Fonds consists of predecessor firms, 1876-1941, 1.10 m; executive records, 1896-1959, 0.70 m; corporate documents, n.d., 1912-1950, 0.14 m; property records, n.d., 1866-1950, 0.72 m; marketing arrangements, 1911-1947, 0.20 m; trade mark and designs, 1897-1950, 0.13 m; production records, 1910-1944, 1.20 m.
Dominion Glass Company : Although the Dominion Glass Company is a by-product of the business consolidation movement of the early twentieth century, its genesis was in 1890 when a group of Montreal and Quebec City financiers founded the Diamond Glass Company in Toronto. During its first decade of the operation, Diamond Glass acquired six other glass works in Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal and Trenton, Nova Scotia. After 1903, the company was known as The Diamond Flint Glass Company. In 1912, the company expanded with construction of a new plant in Redcliff, Alta.
Vigorous competition forced amalgamation with the Sydenham Glass Company of Wallaceburg, Ont., founded in 1895, and the Canadian Glass Company of Montreal, founded in 1910. The resulting business was called "The Dominion Glass Company", and its output accounted for the major share of Canada's glass production. A further take-over came in 1925, when a Toronto firm, Jefferson Glass Company, founded in 1913, was acquired. Now having its head office in Montreal, Dominion Glass Company, has been since 1971 a subsidiary of Consolidated-Bathurst, which is in turn controlled by Power Corporation.
