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Aeropostale Canada – subsidiary of the United States-based retailer Aeropostale, closed all 41 stores in Canada in 2016; A&A Records – founded in Toronto at the end of WWII, it was the dominant record chain store in Canada until being superseded by Sam the Record Man in the 1960s; it became defunct in 1993
This is an alphabetical list of companies that have at one-point or another been based in Ottawa: Abacus Data; Alterna Savings; Atkinson Film-Arts; Bank of Ottawa; Bell-Northern Research; BreconRidge; Bridgewater Systems; Brookstreet Pictures; Bruised Tongue; Campeau Corporation; Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation; Canada Mortgage and Housing ...
Founded in 1907, Electrohome was Canada's largest manufacturer of television sets (TVs) from 1949 to 1987. The company was also involved in television broadcasting, and was a leader in data, video, graphics displays and projectors.
The company was founded in 1903 as Canadian Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada by Guglielmo Marconi. [1] In 1925, the company was renamed C anadian M arconi C ompany. In 1948, English Electric purchased the UK based Marconi Company and in 1953 acquired 50.6% of Canadian Marconi Company.
Brian Evans Conway (January 26, 1927 – July 9, 2005), professor emeritus in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Ottawa, was a world-renowned electrochemist, and had a long and distinguished career at the University of Ottawa that spanned five decades. [1] Conway was born at Farnborough, UK.
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CBOFT first signed on the air on June 24, 1955, as the first French-language television station in Ontario. Previously, CBOT aired both CBC and Radio-Canada programs. For a brief time during 1977 and 1978, until CHOT opened, CBOFT also carried some TVA programs, after Ottawa's first TVA affiliate, CFVO-TV (whose channel 30 frequency is now occupied by CIVO) went bankrupt.
Sportswriter for the Ottawa Journal 1926–1973, inductee into the Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame [20] [21] Ezekiel Stone Wiggins: 1839 1910 Amateur meteorologist Philemon Wright: 1760 1839 Farmer, entrepreneur, and founder of Wrightstown, Lower Canada (Hull, Quebec) Ruggles Wright: 1793 1863 Lumber merchant