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Strategies & Market Trends : Dino's Bar & Grill -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Goose94 who wrote (62021)	7/11/2019 8:55:49 AM
From: Goose94	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 202923

Bombardier (BBD.B-T) Thunder Bay plant has been a fixture of the Northern Ontario city for more than a century, and has been the subject of layoffs and shutdowns almost as long. Life began in 1912, and fully opened in 1917 as the Canadian Car and Foundry (Can Car) plant on the bank of the Kaministiquia River, manufacturing boxcars. During the First World War, it switched to building minesweepers for the war effort. What is now Thunder Bay was once the twin cities of Port Arthur and Fort William. The plan went dormant between 1921 and 1937. During those years, Can Car kept a staff of about a dozen people to maintain the facility. The plant kicked up production again during the Second World War, winning contracts to make fighter planes. Workers built 1,451 Hawker Hurricanes plus Grumman and Burnelli aircraft. The work force had ballooned to 7,000 by the end of the Second World War. After the war, the plant transitioned to building trolley and railcars for passenger trains. Bombardier took possession in 1992. Since then, it has mostly built Toronto subway cars, streetcars, Metrolinx light-rail cars and GO Transit train cars.