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After several major expansions during the 1920s, OHS became Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute in 1930. [2] In the post-war era, when Oshawa began building other high schools, OCVI was renamed O'Neill Collegiate and Vocational Institute after long-time principal, Albert O'Neill, who had led its expansion and transition to collegiate status.
In July 1977, Fergus Ontario's Beatty Farm Division, previously owned by GSW, was sold to Pedlar. [23] This was part of Kirkland's plans to expand Pedlar's sales beyond Ontario; to the rest of Canada and into the United States. [18] In 1978 they purchased another Oshawa manufacturing operation, Fittings Limited [24] and Palmer-Shile from ...
Escort carriers at the Vancouver Shipyard in 1943 The USS Gambier Bay CVE-73, an escort carrier that was made in the Vancouver Shipyard. The Kaiser Company (Vancouver, Washington), commonly known as the Vancouver Shipyard, was an emergency shipyard constructed along the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington, to help meet the production demands of the U.S. Maritime Commission in World War II.
2012 – Seaspan's Vancouver Shipyards commences the $170 million Shipyard Modernization Project in preparation for federal shipbuilding contracts under the NSS program. [18] 2014 – Canada's largest permanent gantry crane arrives at Seaspan's Vancouver Shipyards. The crane weighs in at 300 tonnes, stands 80 metres (260 ft) high and spans 76 ...
Allied Shipbuilders grew from the demise of a predecessor company, West Coast Shipbuilders Ltd.The demand for wartime cargo-ship orders provided the incentive for a group of Vancouver businessmen to set up a four-berth shipyard in False Creek, Vancouver, British Columbia, [1] on a site where the J. Coughlan & Sons shipyard had operated during the First World War and where the Athlete's Village ...
CTC Trenton (HMCS Ontario) is a detachment located in Kingston, Ontario [12] HMCS Ontario Sea Cadet Summer Training Centre began life as Cadets Camp Frontenac (sailing camp) on 4 July 1977, and was officially redesignated as HMCS Ontario Cadet summer Training Establishment on 13 July 1981 thus allowing Ontario to expand and to offer a wider ...
The UAW was founded in August 1935, and the Canadian Region of the UAW was established in 1937 following the 1937 GM Oshawa strike at General Motors's Oshawa, Ontario plant. The Canadian Region of the UAW unionized the Ford Motor Company in 1945 after a major strike which established the right of Canadian labour union members to union dues ...
On January 3, 2012, during the 2011/2012 Winter Holidays, the school had a fire inside the gymnasium.The damage was 'just over $1 million'. [3] This caused the school's original plans to have the 50th anniversary in May, to be pushed back several months, but classes still resumed on January 9. [4]