Steel Manufacturers at the Margin in Nova Scotia
fnwood At the end of the 1890s the Canadian economy began to expand and diversify at an unprecdented rate [$4, p. 55]. Prominent among the changes was an enormous expansion of iron and steel output [19]. The largest single contribution to Canada's iron and steel "takeoff " came from a...
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| Summary: | fnwood At the end of the 1890s the Canadian economy began to expand and diversify at an unprecdented rate [$4, p. 55]. Prominent among the changes was an enormous expansion of iron and steel output [19]. The largest single contribution to Canada's iron and steel "takeoff " came from a 1,000-ton-per-day plant at Sydney, Nova Scotia. This plant relied hea•41y u•on ore from a mine located on Bell Island, Newfoundland. Because of its mec•ocre quality, the ore lay idle until technological change expanded the range of workable resources at the very end of the nineteenth century. Although technical progress brought steel manufacture with Newfoundland ore inside the margin of profitability, the Sydney steel plant continued to be handicapped by the poor quality of its resource base. Iron was known to be present on Bell Island at least as early as the 1570s, during which decade ore samples were sent to England [29]. During the early 1600s detailed plans were made to mine and smelt the |
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