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D a l l y JournaF-Reeord P ro g r e a t E d itio n , Tuea., M a rch 30, 196S Welding Operation Thriving Industry A success story that makes the Horatio Alger heroes look like sissies in their travels from " rags to riches" happened right here in Oakville to Malcolm McDonald who created and now' heads tlie McDonald Welding Company, 235 Speers Road. In less than 15 years he built a business of repairing oil drum s on a part-time basis to a company with current sales of over $i,000,000 a year. And the end is not in sight. His first job' after World War II was in the instrument de partm ent of the B.A. Oil Clark son refinery, and when the com pany needed a lathe operator Malco.m McDonald obligingly became a journeyman* machin ist. H i t versatility is amazing. Later in his B.A. career a need for welders developed and Mac McDonald again came up with his support although he told his foreman at the time " I don't want to make welding my life's work." CHOOSES WELDING for the Peace Bridge between Fort E rie and Buffalo, and not long ago installed about half the pressure piping for an underground steam distribution system in downtown Toronto. Much of this work requires the highest skill of welders and must withstand X-ray tests. Quality must be the highest. Although Mac McDonald credits much of his success to "luck" , there a re skills and good judg ment evident in the rise of this one-man backyard welding ven ture that captures the imagin ation. ID*; LOOKS AHEAD SO O N! Any day now will painters and begin their carpenters work of putting a fresh new face on our store. It will Three months later however he had a pipe welder's card in his pocket and whether he re alized it or not he was off on the first leg of an amazing business success. With borrowed equipment he took on the part-time job o f repairing B.A. Oil's 45-gallon oil drum s and the company Industrial Land Prices Range From $4,200 A< Oakville has more than 6,500 acres of land a v a i l a b l e zoned for industry a t prices from $4,200 an acre to prestige locations in excess of $10,000 an acre. The land is about six times the area already occupicd by existing industrial operations but the ratio could conceivably change over the next few years as industrial growth continues and industrial public services are expanded to accommodate newcomers. An example of the s t e a d y withdrawal process from t h e Oakville "land banik" was i n 1963 when ten new Industries began new construction or com menced operations in new plant facilities, while expansion in 13 others ate up more space. Last year there was an even more marked trend toward industri al growth as more than 20 com panies extended their plants and about half a dozen new comers came in to o c c u py hitherto unused land. Apart fro m . such huge con struction projects as tlie Shell refinery and tlie $10,000,000 Ford expansion, plus the sub sequent $25,000,000 truck division project, ithe use of *)akville industrial land is a steady but unspectacular process as a rule, taking time to make its cumulative effect felt on t h e economic life of Oakville. Yet there is nothing to p r event an overnight surprise announcement similar to the famous Ford sale, thatanother huge area of Oakville has "gone industrial." There is a w i d e variety of sites available, t he most enticing being the prestige locations in the $10,000 an acre-group (and up) on t h e Queen Elizabeth Way. In contrast there is also acreage on what are called industrial roads where excellent sites are available to firms which have n o interest in the advertising exposure given by highway sites, Such sites, according to t h e Oakville Industrial Development Department usually parallel the main linos of the two railways and are zoned for heavy industry where rail sidings can be provided. It is this type of land that incoming industry can acquire between $4,200 and $8,000 a n acre and what is of p r i m e importance it is fully serviced, Oakville planners and town authorities have shown foresight too in catering to small industries needing not more t h a n two acres for their plants. The town has purchased a fclock of 22 acres which it plans to subdivide into an industrial strip with servicing completed within another year. Additional light manufacturing areas are spotted and available in the town including the central business section. Since most industries h a v e their s p e c i f i c manufacturing needs, these must be adapted to the size and shape of land, and the planning and zoning processes have gone ahead with this in mind. For example, all industrial areas in the southern part of Oakville area, or can be serviced by sanitary sewers, water, electricity, and n a t u r a l gas. All roads are built to town specifications for industrial roads of the type which has proven most satisfactory, Going even further, when an industry's e x a c t specifications for essential services are known, the town can plan and install such services to accommodate the industry in those areas not yet serviced but within the zone of planned development. Mac McDonald always looks ahead. Recently he added to the Oakville plant a 12-foot " press break'* used to bend or break quarter-inch plate, twelve feet wride. This is one of the largest in the area for custom w o r k he says. "What else can we do?" he asks. And answers the question with "duct work, exhaust sys tems, breeching, stacks, hoppers, bulk bins, industrial trucks" , and he adds, "we can supply and erect any kind of structur al steel, weld practically any thing in the shop or on location and as for piping we handle all phases in air, w ater steam , gas and oil piping." Expansion continues in 1965. The firm is Canadian agent for 0 . L. Johnson trolley-track but is also negotiating with a t least three U.S. firms to man ufacture their products in Can ada. " If it is in the realm of the possible we can do it," says Mac McDonald, and he means economically and well. be designed to p r o v i d e you with better service, bet ter selection. We think you' ll like it. CARPET SHOPS LTD. Broadloom -D Interiors Looking PROGRESSIVE Dried Active From fi*uits in the family breakfast cereal package to crab meat salad with cottage cheese in an igloo far north of the Arctic Circle, is a long stretch of culinary imagination, but nothing is really impossible with food in the space age. And it's the job of Dr. Walter Smithies, president of the Oak ville firm of Canada FreezeDry Foods Ltd., 579 Speers Rd., to research and develop n e w concepts of food processing, sto ring and shipping, with some of the most impossible conditions in mind for flavorful, fragile and perishable nourishment. In the second year of opera tion in Oakville the S p e e r s Rd. plant, research laboratory and science research centre, whatever it might be called, is consolidating its progress made earlier in the highly spec ialized treatm ent of freeze-dried foods. These featherweight, naturalappearing, dehydrated f o o d s with immunity to tem perature changes and return to natural freshness with the addition of water, have been shipped for use by travellers in the Himala yas, Arctic trappers and DEW line men, South American jun gle workers, arm y research per sonnel and ordinary campers. SALES GOING UP Roman Arabic Ivey - Dreger Construction Com pany Ltd. are pleased to have had Answers A ll Of Your PACKING, SHIPPING, MOVING & STORAGE Problems REMEMBER THE When the firm located in Oakville two years ago in a uti litarian building on S p e e r s Rd. the mainspring of its m a chinery was Dr. Smithies, then technical director for research and processing (which he still is) who has since assumed the presidency a n d reports with some gratification that c o mmercial sales of the company's products trad e-m ark ed "Quick Serve" are mounting and that the advances made in 1965 in research, production and sales are now being consolidated for the moment. Dr. Smithies gained world fame b e f o r e starting his Oakville venture, as a pioneer scientist with tlie Food U n i t of the Defence Research Medi cal Laboratory in Ottawa. The goodwill and encouragement of government researchers follow ed him to Oakville with forma tion of Canada Freeze-D r y Foods. 'Hie company was aw ard ed a National Research Coun- Consrrucnon Business We value patronage awarded to us-- and extend our appreciation to those who have entrusted their work to our care. the opportunity to complete many building contracts in the Oakville area. IVEY A G E N T S OF CONSTRUCTION Allied Van Lines 2311 L o w e r Mi d d l e Rd. OAKVILLE