From the Beginning -- Stelco R&D

If you wish, a draft copy of my memories of the formation and advancement of the Stelco R&D Department can be downloaded from the link below.

Preface

In a sense this is a draft memoir; it’s unfinished. However, I decided to release it before I go too far down the road to senility, which my grandmothers did when they were in their 80s. I’m 82.

At the Feb 2013 breakfast meeting of R&D Retirees, Rick Grigg asked me where the file on my memories of the early years at Stelco is. I had posted a couple of Chapters about five years ago, but later deleted the pdf file. Now my health has improved (fractured lumbar is slowly mending) and I can again write, adding more memories to my initial effort.

So far, what I have been able to put on paper only covers the period from 1954 to about 1978. However, some of the narrative creeps well into the 80s. But, much of what happened behind the scenes, e.g., at Stelco Head Office, is not covered. ....

–Jock, Feb 2013.
 

Click to download:From the beginning

Please email me at jock.mckay@gmail.com with error and omissions. The memoir is still just a work-in-progess.
Cheers!