Hi, although anyone is welcome to offer manufacturers names which they feel belong to this thread, as the initiator I chose to leave out several whom I thought were not Canadian as set by the constraints given which were; those who had begun manufacturing on Canadian soil in the past using mainly domestic Canadian materials and labour, those who
miraculously are able to still do same and those who business, which although originally mainly Canadian in entirety, have been forced to offshore much of their product content.
These parameters were intended solely to present the closest thing to a true Canadian-made product now or beginning in the past. It's entirely possible that some could be removed from the lists already given based on constriants.
Note the exclusion of NAD, a company which, neither previously nor presently, manufactured anything here but yet is now considered a Canadian company. Of course, it's only Canadian location-wise in the sense that the holding Company, which simply owns the NAD trademark
and oversees Asian operations, is based here.
By contrast for example, Paradigm and other South Ontario loudspeaker manufacturers, used to have their speaker parts designed and built in Canada by Cambridge Speaker works (another Southern Ontario manufacturer long since gone). The cabinet materials came from
Canadian forests, the veneers mostly from same barring the exotic, the inductors and probably some of the capacitors as well. Even though Paradigm has much of their modern operations manufactured
overseas, in China most likely, they meet the thread criteria for inclusion.
Naturally, there are very few finished products in existence that have their labour and materials originate solely from one country. The capacitors in popular 1970's U.S.A. built JBL's largely used capacitors manufactured in Mexico, not the U.S.A., and so forth, is one such miniscule additional example. Nevertheless, the majority of JBL's original production and materials were of stateside origin.
Milton Freedman sums up the capitalist collaboration between nations given here in an excerpt from a popular documentary series he made.
YouTube - Power of the Market - The Pencil
