Industry | Utility and civil engineering |
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Founded | 1907 [1] |
Founder | Royal Securities Corporation [1] |
Successor | AGRA Monenco, AMEC |
Headquarters | Canada |
Montreal Engineering Company, later Monenco was a Canadian engineering services company operating in the energy and infrastructure utilities area.
The company became an important player in North and Latin America [2] and elsewhere, such as the feasibility study and design of the Diamer-Bhasha Dam, [3] and Jebba Hydroelectric Power Station respectively. [4] The company was also involved in the ill-fated World War 2 experiment Project Habakkuk. [5] [6]
In 1907 a department of the Royal Securities Corporation with three staff members was spun out into the Montreal Engineering Company Ltd. In 1919 the company became part of the portfolio of financier Izaak Walton Killam whose expansion and acquisition of electrical utilities and other industrial concerns grew the company. After Killam's death in 1955 the company was bought by its senior employees. [1]
After 1964 the company diversified from its core electrical power business, it became a public company in 1969 and was renamed Monenco Inc.. [1]
In 1992 the company was acquired by AGRA Inc. AGRA Monenco was subsequently acquired by AMEC in 2000. [1]
Izaak Walton Killam was a Canadian financier.
Ontario Hydro, established in 1906 as the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, was a publicly owned electricity utility in the Province of Ontario. It was formed to build transmission lines to supply municipal utilities with electricity generated by private companies already operating at Niagara Falls, and soon developed its own generation resources by buying private generation stations and becoming a major designer and builder of new stations. As most of the readily developed hydroelectric sites became exploited, the corporation expanded into building coal-fired generation and then nuclear-powered facilities. Renamed as "Ontario Hydro" in 1974, by the 1990s it had become one of the largest, fully integrated electricity corporations in North America.
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