Others’ Words (April 06, 1992)

“I’m in the metal business. Other people till the soil and raise food. Other people cut down trees. We dig metals out of the ground and make them useful. We are the people who carry the rest of the world on our backs. I feel I’m connected to a fundamental occupation, something that has always been here , that I’m part of an ongoing procession that goes back and back and back.”

— Robert Thompson, appointed in 1902 as Inco’s first chairman.