%0 Journal Article
%T Roots, Region, and Resistance: Facing Industrial Ruin in Sydney, Cape Breton, during Canada¡¯s Centennial Year
%A Parnaby
%A Andrew
%J -
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.1353/aca.2019.0001
%X On 13 October 1967 ¨C ¡°Black Friday¡± ¨C the owners of the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO) announced the imminent closure of the company¡¯s Sydney steel works. Yet after a massive community demonstration dubbed the ¡°Parade of Concern,¡± the provincial government, with significant federal assistance, purchased the plant from DOSCO and turned it into a provincial Crown corporation. This state-centred response to deindustrialization demonstrates the economic, political, and cultural importance of ¡°place¡± in adverting the collapse of heavy industry, a response that was utterly absent in the American context and used only sparingly in the Canadian one
%U https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/acadiensis/2019-v48-n1-acadiensis04770/1062176ar/