This series consists of publications and is divided into two major categories:
- publications produced by Stelco and its employees;
- publications produced by others and used by employees as reference material.
First publications produced by The Steel Company of Canada were related to safety rules and regulations for its employees during the 1910 decade. From 1920s, the company realized the importance of communication in its day-to-day dealings with people: shareholders, management people, employees and customers. From that period, the company began to publish an in-house magazine entitled "Stelco News" with the purpose of communicating messages to employees. Like other companies in the 1930s, Stelco entered a new era of communication. It became a complex organization, with decentralized operations with geographical divisions, the company's plants need to be interrelated. A monthly in-house magazine represented an opportunity to keep employees connected, share knowledge about things relevant to their jobs in order to increase effectiveness. To this effect, The Steel Company of Canada began in 1936 to publish its internal magazine "Stelco Flashes". Staff were asked to become voluntary reporters in collecting and compiling a multitude of information from their departments and plants, with the objective of communicating knowledge, new developments and achievements. By using this medium along with photographs, managers sent periodic messages to employees. They communicated company programs, goals and vision. In 1964, after 28 years of its existence, Stelco Falshes adopted a new visual format and became a true journal published in both English and French languages. Experts from plants wrote articles describing progress of work and their new findings. Local news, conferences, employee's successes, awards, recognitions, Christmas parties, sports, weddings, birthdays and deaths were illustrated and described. This series contains almost all editions of Stelco Flashes from 1936 to 1980. This type of record could provide researchers the possibility to study the evolution of the company's corporate culture and mission.
In 1957, the company produced another important in-house publication dedicated to managers entitled "Stelco Management Bulletin". This series contains all bulletins from 1957 to 1977. It was used as a supplementary medium for providing to all managers with more factual information about their large organization in which they are dispersed widely both geographically and functionally. Edited in a simple 4-page format, the bulletin was a tool for unifying management thinking and to keep managers informed on policy decisions.
This series contains other publications produced by Stelco from 1960s to 1988 to reach the national and international market. They were dedicated to customers, scientists, architects and many other clients in Canada and abroad. Edited by professional photographers, designers and written by experts, many won national and international scientific prizes. Among these are: "Stelco Scope", "Stelco Trend", "Stelco Today", "Steel in Homes" and "Fastener Facts". They are available in this series but they are not complete. Accompanied with this documentation are manuals and books describing standards and procedures prepared and published by Stelco. Stelco became "chef de fil" in the implementation of international standards in the steel industry.
The series also comprises published articles, reports, speeches written by Stelco employees and past presidents.
Publications written by other people are described in this series. Stelco's employees used these for research and study. These specialized publications document the steelmaking process and the history of the steel industry.
Biographies, obituaries of managers and newspaper clippings related to Stelco's activities from 1917 to 1975 are available.
