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1865-1984 (Creation)
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ca. 3 metres of textual records
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Administrative history
The Waterloo Manufacturing Company can trace its origins to 1850. In that year, Jacob Bricker (1818-1909) joined the firm known as Buehler, Booth & Co, a foundry in Waterloo, Ontario. After buying out Mr. Buehler and Mr. Booth soon after and being joined by his brother, Abraham Bricker (1809-1897), the company became J. & A. Bricker & Co. Also known as Waterloo Foundry and Jacob Bricker & Co, the company manufactured steam engines, boilers, stoves, and agricultural implements, including reapers, mowers, separators, and threshing machines.
Jacob and Abraham retired in 1882 and Jacob’s sons, Levi Bricker (1843-1925) and Jacob Bricker Jr. (1852-1948), took over the business. E. W. B. Snider (1842-1921), proprietor of the Waterloo Distillery and Flouring Mill, secured a share in the business in 1884, and in 1888, together with Absalom Merner (1850-1920), owner of another Waterloo foundry, the business became a joint stock company known as the Waterloo Manufacturing Company. By 1908, the company employed 150 men and had 15 travelling salesmen, as well as branch offices in Winnipeg and Regina. By the 1920s, the company also acted as Canadian distributors for many U.S.-built farm engine brands including Hart Parr, Rock Island Heider, Rock Island, Belle City, Twin Cities, Minneapolis-Moline.
Snider’s sons, in control of the company after his death in 1921, sold the agricultural implement division to Playfair and Company of Toronto in 1927. Waterloo Manufacturing continues today as a full boiler sales and service company.
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The Waterloo Manufacturing Company collection contains catalogues, price lists, advertisements, annual reports, sales records, financial and operational records, newspaper clippings, and photographs/illustrations.