Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Dominion Coal Company Limited
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- DOMCO
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1893 - 1910
History
Dominion Coal Company Ltd. was incorporated in 1893, four years after Henry Melville Whitney and Frederick Stark Pearson of Boston had formed the Whitney coal syndicate with Benjamin Franklin Pearson of the People's Heat and Light Company of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The group purchased one mine and obtained options on others south of Sydney on eastern Cape Breton Island. By 1893 they had acquired most of the existing bituminous coal mines in eastern Cape Breton, including Victoria. By 1912 DOMCO operated 16 collieries, which made up 40% of Canada's coal production. DOMCO and its sister company Dominion Iron and Steel Company (DISCO) eventually became subsidiaries of Dominion Steel Corporation, later the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation (also DOSCO), eventually lead to the formation of the federal Crown corporation Cape Breton Development Corporation (DEVCO) and the provincial Crown corporation Sydney Steel Corporation (SYSCO), which expropriated DOSCO's mines and steel mill in 1968.