Engineering

In 1736, the French ironmasters introduced a technology into Canada which had been tried and tested for more than 200 years, and which had been widely adopted in Europe. It was the indirect ore reduction process, which first produced cast iron, followed by bar iron. This two-phase technology required the skills of founders and moulders at the blast furnace as well as a number of brawny forgemen in the forges.

• The indirect ore reduction process: the art of casting and the art of iron working