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6A THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesday, February 28, 1967 Federal Trade Minister Lauds Oshawa's Progress By HON. ROBERT H. WINTERS, Minister of Trade and Commerce I congratulate the publishers of the Oshawa Times on the production of this Centennial review of business and indus- try. It is good for people and communities alike to look back every once in a while and establish compass bearings for further progress. Oshawa has come a long way, indeed, from the settlement of "Skoe's Corners'? which was its genesis. Today, as the source of more than 355,000 ears and trucks produced an- nually, your city has establish- ed itself as the eastern anchor of Ontario's industrial "Golden Horseshoe." It has broadened its base over the years and now manufactures a wide vari- ty of goods which finds a ready market, both at home and abroad. Its growth rate of 55 per cent over the past ten years establishes Oshawa as one of Canada's fastest grow- ing cities and statistics show that Oshawans enjoy an income 28 per cent above the national average. Canada, too, has been grow- ports and Canada's trade defi- cit in automotive products is now diminishing. Concurrently Canada's share of the auto- motive market is increasing, which reflect the improving competitiveness of the Cana- dian industry. EXPORT GROWTH Continued export growth is essential to meet the mounting $800 million in 1966. Provision in the Canada - United States Automotive Agreement for foreign exchange needs of Can- ada's developing economy and to ensure industrial expansion along sound and _ productive lines. If Canada is to maintain merce has initiated a number of projects, designed to help industry broaden its sphere of operations and achieve its ex- port goals. | An Export Advisory Council, made up of senior Canadian businessmen and industrialists, has been formed: to advise me jand the Department on our export trade program and to give leadership within their industrial and business associ- ations. We are bringing senior Trade Commissioners from all our foreign posts to Canada this year and arranging a series of export trade promotion confer- ences in major cities from coast to coast. At these confer- ences, businessmen will have the opportunity of discussing their export prospects in vari- ous markets in personal, con- fidential interviews with the Trade Commissioner who knows most about the area in question. We have also inaugurated a Through one hundred years of progress, from quiet coun- try town to a vital, key city within Canada's greatest in- dustrial belt, Oshawa's re- markable growth. in popula- tion and prosperity has been no accident. It has all come about thanks to Oshawa people -- some of them fore- most among Canada's indus- trial pioneers. Even since before the "'car- riage days' Oshawa people have been demonstrating a willingness to examine new ideas and innovations and to profit from them. They have been the kind of people who create dynamic communities. And Oshawa people are still like that. Today, because we live in an ever-growing country, we have the opportunity to keep our city ever - growing. Our future here can be just as great -- or little --as you and I choose to make it. Our own individual contributions of confidence, initiative and ability will tell Oshawa's fu- ture story. Oshawa's has past been new communications network across Canada to put prospec- tive' exporters in immediate touch with export specialists in the Department. By simply dialing long distance and ask- City Airport ing over the past ten years and I am happy to report that our exports are more than keep- ing pace with growth in other | areas. Last year we exported a record volume of goods, valued at more than $10 billion and this year we are reaching for a target of $11% billion. A most encouraging feature of our export development has been the increase in foreign sales of manufactured goods. Much of this growth in man- ufactured exports consists of automotive products. Canada's exports of automotive products have increased more than four- fold in the past two years to an estimated value in excess of duty-free movement of automo- tive goods both ways across the border has, in fact, brought a substantial increase in two- way trade and imports also have risen substantially. Dur- ing the past year, however, the growth in exports has over- taken the continuing rise in im- ROBERT WINTERS a position in the forefront of the world's economic advance, further penetration of foreign markets must be obtained by applying imagination, determin- ation and energy to the sale of competitively priced goods and services in which