Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
General Steel Wares |
Other names |
GSW or G.S.W. General Steel Wares LImited (1969+) |
Dates & places of birth and death |
Established in October of 1927 |
Nationality |
Canadian company |
Occupation |
Manufacturer of steel items, cast iron, housewares, milk cans, dairy supplies |
Notes |
General Steel Wares was a Canadian company that was established in October, 1927. They made various items, such as housewares like washtubs, baby bath tubs, oil stoves, cream cans, lanterns, metal lunch boxes, metal lanterns, etc. A researcher mentioned in 2019 that her father worked at the old Dairyland in Vancouver circa 1965 and there was an exhibit with General Steel Wares (GSW) there. She mentioned that GSW was probably supplying Dairyland with cannisters. She inherited a black ashtray with red letting "GENERAL STEEL WARES LIMITED" and "MILK CANS DAIRY SUPPLIES" with a black and white milk cannister depicted in the middle with the red GSW shield. She remembered seeing it pressed at the c. 1965 event at Dairyland. They used a GSW shield-shaped mark. On a metal churn that they produced, there were emboss-cast "GSW" letters. In October, 1927, General Steel Wares was born through the merger of the following companies: The McClary Manufacturing Company of London, Ontario (founded 1847) The Sheet Metal Products (SMP) Company of Canada Limited of Toronto (founded 1867) The Thomas Davidson Manufacturing Company Limited of Montreal (founded 1858) The E. T. Wright Limited of Hamilton (founded 1881) The A. Aubry et fils Limitée of Montreal (founded 1874) The Happy Thought Foundry Company of Brantford (founded 1855) Beatty Brothers Limited, a metal farm implement company established in 1873 at Fergus, Ontario, gained a controlling interest in GSW in 1962 through a reverse takeover, thereby merging these two companies under the GSW name. There is a fonds at McMaster University Archives for the General Steel Wares Limited that would have more details about the company. The name General Steel Wares Limited is 1969+. |
