Stelco

In 2004, Stelco has been having financial difficulties and has been under court ordered protection from its creditors, including the Deutsche Bank. Occaisionally, the honden may enshrine more than one kami, or a composite kami, mother and child. Jackson Square in downtown Hamilton, has been an office building for the company and others since the 1970s. This may be a rock, a statue or (most commonly in recent shrines) a mirror. Stelco Tower, associated with Lloyd D. At the heart of the honden is the goshintai (御神体, "honored god-body"), in which the kami is said to reside. In addition to the main Hilton Works, named after a company official, its operatons include Stelwire and the Nanticoke works in Nanticoke on Lake Erie. It usually resembles a small shrine building, complete with sloping roof, walls, and its own doors, which are usually kept closed except at religious festivals.

Several union drives at the plant were unsuccessful, until the founding strike of Local 1005 of the United Steelworkers of America in 1946. Physically, the honden is the heart of the shrine complex, connected to the rest of the shrine but usually raised above it, and protected from public access by its own fence. Many of its main buildings in the north end of Hamilton are built on reclaimed or infilled land, which harmed the drainage of Hamilton and the water ecology of Hamilton Harbour. This is usually closed to the general public; the priests themselves enter only to perform rituals. Several existing smaller steelworks combined and were incorporated as the Steel Company of Canada in 1910. In Shinto shrines, the honden (本殿, "main building") is the most sacred area, intended purely for the use of the kami. Stelco (TSX: STE.A, TSX: STE.B) is a steel company based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as is longtime rival Dofasco.