our country can excel. To reach the target we have set for outselves, many new companies must seek foreign markets for their products. To help accomplish this, the De- partment of Trade and Com- DEBT OF GRATITUDE OWED TO PIONEERS IN BUSINESS © Dear Mr. Editor: It is a pleasure to have this opportunity of offering a word of congratulations to the businese and industrial leaders of Oshawa' for the part which they have played in the growth and_develop- ment of this great city. Located at the eastern end of what is known as the Golden Horseshoe, our city is an' important part of the industrial core of Ontario and from the industry of Oshawa come a fair share of the economy of our Pro- ce. Oshawa owes a great debt of gratitude to the pioneer business men who had the vision and faith in those early days to choose the small community of Oshawa as the site of their business and industrial futures. I feel sure they would agree that the Job they started has been carried forward in a highly successful manner. Industrial development is essential to any successful community as it provides not not only employment oppor=7 tunities for its citizens, but also the balance of assess- menr which is so important in the overall picture of 'civic administration. Throughout Ontario our Gross Provincial Product con- tinues to expand to new heights each year, and Osh- awa is participating in this _ jing the operator for ZENITH 01967, Ontario businessmen will be connected immediately to our Ottawa headquarters, where the call. can be trans- ferred promptly to the officer best equipped to deal with it. When our Toronto regional office opens in April, you will be put in direct touch with our officials there by calling the same number. The whole trade promotion program has, as its common theme, a symbol denoated by the letters ESP. The symbol stands for the Export Sales Potential that all Canadian pro- ducers of goods and services possess and for an invitation to join the Department in an Ex- port Sales Partnership that can translate your potential into Export Selling Power. Hun- dreds| of businessmen have used the new Zenith network to discuss these aspects of ESP since the service began on Jan- uary 5. I hope thousands will use it during the year ahead. These are some of the things the Canadian business com- munity can look forward to dur- ing our Centennial year. We hope that our forward momen- tum in the world of trade will be complemented by a compar- able advance in tourism. Can- ada is preparing to receive a record number of visitors this year at Centennial events ac- ross Canada and at Expo 67-- the first official world exhibi- tion of the highest category ever to be held in the Western Hemisphere. As the Minister responsible to Parliament for the Federal Government's participation in Expo 67, I extend a warm in- vitation to all readers to visit pate in your own Centennial ob- servations with enthusiasm and to join us in an all-out effort to make 1967 a big year, not only in Canada, but for Canada throughout the world. ALBERT V. WALKER expansion. Our population forecasts predict continued increase and possibilities for citizens will join me in ex- pressing the hope that our city will enjoy continued in- dustrial development and a buoyant economy in the years that lie ahead. Yours sincerely, Name Derived From Indians When the community was in- corporated as a village in 1850 a more suitable name was ture development would {sought than the one it had appear to be unlimited. "Skea's Corners"'. I am sure all. my fellow | On the suggestion of an Indian Chief, Oshawa was de- cided upon. The name of our city Osh-| awa means "'the crossing of a| stream. With continued develop- ment Oshawa was incorporated as a town in 1879, and in 1924, Albert V. Walker, MPP Oshawa. FOR 7 PHONE 725-1044 a ie Se oe ee ee ee oe ae | with a population of 16,659 be- came the 25th city of Ontario. SERVING OSHAWA & DISTRICT OVER 22 YEARS mo Cus New Work Renovations Baseboards ning Guide" Quick, Dependable Service... Over 22 Years of Satisfiéd Bathroom and Kitchen Repoirs Installations PUC Woter Heaters FREE BOOKLET Ask for our FREE BOOKLET . . "Plumbing and Heating Home Plan- tomers @ Repairs @ Basement Toilet @ Hot Water Hesting Installed 24-HOUR SERVICE rabio DISPATCHED CALLS GOODMA Pah emaeve PLUMBING & HEATING OSHAWA Expo in Montreal, to partici-| Gives Service Oshawa has an _ impressive commercial airport for air ser- vice. Three runways, two of them. lit, can handle anything up to a DC 3. Measuring 2,670 by 150, 2,650 by 150 and 3,476 by 150 the runways are used by scheduled, semi-scheduled and chartered airlines. Although Oshawa Municipal Airport has no connections with no