Blast Furnace Crew
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Title
Blast Furnace Crew
Description
- Both Black & white workers are present in this photo, which some could say means that they got along enough to take a photo all together or knowing that the higher-ups at DISCO were using their black workers to try and recruit more Black workers for work. This could've been a tactic to get more Black workers to come by posing photo ops that made it look like white and Black workers got along, making it look like a great place for Black people to work.
- This is also during the years (1912) when the majority of Black workers at DISCO were from the West Indies.
- This is also during the years (1912) when the majority of Black workers at DISCO were from the West Indies.
Creator
Kelly and Dodge
Source
Beaton, Elizabeth. “An African-American Community in Cape Breton, 1901-1904,” Acadiensis 24, no. 2 (April 1995): 65-97.
Publisher
Beaton Institute Archives
Date
ca. 1912
Rights
Kelly and Dodge
Files
Citation
Kelly and Dodge , “Blast Furnace Crew,” Black Canadian History Exhibit, accessed January 21, 2026, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/mathieu-black-canadian-history-exhibit/items/show/41.