Canadian General Electric

Canadian General Electric
Founded	1892
Founder	merger of Edison Electric Light Company of Canada and Thomson-Houston Electric Light Company of Canada
Defunct	1989
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Area served	Canada
Products	consumer appliances, electric equipment

General Electric Canada
Type	Canadian unit
Founded	1989
Headquarters	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Area served	Canada
Key people	Jeff Immelt, CEO and Chair, General Electric Co.
Products	consumer electronics, financial services, aviation, healthcare, oil & gas, rail, energy, water
Website	www.ge.com/ca

Canadian General Electric (CGE, also known as GE Canada) was a Canadian manufacturer of various electrical products. The company was a forerunner of General Electric Canada, now known as GE Canada. It was the Canadian counterpart of the American company General Electric. The unit became General Electric Canada in 1989.

The early logo for Canadian General Electric, similar to the logo for General Electric in the U.S.A.

Canadian General Electric Co. Limited (CGE) was incorporated in Canada in 1892 as a merger of Edison Electric Light Company of Canada (of Hamilton, Ontario) and Thomson-Houston Electric Light Company of Canada (of Montreal), both incorporated in Canada in 1882.^[1] The Canadian merger occurred in the same year as the merger of parent companies Edison General Electric (of Schenectady, New York) and Thomson-Houston Company (of Lynn, Massachusetts) into General Electric, which continues to the present day as a major international conglomerate.

CGE had about 500 employees at inception and was already producing generators, transformers, motors, wire and cable, and lighting products for consumer and industrial products.^[2]

Label on a GE Canada AC Generator at the Limestone Generating Station in Manitoba, Canada.

Historic milestones

CGE had a long manufacturing history in Canada:^[2]

1892 - Founded
1899 - Produces the Canadian General Electric electric car, for model year 1899 only, in Peterborough, Ontario. The car is essentially a Woods Electric.
1911 - Acquires Sunbeam Lamp Company of Toronto.
1912 - Establishes Montreal lamp plant.
1921 - Vacuum tube operations begin in Toronto.
1922 - Canadian Edison Appliance Company established.
1945 - Small appliances plant opens in Barrie, Ontario.
1946 - Plastics plant opens in Cobourg, Ontario.
1946 - Lighting plant opens in Oakville, Ontario.
1947 - Electric meter plant opens in Quebec City.
1971 - First nuclear power plant in Pakistan opens, built by CGE^[3]
1975 - Household appliance division spun off and merged with GSW Inc., a Canadian manufacturer of household appliances with brands such as McClary, Easy, and Moffat, in a new company named Camco. Camco is a publicly traded company and is a part of the General Electric family of companies.
CGE becomes General Electric Canada, a wholly owned unit of General Electric.
1990s - Electric lamp operations in the Oakville, Ontario factory slowly begins to get transferred to Warren, OH and Winchester, VA (now closed) lamp plants. Most fluorescent tube operations are ceased by the late 1990s.
2009 - Most incandescent lamp production lines in the Oakville, ON plant are stopped. Production is transferred to Winchester, VA.
2010 - Oakville, ON lamp plant closes. Remaining incandescent lamp operations are transferred to Mexico and China. A few products are outsourced from Sylvania's US plants. T8 fluorescent tube operations go to Bucyrus, OH.

References

↑ Fred Kee. "Electricity - The Magic Medium, chapter: The Electrical Manufacturing Industry, page 1" (PDF). Retrieved 27 June 2010.
1 2 Radiomuseum.org. "History of the radio manufacturer Canadian General Electric Co. Limited (C.G.E.)". Retrieved 27 June 2010.
↑ https://cnpp.iaea.org/countryprofiles/Pakistan/Pakistan.htm

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divisions

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Former and defunct	Australian Guarantee Corporation¹ Canadian General Electric¹ Compagnia Generale di Elettricità² Electric Bond and Share Company² GE Americom² GE Aerospace² GE Betz¹ GE Capital IT Solutions² GE Consumer & Industrial GECIS² GE Capital Rail Services² GE Equipment Services¹ GE Industrial¹ GE Infrastructure¹ GEIS² Genesis Lease² GE Security² Genworth Financial² Montgomery Ward² Synchrony Financial² Tungsram¹ Whatman¹

Joint ventures and
shareholdings

Current	CFM International (50%) Engine Alliance (50%) GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (60%) GE Honda Aero Engines (50%) Penske Truck Leasing Prolec GE (49.99%) TBS GB

Former	Alco-GE (1940–53) NBC (1926–30, 1986–2004) NBCUniversal, LLC (2004–13)

Products and brands

People

Founders	Charles A. Coffin Thomas Edison Edwin J. Houston J. P. Morgan Elihu Thomson

Other	James Cash Jr. Ann Fudge Susan Hockfield Jeffrey R. Immelt Andrea Jung Rochelle Lazarus Sam Nunn Roger Penske Douglas A. Warner III Jack Welch Bob Wright

Places and facilities

Other

¹Now integrated into other GE divisions or business groupings
²Sold or spun off

Category
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