, 1901-1956 / / Duncan McDowall.

Steel at the Sault focuses on the emergence of steelmaking at Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. As Canada's third-largest primary producer, Algoma Steel originated in the adventures of its two founders - the flamboyant American promoter F.H. Clergue and the 'last of the multimillionaires,' Si...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1988
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (457 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Iron and Steel Industry in Ontario: Troubled Beginnings to the 1890s
  • 2. Iron and Steel in 'New Ontario'
  • 3. Rails and Shells: Algoma Steel and the Precarious Rewards of National Prosperity 1905-19
  • 4. Frustrated Ambitions: Algoma Steel in the 1920s
  • 5. A New Brunswicker in the 'Financial Aristocracy' of Europe: Sir James Hamet Dunn 1900-30
  • 6. Cutting the Gordian Knot: Sir James Dunn and the Takeover of Algoma Steel 1930–5
  • 7. The Road to Recovery: Sir James Dunn and Algoma Steel 1935-9
  • 8. Algoma Steel and the Second World War: Steel in a Regulated Economy
  • 9. An Empire Realized: Dunn and Algoma Steel 1945–56
  • Conclusion
  • MAP AND DIAGRAMS
  • NOTE ON SOURCES
  • NOTES
  • INDEX