BEPCO Canada Ltd.

Title

BEPCO Canada Ltd.

Type

Company
Subsidiary

Coverage

Montreal, QC

Active From

1935-01-01

End Date

1961-01-01

Location

43-45 Niagara Street, Toronto, ON (1935)
Rue St Catherine Ouest, Montreal, QC. (Head Office) (1944)
Cole Building, 1355 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON (1957)

Product Areas

Electrical

Activities

Supplying
Manufacturing

Timeline

1935 – Active in Toronto at 43-45 Niagara (“Might’s Greater Toronto city directory, 1935”)

1940 – Active in Montreal, producing a “CM” Current Transformer. (“Dept of Trade and Commerce” 1940)

1944 – Active at 40 Niagara Street, Toronto with head office at 4018 St Catherine St. W., Montreal (“The Electrical Apparatus and Supplies Industry in Canada 1944”)

1957 – Bepco occupies a space in the new Cole Building at 1355 Wellington Street in Ottawa. ("Three stages of history")

1961 – Dissolved, replaced with Dominion M.I., formed by Metal Industries Ltd., an English electrical engineering group. President and General Manager of the new company is E.A. Chandler, the former chief engineer of Bepco (Electronics and Communications (November 1961): 18)

Sources

Canada Department of Trade and Commerce – Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Census of Industry, Mining, Metallurgical and Chemical Branch “The Electrical Apparatus and Supplies Industry in Canada 1944” (Ottawa, 1946)

“Department of Trade and Commerce Electricity and Gas Inspection Services – File 1023”, January 31, 1940 (http://www.ic.gc.ca/pics/lm/electric/nrc/0136.pdf)

"Three stages of history of the Il Negozio Nicastro building and property" The Kitchissippi Museum, Friday, April 19, 2019 (http://kitchissippimuseum.blogspot.com/2019/04/) [29/02/24]

Tags

Citation

“BEPCO Canada Ltd.,” Precision Instrument Culture in Canada, accessed October 16, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/instrument-precision/items/show/50.

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