Sparton of Canada Ltd.

Example Artifact

Company

London, ON

1935-01-01

1970-01-01

Elm Street, London, ON (1942)

100 Elm Street, London, ON (1970)

Radio

Auto Signals

Transmitters

Supplying

Designing

- 1935 – Active in London, ON, supplying resistors, condensors, sockets, switches and wire. (Letter from Geo. Foster at Sparton of Canada to G.A. Wooton)

- 1942 – Active as a radio manufacturer on Elm Street, London, ON. (“Quarterly Report – Production and Sale of Radio Receiving Sets July, August, September 1942”)

- 1970 – Active as “Sparton of Canada, Limited” at 100 Elm Street, London, ON. Making “sonobuoy transmitters and associated equipment.” (“Canada in the World of Electronics”)

“Canada in the World of Electronics” Canadian Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce (1970): 23 (https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2024/isde-ised/c1/C1-34-1970-eng.pdf)

Letter from Geo. Foster at Sparton of Canada to G.A. Wooton at Western University, October 18, 1935. Western University Archives, A19-019-001 Correspondence General S 1925-1935.

“Quarterly Report – Production and Sale of Radio Receiving Sets July, August, September 1942” Department of Trade and Commerce, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Census of Industry, Mining, Metallurgical and Chemical Branch, Ottawa Canada (September 1942): 3 (https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/statcan/43-004/CS43-004-1942-3-eng.pdf)