1954
A foundryman in cap and shirtsleeves tends a furnace mouth; sparks and a white smoke plume fill the shop.
The company
Canadian Car and Foundry, Can-Car, built railway cars, buses, and aircraft from Montreal. It was formed on 29 October 1909 from Rhodes Curry of Amherst, Canada Car of Turcot, and Dominion Car and Foundry. Railcars were made at Montreal and Amherst. A Fort William plant, opened in the First World War, built Hawker Hurricanes and Curtiss Helldivers in the Second, more than 2,300 fighters.
Canadian Car & Foundry Company, Limited Annual Report 1954
That year
Canadian Car & Foundry spent a substantial portion of $3,029,067 in capital expenditures modernizing the Longue Pointe foundry.
Canadian Car & Foundry Company, Limited Annual Report 1954, p. 8