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Founded in Montreal in 1963, Playwrights' Workshop was formed with the intention of providing development assistance for a variety of different genres and types of plays. Playwrights' Workshop also participates in a variety of different programs, including a translations workshop. It has helped develop scripts from across Canada and employed directors, actors, and dramaturgs fluent in at least two languages. Since its founding, it has assisted with the plays of such talents as George F. Walker, Carol Bolt, and Tomson Highway.

The Poultry Tribune is a magazine that was first published in 1896. The magazine was acquired by J.W. Watt in1917, which was the beginning of WATT Global Media.

The Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) was established in 1976 with the intention of acting as a support for Canadian Theatres regarding promotional planning and in gaining recognition throughout the country. Based in Toronto, PACT is a member-driven organization that provides leadership, representation, and a number of programs designed to help member theatres in a practical fashion to ensure that they are able to focus on their creative works. Currently, PACT serves over 160 different companies in Canada.

The R. A. Lister and Company, an agricultural machinery company, was founded in Dursley, England by Sir Robert Ashton Lister (1845-1929) in 1867. In 1889, Lister acquired the rights to manufacturer and sell Mikael Pedersen’s cream separator, called the Alexandra Cream Separator. He brought the first cream separator to Western Canada. By the early 1900s, Lister was also producing sheep shearing machinery, milk churns, wooden barrels for butter, and wood-based garden furniture. In 1909, the company also started manufacturing petrol engines, and by 1929 they started producing the cold start diesel engine. By this time it was run by Lister’s son, Charles Ashton Lister (1871-1965). After Charles’ death, the company was acquired by Hawker Siddeley, who created Lister Petter Ltd in 1986.

The Red Barn Theatre, located at Jackson’s Point on the shores of Lake Simcoe near Georgina, Ontario, was Canada’s longest running professional summer theatre. Founded in 1949 in an early 19th century reconditioned barn, the Red Barn Theatre was in its 60th season when it was destroyed by fire on the evening of April 18, 2009. The Theatre was operated by the Lake Simcoe Arts Foundation and the building was donated by the Sibbald family, who operates The Briars, a nearby resort, and has owned the property since the 1880s. Many well-known Canadian actors, directors, and playwrights have worked at the Red Barn Theatre, including Hal Jackman, Martha Henry, Jackie Burroughs, Barbara Hamilton, Alice Munro, Stuart McLean, Shaw Festival founder Brian Doherty, Tarragon Theatre founder Bill Glassco, Don Harron, Nonnie Griffin, Jim Betts, Timothy Findley, and William Shatner. Broadcaster Peter Gzowski also held annual fundraisers for Literacy in Ontario. Producers and artistic directors at The Red Barn have included Alfred Mullock, Marigold Charlesworth, William Whitehead, Jean Roberts, Doug Beattie, and Jordan Merkur. Among the works presented at the theatre were Harvey (1951), Arsenic and Old Lace (1951), Pool’s Paradise (1975), Same Time Next Year (1980), My Fat Friend (1984), Letter from Wingfield Farm (1989), Salt-Water Moon (1989), Songs for a Summer Night (1991), Bordertown Café (1992), Wrong For Each Other (1993), Peggy and Grace (1994), The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1995), Wild Guys (1995), Nunsense (1996), Corpse (1997), Anne of Green Gables (1998), Oklahoma! (1999), My Fair Lady (2000), I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (2002), Over the River and Through The Woods (2002), and Harvest (2009).

Sources

“Red Barn Theatre.” Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, 2014. http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Red%20Barn%20Theatre (accessed February 5, 2019).

Morrow, Adrian. “Ontario’s Oldest Summer Theatre Closes Down.” The Toronto Star, July 4, 2010. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2010/07/04/ontarios_oldest_summer_theatre_closes_down.html.

Road Show Theatre began in 1975 as a theatre group touring summer resorts in the Muskokas. Later, the Road Show Theatre Company settled in Guelph, ON, under the Artistic Directorship of Rex Buckle a faculty member at the University of Guelph. The company performed a wide variety of plays for local audiences until the theatre closed in 1980.

Formed by Robert Bell Jr. (1864-1934) in 1903, the Robert Bell Engine and Thresher Company, also known as Robert Bell Industries Limited, was located in Seaforth, Ontario. Bell had moved to the area in 1898, having previously run the Hensall Engine and Machine Works, where he manufactured circular sawmills and other sawmill machinery. He operated the Seaforth Engine and Machine Works by 1900 and in 1901 received permission to build Port Huron Engine & Thresher Company's engines in Seaforth. The Seaforth Engine and Machine Works became the Robert Bell Engine and Thresher Co. in 1903. They manufactured stationary, portable and traction steam engines; grain separators; sawmills; and heating and process boilers. In 1904, a branch office and warehouse were opened in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

In 1949, the Robert Bell Engine and Thresher Co. was reorganized as Robert Bell Industries Ltd. Bradford R. Smith joined the company as managing director in 1951. Under his direction, Bell produced firetube heating and power boilers as well as warm air furnaces and oil and gas burners. Charles B. Smith became President and Managing Director of Robert Bell Industries Ltd in 1981 and eventually changed the name to Boilersmith Ltd.

The Roblin Cheese Factory was formed as a company in Hungerford Township, located in the County of Hastings, near Belleville, Ontario, in March 1871. The purpose of the company was to manufacture butter and cheese. The company was formed with a capital stock of $3000 that was composed of five hundred shares valued at $6 each. The company was managed by five trustees for the first year: William Rutledge, Ivy Roblin, Sidney Way, Benjamin Foster, and Peter German, all from the Township of Hungerford. After a century of production, the company ceased to exist in 1971. Harry Coulter served as the last president for the company.

Rockwood Academy was founded in 1850 in Rockwood, Wellington County, Ontario by William Wetherald (1820-1898), a Quaker. He sold the school in 1864 to Donald McCaig and Alexander McMillan. McCaig left in 1871, and McMillan continued to run the school until it closed in 1883.

In 1960, Canadian sculptor Yosef (Josef) Gertrudis Drenters (1930-1983) purchased the Rockwood Academy building and property and restored it over the next two decades. The Ontario Heritage Trust acquired the building from Drenters’ estate in 1986.

The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair (RAWF), also known as The Royal, is an annual national agricultural fair, which has been held in Toronto since 1922. Following the First World War, a group of farmers led by W. A. Dryden organized the Agricultural Winter Fair Association of Canada, which acquired the prefix Royal in 1920. That same year, a new livestock arena was built on the Toronto Exhibition grounds.