Matthew Moody & Sons was founded in 1845 as a maker of agricultural equipment. In the 20th century, they made a small range of woodworking and metalworking machinery, which included metal lathes and wood planers.
The Metallic Roofing Company of Canada was established in 1886, and made metal roofing, ceilings, sidings, and other architectural components. The company was a top manufacturer of architectural sheet metal in Canada in the 1800s and 1900s, and was one of the several sheet metal companies that merged to form Western Steel Products, which was later known as Westeel Products Limited.
The Minneapolis Moline Company, originally called the Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Company, was founded in 1929 by the merger of the Moline Plow Company (established 1852, formerly Candee, Swan & Company), the Minneapolis Threshing Company (formerly Fond du Lac Thresher / McDonald Threshing Co, established 1887), and the Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company (formerly Twin City Iron Works and Minnesota Malleable Iron Works, a division of Gillette-Herzog Manufacturing, established 1902). Based in Minneapolis and Hopkins, Minnesota, the Minneapolis Moline Company built tractors, tillage tools, cornshellers, and threshing machines. The company opened factories in Great Britain, and in 1951 it acquired the BF Avery & Sons farm equipment company.
The Minneapolis Moline Company was reorganized under Motec Industries in the early 1960s, which was acquired by the White Motor Corporation in 1963, which was later purchased by AGCO in 1991.
The Museum Children's Theatre was founded in 1964 by Susan Rubes.
Native Earth Performing Arts (NEPA) is an Indigenous Theatre Company founded in Toronto in 1982. It is Canada's longest running professional Indigenous theatre company. In its early days (1982-1986), the company’s productions were collaboratively written and performed by the actors. The focus of this Company was to provide opportunities for Indigenous people to have success in the arts as well as to bring attention to Indigenous creators, actors and artists.
In 1984, the company held a workshop to discuss how to bring the “trickster” role back into the theatre, and by 1985, NEPA produced Trickster’s Cabaret. Soon after, in 1989, the Company created the “Weesageechak (Cree for Trickster) Begins to Dance” Festival which encouraged the development of works that often ran for a full season afterwards.
Success in obtaining government funding in 1986 helped stabilize the company, allowing it to establish its own office and hire its first full-time Artistic Director, Tomson Highway. That year also saw the production of Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters which quickly became hugely popular, spurring NEPA to take it on a national tour. It drew the attention of the preeminent Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was invited to participate there. At home it won the Dora Mavor Moore Award and Chalmers Award.
In 2012, NEPA announced its permanent home at Aki Studio in Toronto. This venue has also hosted many other multicultural and independent theatre companies including fu-Gen, Cahoots, Obsidian, Acting Up Stage, Paper Canoe, and Agokwe Collective.
Previous Artistic Directors include founding members Dennis Lacroix and Bunny Sicard (1982-1983); Monique Mojica (1983-1986); Tomson Highway (1986-1992); Floyd Favel (1992-1994); Drew Hayden Taylor (1994-1997); Pamela A. Matthews (Interim 1997-1998); Alejandro Ronceria, Sandra Laronde and Daniel David Moses (Artistic Directorate 1998-2000); Alanis King (2000-2002); Doris Peltier, Glenn Shea, and Marion De Vries (Interim) in 2002; Yvette Nolan (2002-2010); Tara Beagan (2011-2013); Ryan Cunningham (2013-1017), and Keith Barker, acclaimed Métis theatre artist (2017-2022). In 2022, Joelle Peters was appointed Interim Artistic Director.
NDWT (Ne`er-Do-Well-Thespians) was organized in 1975 in Toronto by playwright James Reaney, Director Keith Turnbull, and a number of actors. The company occupied the Bathhurst Street Theatre for most of its existence. It was dedicated to producing original Canadian plays and eventually organized a native theatre group called Northern Delights under the direction of Jim Morris. NDWT left the Bathurst Street Theatre in 1980, and Turnbull closed the company in 1982 with plans to reopen the following year, but NDWT did not resume operations.
Necessary Angel, the name being inspired by a Wallace Stevens poem, was founded in 1978 by Richard Rose. Based in Toronto, Necessary Angel has dedicated itself to creating original works with the goal of creating original works designed to challenge and engage audiences. The company has been the source of premiering works by Michael Ondaatje, Richard Rose, Timothy Findley, and many other notable playwrights. Daniel Brooks was artistic director from 2003 to 2012 and Jennifer Tarver from 2013 to 2018.
The New Hamburg Manufacturing Company was located in New Hamburg, Ontario. The company was known to manufacture steam traction engines, portable steam engines, and threshers. The company closed in 1917.
In New Holland, Pennsylvania in 1895, Abram Martin Zimmerman (1869-1944) opened a blacksmith shop and began repairing and making farm machinery for the local farmers. Zimmerman also began retailing the Otto four-cycle engine and the Columbus single-cylinder dual-flywheel stationary engine. Around 1900, he started manufacturing his own stationary freeze-proof cylinder engine as well as feed mills and grinders. In 1903, Zimmerman incorporated his business as the New Holland Machine Company. In 1912, the company began manufacturing its own rock crusher and by 1914 it had also added a wood saw to its line of farm machinery. The New Holland Machine Company was purchased by the Sperry Rand Corporation in 1947, to form Sperry New Holland, and began manufacturing the maybine mower conditioner. In 1964, Sperry New Holland bought a major interest in Claeys (Clayson), one of Europe’s largest combine manufacturers. In 1975, Sperry New Holland introduced the world's first twin-rotor combine.
The New Holland brand continued to grow in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The company manufactured tractors, combine harvesters, balers, forage harvesters, self-propelled sprayers, haying tools, seeding equipment, hobby tractors, utility vehicles and implements, and grape harvesters. In 1986, the farm equipment line of Sperry New Holland was acquired by Ford to form Ford New Holland Inc. Fiat purchased an 80% interest in the company in 1991, and in 1999, New Holland N.V. and Case Corporation merged to form CNH Industrial.
New Theatre, an alternate theatre in Toronto, operated from 1971 to 1982.