The History of Babcock & Wilcox Canada
| 1844 | Dumfries foundry started in Cambridge, Ontario. | |
| 1859 | John Goldie and Hugh McCulloch purchased foundry. | |
| 1867 | George Babcock & Stephen Wilcox obtained patents for "Babcock & Wilcox Non-Explosive Boiler" (water tube boiler) & "Babcock & Wilcox Stationary Steam Engine". | |
| 1881 | The Babcock & Wilcox Company incorporated in New Jersey, USA. | |
| 1891 |
Goldie & McCulloch began to concentrate on steam engines, boilers
and heaters Babcock & Wilcox, Limited incorporated in Britain. |
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| 1923 | Babcock & Wilcox, Limited and The Babcock & Wilcox Company bought into The Goldie & McCulloch Company Limited of Cambridge, Ontario, forming Babcock-Wilcox & Goldie-McCulloch Ltd. in Canada. | |
| 1953 | The Babcock & Wilcox Company entered the commercial nuclear power market in the 1950s and formed the Atomic Energy Division in Barberton, Ohio in 1953. | |
| 1963 | Babcock & Wilcox became sole owner, acquiring the Goldie-McCulloch interests. | |
| 1968 | Babcock-Wilcox and Goldie-McCulloch Ltd. renamed Babcock & Wilcox Canada, Ltd. | |
| 1969 | Babcock & Wilcox Canada, Ltd. began a $10 million series of expansions that continued for a decade. | |
| 1978 | McDermott International, Inc. purchased B&W. | |
| 1982 - 1994 | Babcock & Wilcox Canada managed B&W's expansion into international markets including joint ventures in six countries. | |
| 1989 | Babcock & Wilcox opened a second manufacturing facility in Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada. | |
| 1993 | Babcock & Wilcox sold its interest in the Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Service Company (a small joint venture with Framatome, that provided services and fuel to a few nuclear plants in the USA). As part of the agreement, Framatome became a licensee permitted to use certain Babcock & Wilcox technologies to support this service business. However, Babcock & Wilcox did not sell its ownership or rights to its technology. | |
