Canadian Steel Foundries

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Canadian Steel Foundries (founded 1910) was a Canadian metallurgy company which once had works in Montreal, Gatineau and Welland.

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History

Through Arthur James Nesbitt, £410,000 of bonds were floated on the London market in March 1911 to finance operations. [1] One of the major investors was Rudyard Kipling. [2]

In 1935, Canadian Steel Foundries was amalgamated to Canadian Car and Foundry, [3] which in turn was acquired by A.V. Roe Canada (part of the Hawker Siddeley Group) in 1955. In 1956 A.V. Roe spun out the foundries division as a distinct but wholly owned subsidiary under the revived name Canadian Steel Foundries. [4] In 1962 Hawker Siddeley Canada liquidated A.V. Roe and took over Canadian Steel Foundries.

Montreal works

The Montreal workshops, established in the borough of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in 1912, [5] were once among the largest steelworks in North America. [6]

Closing

The Montreal works were closed in 2004 and in 2014 the site was still awaiting decontamination and redevelopment. [7] In 2005 the city of Montreal announced that steps would be taken to preserve the historical memory of the works, with documents, photographs, videos, and technical plans deposited with the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, and ten casting molds of various sizes transferred to the Centre d'histoire de Montréal. [8]

In 2013 plans were announced to improve access to the Port of Montreal by extending De L'Assomption Boulevard through the former Canadian Steel Foundries site. [9] [10]

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References

  1. Gregory P. Marchildon, "Hands across the Water: Canadian Industrial Financiers in the City of London, 1905-20", in Canadian Multinationals and International Finance, edited by Gregory P. Marchildon and Duncan McDowall (London, 1992), p. 75.
  2. Andrew Lycett, Rudyard Kipling (Hachette, 2015), p. 564.
  3. Register of Defunct Companies (Basingstoke, 1990), p. 101.
  4. Palmiro Campagna, Requiem for a Giant: A.V. Roe Canada and the Avro Arrow (Toronto, 2003), p. 62.
  5. Frédérick T. Bastarache-Ouellette, Montréal, l’industrielle : Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Archived 2016-11-03 at the Wayback Machine , The Prince Arthur Herald , 9 February 2012. Accessed 1 November 2016.
  6. United States International Trade Commission, Competitive assessment of the U.S. foundry industry, September 1984, part VIII, p. 18.
  7. Steve Caron, Les coûts de décontamination : un frein au développement économique, Métro 4 February 2014. Accessed 25 October 2016.
  8. Office of the Mayor of Montreal, La Ville de Montréal préserve la mémoire historique de la Canadian Steel Foundries, communiqué of 17 March 2005. Accessed 1 November 2016.
  9. Consensus en faveur du prolongement du boulevard de l’Assomption, Métro 10 May 2013. Accessed 25 October 2016.
  10. Le boulevard de l'Assomption sera prolongé jusqu'au port de Montréal, Ici Radio-Canada, 10 May 2013. Accessed 25 October 2016.