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DOMINION BRIDGE COMPANY / COMPAGNIE DOMINION BRIDGE

1984-0443

Enregistrement sonore

1 of 1

1970-12-22

Dominion Bridge Company

Interview of Andrew Dicerni, longtime worker at the Dominion Bridge Company in Montreal, who talks about his father Carlos Dicerni, an immigrant to Canada in 1890 and former employee of the Dominion Bridge Company. Andrew Decerni begins by recounting a brief family history of his father; his work building the Lachine Canal in the 1890s for 10¢ an hour; his work on the CPR line in Sault Saint Marie, Ontario; the family's hasty departure for San Francisco in 1900 in a futile search for gold; and the family's equally hasty return to Montreal in 1906 "because San Francisco was a big mess" after the earthquake. Carlos joined the Dominion Bridge Company loading coal from the canal barges to fire the plant furnaces and later making cement for the foundation of the company's first overhead crane until his retirement in 1920.

English

Libre

A1 2001-07-0022

MSS 16476

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.