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William Kennedy & Sons. In 1882, he moved to Markdale, Ontario where he founded a general engineering and machine shop, T.L. Moffat and Sons. They produced mill machinery, steam engines, pulleys, plows, mangles, and various ornamental castings in iron and brass. Business was slow until the company was persuaded by a local hardware merchant that the future lay in stoves, so they turned their energies to this end, producing their first stove, the "Ploughboy" (which a picture of a man with a plough cast into the door). Soon afterward they set up a long-standing factory in Weston, Ontario, from where their manufactured stoves and ranges became widely distributed across the continent and even used extensively in Europe and Asia. In 1907, T.L. Moffat died, and his eldest son, John King Moffat, took the company reins for the next 23 years. (As an aside, his sister Agnes, who was born in 1905, studied medicine and subsequently became Peterborough's newest female doctor. Her family was apparently not happy with her choice of vocation.)
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Thought Foundry Company of Brantford, Ontario in 1920, followed by the Easy Washing Machine Company in 1958. In 1962, Beatty Brothers Limited of Fergus, Ontario acquired a controlling interest in GSW through a reverse take-over, merging the two large firms.
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Canadian Appliance Manufacturing Company (Camco), making it the largest major appliance manufacturer in Canada. The same year the company acquired the major appliance operations of Westinghouse Canada, exclusive of the "Westinghouse" name. Those products were re-branded as
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Crossfire, Fife, Scotland in 1836) who emigrated to Canada with his family when he was 5 years old. He started an iron and brass castings company in Dundas, Ontario with a Mr. McCallum. Eventually, he moved to Owen Sound where he got a
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