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Penmans Ltd. [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-sub-series

Date:

[ca. 1854-1986].

Reference:

R1351-61-4-E, MG28-III77

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

156928

Context of this record:

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Dominion Textile Company fonds

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The Penman Manufacturing Co.

Penmans Ltd.
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Sub-sub-series includes:

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

[ca. 1854-1986].

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1.08 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Sub-sub-series consists of the corporate bylaws, shareholder lists and minutebooks of Penmans's Ltd. Although fairly routine in nature, the minutebooks do supply information on firm financing and corporate paternalism.

Legal records include documents pertaining to Penmans Ltd. and its predecessor, the Penman Manufacturing Company. Items include title deeds, agreements and mortgages on mill sites, employee housing and the YWCA in Paris, Ontario. Files, which document Penmans' participation in the Royal Commission on Price Spreads and Mass Buying (1935) and the Royal Commission on the Textile Industry (1936), provide information and financial details on company activities prior to the Second World War.

Additional records pertaining to Penmans Limited, including property records and trademark files are located in the Dominion Textile Inc. series.

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Penmans Ltd

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Penmans Ltd : Penmans Limited was established in 1906 when the directors of Dominion Textile bought control of The Penman Manufacturing Company and reorganized the company. Naming David Morrice as the new company's President, Dominion Textile maintained very close ties with its first affiliate. Subsequent presidents of Penmans Ltd. were also presidents of Dominion Textile.

Penmans Ltd. continued the growth pattern of its predecessor firm, acquiring the Anchor Knitting Company of Almonte, Ontario in 1907, purchasing the Ellis Underwear Company of Hamilton, Ontario in 1911 and constructing new plants in Waterford, Ontario in 1916 and London, Ontario in 1919. Items produced included hosiery, underwear and other knitted goods.

In 1965, Dominion Textile offered to purchase all outstanding common shares of Penmans Ltd. and acquired all the remaining stock. The 1970s saw the partial integration of Penmans operations into Domil Industries Limited, another Dominion Textile subsidiary. Downsizing included the closure of the Waterford plant in 1964, and the Paris Nith River mill in 1970. The remaining Paris mill, the Brantford plant and the St. Hyacinthe plant closed in 1983, when Dominion Textile transferred their operations to a single facility in Cambridge, Ontario.

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MG28-III77
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG28 III 77]

[Consultation 90 Open]

19--21;

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226--230;

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348;

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379--380;

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