Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd. was an aircraft manufacturing company located in

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, Canada that built aircraft for the

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during the

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. Formed on December 15, 1916, when the Imperial Munitions Board bought the Curtiss (Canada) aircraft operation in Toronto (opened in 1916 as Toronto Curtiss Aeroplanes) at a 6-acre facility at 1244 Dufferin Street south of Dupont Avenue in April 1917. The public company was run by Sir Frank Wilton Baillie, an industrialist and financier. Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd. manufactured the JN-4(Can) Canuck (1200), the

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flying boat (30), and the

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. The plant remained opened until after the Armistice and was sold to Columbia Graphophone Company Limited in 1919. After 1924 it was sold to

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Canada Limited as a car assembly plant till 1928. The industrial site was re-developed in the 1970s as the Galleria Shopping Centre and Wallace-Emerson Community Centre. The south side of the property is lined with homes.

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Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1916 Former defence companies of Canada Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Canada Manufacturing companies based in Toronto Aviation history of Canada 1916 establishments in Ontario Canadian companies established in 1916 {{WWI-stub

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