Collection search - Shawinigan Chemicals Limited fonds [textual record, graphic material, cartographic material]

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Shawinigan Chemicals Limited fonds [textual record, graphic material, cartographic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1896-1985.

Reference:

R6989-0-3-E, MG28-III108

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102341

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Shawinigan Chemicals Limited fonds
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Fonds includes:

26 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1896-1985.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

29.72 m of textual records.
155 photographs multiple processes, b&w.
4 maps.

Language of material:

English
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Gulf Canada fonds [textual record]

Shawinigan Chemicals Ltd. fonds [textual records (microform)]
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Fonds consists of the business records of Shawinigan Chemicals Limited including records created by predecessor and affiliated companies prior to its incorporation in 1927. The fonds also contains the records of Gulf Canada Products Co. dealing with petrochemical business development. As such, the series included in the fonds are as follows: Gulf Canada Products Company: petrochemical business development; printed material; petrochemical facilities at Varennes, Quebec; Scotia Coal Synfuels Project; loop reactor technology; Gulf Canada Limited: Vice-President's correspondence; Technical Development Department; Product Research Department monthly reports; Plant Research Department monthly reports; plant visits; chemists notebooks by product name; Shawinigan Research Laboratories reports; reports, general; published research papers; papers, articles, and speeches by officers of Shawinigan Chemicals Limited; historical material; products; Management Committee; technical manuals and catalogues; legal and financial material and miscellaneous; contracts, agreements and royalty files; annual financial statements; shareholders' meetings and financial statements; predecessor and affiliated companies.

Fonds also consists of photographs of people and events related to Shawinigan Chemicals, 1900-1976.

Also included are of maps of Quebec, one dealing specifically with Shawinigan Falls, Almaville and Shawinigan.

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Shawinigan Chemicals Ltd

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Shawinigan Chemicals Ltd : The Shawinigan Carbide Company, forerunner of Shawinigan Chemicals Limited, was established in 1901 by Thomas Leopold "Carbide" Willson, who invented the carbide manufacturing process in 1892. The plant was sited at Shawinigan Falls in order to take advantage of surplus electric power produced by Shawinigan Water and Power Company, itself established in 1898. In 1909 SWPC gained a controlling interest in Shawinigan Carbide Company and in other Willson companies, and in 1911 reorganized them as the Canada Carbide Company.

In 1915 SWPC established the Canadian Electro Products Company to manufacture acetone and other products for the British war effort. With the loss of its markets in 1918, the new company directed its research facilities to the development of chemicals for civilian consumption; thenceforth the company and its successors based their production heavily on original research. In 1927 Canadian Electro Products and Canada Carbide Company were amalgamated as Shawinigan Chemicals Limited.

In expanding their product line, SCL and its predecessors created or purchased a number of subsidiaries, usually as joint ventures with other companies. Included were Niacet Chemical Corporation of New York (1925), Midwest Carbide Company of Iowa (1929), Shawinigan Resins Corporation (1937) and Canadian Resins and Chemicals Company (1941). In 1942 SCL founded St. Maurice Chemicals Limited to produce an explosive called Methite ("R.D.X"), one of a large number of wartime projects undertaken for the British and Canadian governments. Postwar subsidiaries included BA-Shawinigan Limited (1951), an entry into the electrochemical business, Gelvatex Coatings Corporation of California, (1950), McArthur Chemicals (1953) and Hedon Chemical Limited of the U.K. (1955).

In 1961 British American Oils acquired a 25% interest in SCL in exchange for its share of BA-Shawinigan. By 1964 BA and its parent company, Gulf Oil Corp., had acquired 100% of SCL, and in 1969 SCL was amalgamated with BA, now re-named Gulf Oil Canada Limited.

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Textual records: (Paper) Finding aid 1726 is a file list. MSS1726

Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS1726
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000331.pdf

Photographs: (Paper) Finding aid is a list of subjects as well as selected captions (for accession 1989-050). FA-361

Cartographic material: (Paper) Finding aid is a detailed list.

