Canadian General Electric was a Canadian manufacturer of various electrical products. It was the Canadian counterpart of the American company General Electric. The unit became General Electric Canada in 1989, and is now known as GE Canada. Canadian General Electric Co. Limited was incorporated in Canada in 1892 as a merger of Edison Electric Light Company of Canada and Thomson-Houston Electric Light Company of Canada, both incorporated in Canada in 1882. The Canadian merger occurred in the same year as the merger of parent companiesEdison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Company into General Electric, which continues to the present day as a major international conglomerate. CGE had about 500 employees at inception and was already producing generators, transformers, motors, wire and cable, and lighting products for consumer and industrial products. in Manitoba, Canada.
1899 - Produces the Canadian General Electric electric car, for model year 1899 only, in Peterborough, Ontario. The car is essentially a Woods Electric.
1975 - Household appliance division spun off and merged with GSW Inc., a Canadian manufacturer of household appliances with brands such as McClary, Easy, and Moffat, in a new company named Camco. Camco is a publicly traded company and is a part of the General Electric family of companies.
1989 - CGE becomes General Electric Canada, a wholly owned unit of General Electric.
1990s - Electric lamp operations in the Oakville, Ontario factory slowly begins to get transferred to Warren, Ohio and Winchester, Virginia lamp plants. Most fluorescent tube operations are ceased by the late 1990s.
2009 - Most incandescent lamp production lines in the Oakville, Ontario plant are stopped. Production is transferred to Winchester, Virginia.
2010 - Oakville, Ontario lamp plant closes. Remaining incandescent lamp operations are transferred to Mexico and China. A few products are outsourced from Sylvania's US plants. T8 fluorescent tube operations go toBucyrus, OH.
2018 - Planned Peterborough plant shutdown
2018 - Planned reciprocating gas engine plant opening in Welland, Ontario to replace an existing factory in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The reason for moving to Canada from the U.S. is a lack of export financing from the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
