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In Brantford, Ontario in 1844, Philip Cady VanBrocklin (1808-1902) opened an iron foundry and made ploughs and stoves, and later sawmills, steam engines, and threshing machines. Thomas Winter joined the company in 1848 to form VanBrocklin, Winter & Company. Charles Horatio Waterous (1814-1892) also joined the company in 1848. Although not a partner, Ignatius Cockshutt (1812-1901) offered financial support.
By 1854, VanBrocklin and Winter were stepping away from the firm. Waterous entered a partnership with another Brantford foundry firm – Goold, Bennett and Company – to purchase VanBrocklin, Winter & Co. His new partners were Franklin P. Goold and Adolphus B. Bennett, in Brantford, and Joseph Ganson, Holester Lathrop, and Ralph W. Goold, operators of a foundry in Brockport, New York. The new firm - Ganson, Waterous & Company – purchased the company from VanBrocklin in 1855. Cockshutt remained behind the scenes.
In 1864, Waterous bought out Goold and Bennett and added a new partner, George H. Wilkes. The company was renamed the C. H. Waterous & Co, and was also known as the Brantford Engine Works. A decade later, in 1874, the business incorporated as a stock company under the name, Waterous Engine Works Company Ltd. Cockshutt continued to financially back Waterous, so much so that his son, James George Cockshutt (1851-1885), became President of the company, with Waterous as General Manager. Wilkes sold out to Waterous in 1877. By this time, the company manufactured woodworking machinery, including the straight-line sawmill, as well as grist mills, shingle machines, steam engines, fire engines, fire hydrants, pumps, and related products. The company opened a plant in Winnipeg, Manitoba, which in 1886 relocated to St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1898, the Waterous Engine Works created the first gasoline-engine fire pump.
In 1926, the company name was shortened to Waterous, Ltd. By this time the company was starting to develop a successful line of machinery for the pulp and paper industry. In 1929, Waterous Engine Works bought the Edmonton Iron Works as their western Canadian office. Waterous Ltd was purchased by the Koehring Company of Milwaukee in 1953 and became Koehring-Waterous Ltd. The company manufactured construction and forestry equipment.
In 1988, Koehring-Waterous was acquired by Timberjack Ltd., a forest harvesting equipment manufacturer in Woodstock, Ontario, and continued as a division of that company. It closed in 1992.