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Dominion Glass Company Ltd.
Organization
Identifier
CU.ENT.00417
Display date
1913-1990
(activity)
History
"The Dominion Glass Company was Canada's largest and longest-running manufacturing of glass tableware. The Diamond Flint Glass Company of Montreal (founded in the nineteenth century) reincorporated in 1913 as the Dominion Glass Company after merging with Sydenham Glass in Wallaceburg, Ontario, and the Jefferson Glass Company in Toronto, both also originally founded in the nineteenth century.
Dominion Glass became fully automated by the twenties and produced more than five thousand products, including tableware, lamps, bottles, birdcages, doorknobs and insulators. By the thirties, it phased out most of its household products, although the Wallaceburg plant continued to make some kitchen glass and tableware. The Wallaceburg glassworks became known as the St. Clair Division of Dominion Glass in 1974 and concentrated on beverage ware (goblets and glasses).
The large manufacturer Libbey Glass of Toledo, Ohio, merged with the division in 1978 and the newly incorporated Libbey St. Clair Glass produced some beverage ware and candleholders until it ceased production in 1999 (last known as Libbey Glass of Canada). In 1989 Consumer Glass (the Montreal glass container company founded in 1917) bought Domglass (so named after 1976). Now known as Consumers Packaging, it is the largest manufacturer of glass containers in Canada."
Dominion Glass became fully automated by the twenties and produced more than five thousand products, including tableware, lamps, bottles, birdcages, doorknobs and insulators. By the thirties, it phased out most of its household products, although the Wallaceburg plant continued to make some kitchen glass and tableware. The Wallaceburg glassworks became known as the St. Clair Division of Dominion Glass in 1974 and concentrated on beverage ware (goblets and glasses).
The large manufacturer Libbey Glass of Toledo, Ohio, merged with the division in 1978 and the newly incorporated Libbey St. Clair Glass produced some beverage ware and candleholders until it ceased production in 1999 (last known as Libbey Glass of Canada). In 1989 Consumer Glass (the Montreal glass container company founded in 1917) bought Domglass (so named after 1976). Now known as Consumers Packaging, it is the largest manufacturer of glass containers in Canada."
History Source
Design in Canada (2004), p. 237
Domicile
Canada