Collection search - Drummondville Cotton Co./Bluenose Netting Co. [textual record]

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Drummondville Cotton Co./Bluenose Netting Co. [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-series

Date:

1925-1974.

Reference:

R1351-20-1-E, MG28-III77

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

156963

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Dominion Textile Company fonds

Subsidiary company records

Drummondville Cotton Co./Bluenose Netting Co.
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Sub-series includes:

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Date(s):

1925-1974.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1.57 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Sub-series contains the minutebooks of Drummondville Cotton and Bluenose Netting. These minutes provide detailed information on cost and production information, as well as management's hardline relations with workers' unions. Other executive records include files on the purchase of the Jenckes-Canadian Company by Dominion Textile in 1928. Financial records include the annual financial statements, investment records, receipts and ledgers of Drummondville Cotton. These records provide very detailed data for activities during the Second World War. Drummondville Cotton also functioned as Dominion Textile's investment company. The size and scope of these investments can be assessed in the investment transfer records. Insurance appraisals provide extensive detail about the mill and its equipment for the 1930s.

The sub-series also consists of a sub-sub-series related to John S. Brooks Limited/Bluenose Netting & Twine Limited.

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Drummondville Cotton Co

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Drummondville Cotton Co : The Drummondville Cotton Company was established by Dominion Textile as a subsidiary company in 1928. Formerly the Jenckes-Canadian Company (incorporated in 1919) until purchased by Dominion Textile, the Drummondville Cotton Co. manufactured tire cord in Drummondville, Quebec. In 1936, when a major client (the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company) opened its own tire cord plant, Drummondville Cotton began to make fishing net and twine. During the Second World War, Drummondville Cotton expanded its netting and twine production at the request of the Canadian government to counter wartime curtailment of imports from Japan and the United Kingdom. In 1946, the company acquired John S. Brooks Limited as a subsidiary in an effort to consolidate the netting and twine business. Operations were integrated into the parent company in 1953, although the company continued to exist on paper.

In 1958, Drummondville Cotton changed its name to Bluenose Netting Company Limited. Bluenose Netting was created to separate sales of netting and twine from its parent company, Dominion Textile. Bluenose Netting closed its operations in 1971.

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MG28-III77
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Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Volume [MG28 III 77]

[Consultation 90 Open]

23--27;

[Consultation 90 Open]

42;

[Consultation 90 Open]

56--60;

[Consultation 90 Open]

62;

[Consultation 90 Open]

230--232;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [MG28 III 77] 28

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

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