Archive for November 28th, 2009
Canada Corner
Raising Steel
Danny Doyle grew up in the Brooklyn, N.Y., neighbourhood of Bay Ridge, the sixth of eight children of Newfoundland-born ironworker Fred Doyle. His father’s friends were mostly ironworkers and most were former Newfoundlanders who left home for New York in the middle of the last century. They said goodbye to a place of high unemployment and dismal prospects to risk life and limb raising the steel columns and beams that formed the frames of some of the New York’s most famous skyscrapers.
These men earned good money, lived in the same sections of Brooklyn and frequently spent their off-hours together. “My [...]






