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Ottawa Car Company - Ottawa, Ontario, 1891–1948 [2] Preston Car Company - Preston, Ontario (now Cambridge, Ontario ), 1908–1921, bought by Brill [ 2 ] Toronto Railway Company - Toronto , Ontario , 1891–1920, wooden cars for mostly in-house use only, but built some cars for Mexico and Western Canadian operators by subsidiary Convertible ...
The Hong Kong-Canada Business Association (HKCBA) is a pro-Hong Kong-Canada trade, investment, and bilateral contact organization. Its Toronto section, as of 1991, had about 600 members and it had more than 2,900 members in ten other Canadian cities. The organization published a newsletter, The Hong Kong Monitor, distributed throughout Canada ...
Southeast corner of the machine shop, Dominion Wheel & Foundries. The Dominion Foundry Site is a group of heritage industrial buildings in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The site was developed by Dominion Wheel & Foundries Limited, a rail parts manufacturer based in Toronto. [1] Now publicly owned, the site is planned for sale and redevelopment.
The Ward, c. 1910.Toronto's first Chinatown was situated in The Ward, an area that attracted new immigrants to the city.. Toronto's Chinatown first appeared during the 1890s with the migration of American Chinese from California due to racial conflict and from the Eastern United States due to the economic depression at the time.
The first suburban Chinatown in Toronto with its Chinese residents originating from Hong Kong and Taiwan. [16] Milliken, Markham and Toronto (1990s-Present): Centred near Steeles Avenue and Kennedy Road (). One of the first Chinese ethnic enclaves to extend into Greater Toronto, largely developed during the 1990s.
The neighbourhood is also the site for the only Chinese Archway (牌坊, páifāng) in Toronto, with its official construction beginning in late 2008 and opening to the public on September 12, 2009. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The creation of the archway was due in large part to the efforts of Valerie Mah as a member of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of ...
The number of Hong Kong-born Canadians living in Canada peaked in 1996, with 241,095 Hong Kong-born Canadians reported in that year's census. [5] Between 1996 and 2011, the number of Hong Kong-born Canadians dropped as many Hong Kong-Canadians chose to return to Hong Kong during the 2000s. [5]
Founded by Stanley Ma, originally from Hong Kong, in 1979 when he opened his first restaurant Le Paradis du Pacifique in Montreal; the company incorporated in 1984 and joined the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2010. Most of the company's growth has come through acquisitions, but MTY has also launched at least 10 of the franchises.