Collection search - Polson, Dorothy - Interview
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Record information – Brief Polson, Dorothy - Interview
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1971Item number (ISN):87144Type of material:Sound recordingsFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:DOMINION BRIDGE COMPANY / COMPAGNIE DOMINION BRIDGEAccession:1984-0443Media:SoundPart:1 of 1Production date:1971Production company:Dominion Bridge CompanyDescription:Audio recording of an oral history interview of Dorothy Polson, longtime former secretary and accountant of the Dominion Bridge Company at Winnipeg. Polson recalls beginning with the company in 1920 as a 19-year-old file clerk and stenographer at $90 per month. Discussion of the expansion of the company's Central Division in the late 1930s with the purchase of the Manitoba Bridge Co., the Riverside Iron Works (Calgary) and the Standard Iron Works of Edmonton is followed by details of Polson's increased responsibilities which included the preparation of financial reports and sales contracts from all the branches. She explains how reports were sent to Headquarters in Montreal in a coded format then decoded. Other topics include: how the company was affected by the Depression of the 1930s and her memories of certain company executives such as Jack Stewart, George Campbell and S.W. Campbell. <15mn>Language:EnglishDetailed holdings information: -
Ordering and viewing options Conditions of access:OpenGENCAT identity number:MSS 16476Reproduction 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.You can order materials in advance to be ready for you when you visit. You will need a user card to do this.
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