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Canada Car Company

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Canada Car Company was a railcar manufacturer based in Turcot, Quebec (a suburb in Montreal), and later merged with several other companies to form Canadian Car and Foundry in 1909.

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Canada Car Company was incorporated January 1905 with W.P. Coleman as president and Sir Hugh Allan as vice-president.

The company's plant began operations in 1905 and manufactured freight and passenger cars.

Clients

  • Grand Trunk Railway and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway - 12,000 freight cars and 250 passenger cars (wood)
  • Quebec, Montreal & Southern - 1,500 steel underframe box cars with Dominion Car and Foundry
  • Montreal Street Railway - 10 streetcars
  • Hart-Otis Car Company - Hart convertible ballast cars
  • Grand Trunk Railway - 30 steel underframe flat cars
  • Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway - three parlour-cafe cars
  • Canadian Northern Railway - four wooden dining cars

    • Products

  • wood freight and passenger cars
  • box cars
  • streetcars
  • flat cars
  • palour cafee cars
  • dining cars

    • References

    Canada Car Company Wikipedia
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