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  2. John William Billes - Wikipedia

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    John William Billes (1897 – November 1956) was a Canadian businessman and co-founder of Canadian Tire. Born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1922 he and his brother Alfred Jackson Billes bought Hamilton Tire and Garage Ltd. in Toronto. The following year they moved the garage to downtown Toronto where they began the conversion to a garage/retail business.

  3. Alfred Jackson Billes - Wikipedia

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    Born in Toronto, Ontario, Billes went at age 16 to work as a clerk at a branch of the Dominion Bank. In 1922, he used his savings to team up with his brother William to buy Hamilton Tire and Garage Ltd. in Toronto. The following year, the brothers moved the business to downtown Toronto where they began the conversion to a garage/retail business.

  4. Canadian Tire - Wikipedia

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    On October 24, 1922, John William Billes and Alfred Jackson Billes invested their combined savings of $1,800 in the Hamilton Tire and Garage Ltd. (established in 1909 as the Hamilton Garage and Rubber Company) in Toronto. [6] Hamilton Tire and Garage specialized in buying tires at a discount from manufacturers in the winter then reselling the ...

  5. Burlington Street (Hamilton, Ontario) - Wikipedia

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    This includes tires and hoses and plastics such as wire and cable coverings. Carbon black is also used in inks and coatings like copier and computer printer cartridges and paints. The Hamilton plant was built in 1961 and in 2007 employed 100 people. [22]

  6. List of defunct Canadian companies - Wikipedia

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    A&A Records – founded in Toronto at the end of WWII, it was the dominant record chain store in Canada until being superseded by Sam the Record Man in the 1960s; it became defunct in 1993 A&B Sound – home electronics retailer based in Richmond , BC; founded in 1959, it had expanded as far as Winnipeg , Manitoba by 2000, but its subsequent ...

  7. Timeline of events in Hamilton, Ontario - Wikipedia

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    1919 – Hoover Suction Sweeper Company builds a plant in Hamilton. [14] 1919 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of Canada is established. [14] 1919 – Bay Street, derives its name from its proximity to Hamilton Harbour, which was once Burlington Bay. In 1919, a Federal Order-In-Council changed the name of Burlington Bay to Hamilton Harbour ...

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