Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company
Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company
Consists of operational records created by the NS Steel and Coal Company Ltd.'s New Glasgow and Sydney Mines offices. The most extensive section concerns the Old Sydney Collieries operations at Sydney Mines, containing letter books and correspondence files of the stores department (1905-1917), which detail the ordering and purchasing of supplies and equipment for the mines. In addition there are financial records such as cash books (1905-1913), general ledgers (1895-1915) and a very early workmen's book (1861-1864). Other records originate from the New Glasgow office and include general correspondence (1935-1941), corporate records such as printed annual reports and financial statements of NS Steel and Coal and its parent companies (BESCO and DOSCO), by-laws and articles of association, prospectuses and charters, and internal publications such as promotional booklets and agreements with labour unions. There are also a few files believed to have been created by former chairman Thomas Cantley, including two case files on the coal tariff issue (1912-1927) and a mine fire inquiry (1929), blueprints of mine sites in Sydney and schematic details of mining equipment used, and coal and steel production and sales figures (1898-1918). Finally there are later correspondence files and reports on mine performance and production at the Florence and Princess Collieries, 1953-1966.
1861-1966, predominant 1905-1930
7 meters of textual records and technical plans
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MG 3 volume 2315-2414
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