other larger air routes as yet, it takes only 40 minutes from Oshawa to drive to Mal- ton International Airport along ton International Airport along Highway 401 -- less than it takes from downtown Toronto. Family Link Is Retained The Pedlar People Ltd., 4s another Oshawa company with deep roots in the community. This quaint name was chosen by G. H. Pedlar in 1911. It des- ignates a company operated from Oshawa since 1861. The family tradition has re- mained intact with the present president, John G. Geikie, a descendant of the founders. Anthony Esposito has another kind of Oshawa success story, He turned a $1,000 catering business into one grossing more than $2,000,000 yearly. There is also Cole of California (Cana- da) Ltd. plant capable of turn- ing out $1,000,000 worth of bath- ing suits annually. REGULAR MILK SOME OF OSHAWA'S PEOPLE KEY INDUSTRIAL PIONEERS E. H. WALKER + +» Gives Review marked by great forward surges sometimes followed by quieter periods of consolida- tion -- but always the long term trend has been upward. It will continue to be up- ward. I sincerely believe that the best is yet to come for Skinner Firm Forerunner Houdaille-Hershey Corp. In 1834, in the Town of Brock- ville, Ont., a partnership was formed between Sylvester Skin- ner and William McCullough. They produced farm implements such as scythes, snaths and grain cradles. The demand for this equipment was constant, prior to the invention of. me- chanical reapers, and the part- nership thrived. In 1857 Sylvester Skinner was able to buy out his partner. He then moved to Gananoque where a much larger plant was constructed, and about this time he brought his two sons into the business as partners. One of the sons, Sylvester Case Skinner, became the sole owner after the death uf his father and brother, and in 1898, he incorporated the firm under an Ontario charter. By 1910 the demand for Skin- ner type farm implements had practically disappeared, but the revolutionary automotive in- dustry was beginning to take shape. With foresight, the Skin- ner Company successfully turned to the manufacture of round bar bumpers for Ford cars, With the outbreak of World bar bumpers and in 1924 be- came patent licensee and com- mercial representative of the C. G. Spring and Bumper Company of Detroit, Michigan. Through this association the Skinner Company expanded rapidly, be- coming the largest producers of automotive bumpers in Canada. SOLD COMPANY In 1929 Fred V. Skinner, the son of Sylvester Skinner, sold his company to the Houdaille- Hershey Corporation, and short- ly thereafter the Oshawa plant was-established and was in full production by January 1, 1930. In 1955, the company name was simplified to Houdaille Industries. Through product development and additions to the plant, pro- duct lines now include steel inner body stampings for the automotive trade, as well as steel stampings for the plumb- ing and recreation industries. Houdaille - Oshawa is actively participating in the exportation of automotive bumpers to the United States in accordance with the Canada-United States Trade Agreement. Shipments have in- creased from five carloads per Old Reformer Liberal Organ The Oshawa Reformer was month in 1965, to an unprece-/the Jeading Liberal organ in dented thirty-five cars in 1967. In 1966 we utilized 31,000 tons of Canadian steel in the fabrica- tion of our steel product, as mnds of our electroplating process. Houdaille-Oshawa is a mem- ber of Houdaille Industries In- corporated, a collection of some sixty business concerns in the United States and Canada that produce industrial tools machinery, construction _pro- jects and construction materials and automotive parts. Vv South Ontario when its first appearance April 1871, as well as 900,000 pounds of Can-/¢ adian nickel to meet the de- Cline, it made 15, a four-page __eight- paper with W. R. editor of the Bowman- ille Statesman, as publisher. It was later purchased by 'olumn Mr. E. Mundy, a veteran news- paperman, former then became an eight- and|page seven column paper de- voted to the best interests of the community and a_ sturdy advocate of Liberal principles. in 1878. The Re- ) Built In Oshawa... Model Airplane Construction Kits EASY-BUILT 4 |War I, automotive production FEWER STOPS | ° go gg git ag og --and |Wa8 curtailed. During this per-| Cars which make fewer stops Model Airplane Co. our opportunity. iod the Skinner Company man-)-an expect greater economy. | P B. J.. KONKLE ulartured A Pig fi "Stop and go' 'driving in cold} rer he ey E. H. Walker, spurs for the Canadian Cavalry|weather greatly reduces gaso-| " President and General Man- |division. ine aileare. 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