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Dicerni, Andrew - Interview

Item number (ISN):

172156

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1970-12-22

Item number (ISN):

172156

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

DOMINION BRIDGE COMPANY / COMPAGNIE DOMINION BRIDGE

Accession:

1984-0443

Media:

Sound

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1970-12-22

Production company:

Dominion Bridge Company

Description:

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Interview of Andrew Dicerni, former worker at the boiler shop at the Dominion Bridge Company in Montreal, who talks about his career at Dominion Bridge. In this first of two interviews, Dicerni recalls his first job with the company in 1917 when he was hired on as a messenger boy by saying he was 16 years old when he was actually only 11. In spite of the long working day and difficult working conditions, Decerni remembers with pleasure the spirited competition between the various company shops as each shop fielded its own hockey, baseball and bowling teams. The massive lay offs during the depression years and the production of munitions and shipbuilding during World War II are recalled by Dicerni. Some of the projects Decerni worked on are: the fabrication of marine boilers for the Ernest P. Lapointe ice breaker in 1939; the building of the Jacques Cartier Bridge in Montreal in 1929 and the construction of barges for France for use in Vietnam in 1949. Comments on the "esprit de corps" between management and employees and the company loyalty and pride in workmanship displayed by the employees round out the interview.

Language:

English

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

163514

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1984-0443/132
1984-0443/133
1984-0443/134

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

361913

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2001-07-0022

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

65:09

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1001076

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2001-07-0022

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1984-0443/132
1984-0443/133
1984-0443/134
1984-0443/135
1984-0443/136
1984-0443/137
1984-0443/138
1984-0443/139
1984-0443/140
1984-0443/141

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1136132

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

172156-1984-0443-132.WAV
172156-1984-0443-133.WAV
172156-1984-0443-134.WAV

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

45:57

Made from:

1984-0443/132
1984-0443/133
1984-0443/134

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2001-07-0022

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 16476

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of AMCA : with permission of interviewees during their lifetimesThe copyright on this material was originally held by Dominion Bridge, a company that moved to the States and became AMCA and then United Dominion. Apparently United Dominion sold its Dominion Bridge division to a Canadian company, in 1993.According to the Gazette of 13 November 1998, Dominion Bridge of Lachine became part of ADF Heavy Industries, part of the Group ADF Inc. which is owned by the Au Dragon Forgè (Paschini family) of Terrebonne, Quebec.ADF was then acquired by TIL Cintreurs de Tubes International Ltee.Copyright owner: TIL Cintreurs de Tubes International Ltee.

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