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DOMINION BRIDGE COMPANY / COMPAGNIE DOMINION BRIDGE

1984-0443

Enregistrement sonore

2 of 2

1970-12-07

Dominion Bridge Company

Interview of M. Norman Reid, retired comptroller of the Dominion Bridge Company who discusses the financial side of the company. Reid recounts that the company has ledgers, cashbooks and contracts going back to 1882 - all meticulously hand-written until accounting machines were introduced in 1939. Smith recalls that "4 or 5 truckloads" of the company's financial records were destroyed according to provincial requirements. Also discussed was the system of paying workers in cash every Friday when the wives would wait at the plant gates "before the men hit the saloons". Other topics include the uniqueness of the company issuing only "capital stock", the financial problems of the company during the Depression, and unprofitable projects such as Place Ville Marie in Montreal.

English

Libre

A1 2001-07-0013

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.