Canada Wood Specialty Co.
- Id:
- 40
- Date_time:
- Products:
- Lumber & Hardwood Flooring; Moldings & Dowels; Utensil Handles (pots & dishers); Broom Handles; Curtain Poles; Cheese Boxes; Butter Dishes; Hammock Chairs; Mattress Frames; Cots & Cribs; Enameled Bails; Wood Pipes up to Wooden Pails & Barrels; Munitions B
- Start_year:
- 1899
- End_year:
- 2008
- Other_names:
- Originally the Orillia Woodenware Co. 1888, amalgamated with Acme Veneer Works in 1900.
- Company_location:
- Front St. N. 1899 to 1970 at bottom of Coldwater Road. Former site of Pail factory. Then West St. S. at former Eaton Factory
- Owner_president:
- Executives:
- 1909 officers. J. H. Lavallee president. Wm. Thomson vice-president, A.E. Munn sec-tres. and manager.Shareholders J.B. Tudhope and W.H. Tudhope.Stan Coates plant manager for 42 years starting in 1928. In early 1930's W.O. Tudhope became president and Wm.
- Employees:
- 100 in 1909
- Notes:
- In the 1920's they made wooden auto parts including running boards, dashboards and flooring.All wooden handles used on Ice Cream Dishers and Scoops made by Fisher and Tudhope supplied locally by Canada Wood.