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- Title
Roots, Region, and Resistance: Facing Industrial Ruin in Sydney, Cape Breton, during Canada's Centennial Year.
- Authors
PARNABY, ANDREW
- Abstract
On 13 October 1967 - "Black Friday" - the owners of the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO) announced the imminent closure of the company's Sydney steel works. Yet after a massive community demonstration dubbed the "Parade of Concern," the provincial government, with significant federal assistance, purchased the plant from DOSCO and turned it into a provincial Crown corporation. This state-centred response to deindustrialization demonstrates the economic, political, and cultural importance of "place" in adverting the collapse of heavy industry, a response that was utterly absent in the American context and used only sparingly in the Canadian one.
- Subjects
DOMINION Steel &; Coal Corp. Ltd.; STEEL industry; CULTURAL history; DEINDUSTRIALIZATION; PROVINCIAL governments
- Publication
Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region / Revue d'histoire de la région Atlantique, 2019, Vol 48, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0044-5851
- Publication type
Article