MADE IN HAMILTON
20TH CENTURY
INDUSTRIAL TRAIL

SITE 30
CANADA STEEL COMPANY, 1910
SLATER STEEL INC.

The Canada Steel Company was founded in 1910 by backers in Hamilton, Toronto and Montreal. Production began on this Sherman Avenue site the next year. A few years later, it changed its name to the Burlington Steel Company. This was to avoid confusion with its larger steel-producing neighbour at the foot of Sherman Avenue. Workers at this plant rolled used railway rails into reinforcing steel and bars of other sizes and shapes for the construction industry.

The N. Slater Company was founded in 1906. It was located near the corner of Dundurn and King Streets. This company manufactured pole line equipment for electric power transmission and hardware metal stampings and forgings. In 1961 it purchased the Burlington Steel Company. Slater Steel Industries consolidated all its Hamilton operations on the Sherman Avenue site by the late 1980s.

This modern mini-mill now operates as Slater Steel's Hamilton Specialty Bar Division, producers of Specialty Bar Quality (SBQ) steel bars. The approximately 500 workers at this plant have been organized as a local of the United Steelworkers of America since 1952.

Workers at this plant are organized as United Steelworkers of America Local 4752.