SPAR Aerospace

Example Artifact

Brampton, ON

Ottawa, ON

1967-01-01

1999-01-01

Brampton, ON (1967)

1700 Ormont Drive, Weston, ON (c. 1980)

Aerospace

Robotics

Designing

Manufacturing

- 1967 – Founded in Brampton, ON “through a management buyout of de Havilland Canada's Special Products division and Avro Canada's Applied Research unit. This provided the name Special Products and Applied Research, or SPAR for short.” (Wikipedia)

- 1976 - Active in the manufacture of equipment for CTS satellite. (“Introducing CTS, Catalyst in Space”)

- 1980 – Worked on Canadarm 1; located at 1700 Ormont Drive, Weston, ON. (“The Canadarm and SPAR Aerospace”)

- 1987 – Active with several locations in Canada. Executive Office: #3690 Royal Bank Plaza, South Tower, Toronto, ON; Aviation Services Division: 825 Caledonia Road, Toronto, ON; Corporate Office: #403-6303 Airport Road, Mississauga, ON; Communications Systems Division & Satellite & Aerospace Systems: 21025 Trans Canada Highway, St. Anne de Bellevue, QC; Defence Systems: 1235 Ormont Drive, Weston, ON & Kanata, ON; Remote Manipulator Systems Division: 1700 Ormont Dr., Weston, ON. (“Canada’s Aerospace Industry: A Capability Guide”)

- 1992 – “successful 1992 bid on the Canadarm2 for the International Space Station.” (Wikipedia)

- 1992 – “SPAR purchased the U.S. company ComStream, who made compression systems for telecommunications and satellites in particular.” (Wikipedia)

- 1997 –SPAR purchases CAE Aviation's aircraft maintenance operations branch. (Wikipedia)

- 1999 – The company sells its robotics division to “MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates as MD Robotics, a subsidiary of its MDA Space Missions division. As part of MDA, it developed the Mobile Servicing System for the International Space Station, which includes the Space Station Remote Manipulator System, also known as Canadarm2.” (Wikipedia)

“A Family Tree of Home-Grown* Ottawa-Carleton High Tech Companies” Silicon Valley North February 1996: 10-11.

“Canada’s Aerospace Industry: A Capability Guide” Aerospace Canada International (1987): 19 (https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2019/isde-ised/Iu41-9-1988-eng.pdf)

D’Intino, Claudio. “The Canadarm and SPAR Aerospace” Emery Village Voice (November 2018) (https://www.emeryvillagevoice.ca/The-Canadarm-and-SPAR-Aerospace) [09-10-24]

“Spar Aerospace” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spar_Aerospace [05-10-23]