(Electronic) All or some of the documents described have been digitized and are available at the following address: (90: Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_102341

(Electronic) Les documents décrits ont été complètement ou en partie numérisés et sont disponibles à l'adresse suivante : (90: Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_102341?usrlang=fr

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General note:

Received in 1987 and 1988 from Gulf Canada Resources Limited, Calgary, Alberta.
Subject heading:

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Pacific Coast (North America)

Petroleum chemicals industry - Canada, 1977-1985 Shawinigan Carbide Company, 1901

Petroleum chemicals industry - Quebec (Province), 1950-1973 Canada Carbide Company, [1911]

Chemical industry - United States, 1929-1944 Canadian Electro Products, [1927]

Chemical plants - Canada, 1929-1973 Niacet Chemical Corporation of New York, [1925]

Chemical plants - United States, 1929-1944 Midwest Carbide Company of Iowa, [1929]

Chemists - Canada, 1945-1972 Shawinigan Resins Corporation, [1937]

Chemistry, Technical - Research - Canada, 1964-1971 Canadian Resins and Chemicals Company, [1941]

Chemical plants - Pilot plants, 1932-1934 St. Maurice Chemicals Limited, [1942]

Chemical labratories - Canada, 1909-1971 BA-Shawinigan Limited, [1951]

Chemical literature, 1941-1976 Gelvatex Coatings Corporation of California, [1950]

Chemical workers, 1916-1975 McArthur Chemicals, [1953]

Chemical plants - Design and construction, 1950-1973 Hedon Chemical Limited (Great Britain), [1955]

Production managment, 1962-1965 T.L. Willson, [1919-1981]

Production planning, 1962-1965 R.A. Witherspoon, [1919-1981]

Marketing, 1944-1968 Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue (Quebec), 1964-1971

Manufactures, 1944-1968 Varennes (Quebec), 1950-1973

Chemical processes, 1945-1972 Marubeni Corp., [1977-1985]

Chemistry - Experiments, 1945-1972 Mitsubishi Corporation, [1977-1985]

Corporations - Growth, 1944-1968 Mitsui and Company Limited, [1977-1985]

Corporate planning, 1944-1968 Nova Partec Lavalin Incorporated, [1977-1985]

Foreign ownership, 1944-1968 Petromont and Company Limited, [1977-1985]

International trade, 1944-1968 Point Tupper Gas-Petrochemical Complex, [1977-1985]

Patents, 1944-1968 Montréal (Quebec), 1958-1982

Marketing research, 1944-1961 Morris Gas Plant, 1930-1934

New products, 1964-1971 Bedford Quarry, 1915-1970

Plastic - Research, 1952-1982

Ethylene industry, [19-]

Industrial relations, 1916-1975

Phenol, 1958-1982

Acetylene, [19-]

Emulsion polymerization, 1954-1982

Plant shutdowns - Quebec (Province), 1976-1979

Industry and state, 1976-1979

Atlantic Coast (Canada), [19-]

Branches (Business enterprises) - Manitoba, [19-]

Financial statements, 1896-1971

Consolidation and merger of corporations, 1896-1971

Stockholders, 1929-1965

Sales, 1919-1985

Purchasing, 1919-1985

Licenses, 1919-1985

Secrecy, 1919-1985

Leases, 1919-1985

Cost, 1964-1965

Thermodynamics, [1950-1981]

Shawinigan Chemicals Limited - History, 1919-1981

Calcium carbide industry, 1953

Labour

Legal documents

Pacifique, Côte du (Amérique du Nord)
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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053-88
119-020211-5
121-020389-8
1987/0188
1988-049 DAP
1988/0202 MSS
1989-050 DAP
1989-456 DAP
1991/0322
1994/0086
240-89
414-88
MG28-III108

Former archival reference no.:

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MG28-III108

Other accession no.:

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890210 CA
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Finding aid box [FA 1726] 132

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[Consultation90 Open]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

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