Canadian Aeroplanes

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| industry = Commercial aviation

| image = Hydroplanes - Manufacturers - Naval Aircraft Factory - F-5 - BUILDING AEROPLANES FOR MILITARY USE. Hull of F-5 flying boat under construction in plant of Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd., Toronto, Canada - NARA - 31484834 (cropped).jpg

| image_caption = Factory in 1918

| fate = Purchased by Columbia Graphophone Company Limited

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| founded = {{Start date and age|1916|12|15}}

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| defunct = 1919

| hq_location_city = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd. was an aircraft manufacturing company located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that built aircraft for the Royal Flying Corps Canada during the First World War.

Formed on December 15, 1916, when the Imperial Munitions Board bought the Curtiss (Canada) aircraft operation in Toronto (opened in 1916 as Toronto Curtiss Aeroplanes) at a 6-acre facility at 1244 Dufferin Street south of Dupont Avenue in April 1917.[http://www.greenhere.ca/GREENHERE/Neighbourhood_Profile.html Davenport neighbourhood profile] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923230116/http://www.greenhere.ca/GREENHERE/Neighbourhood_Profile.html |date=September 23, 2012 }}

The public company was run by Sir Frank Wilton Baillie, an industrialist and financier.{{cite book|url=http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?id_nbr=7892 |first=Craig |last=Heron |chapter=BAILLIE, Sir FRANK WILTON |title=Dictionary of Canadian Biography |volume=15 |publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval |date=2004 |access-date=24 January 2015}}

Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd. manufactured the JN-4(Can) Canuck (1200),{{cite web |url=http://casmuseum.techno-science.ca/en/collection-research/artifact-curtiss-jn-4-canuck.php/ |title=Curtiss JN-4 "Canuck" |work=Canada Aviation and Space Museum |date=2015 |access-date=24 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128114703/http://casmuseum.techno-science.ca/en/collection-research/artifact-curtiss-jn-4-canuck.php/ |archive-date=2015-01-28 |url-status=dead }} the Felixstowe F5L flying boat (30),{{cite web|first=Martin |last=Shadwick |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/military-aviation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012124235/http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/military-aviation |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 12, 2012 |title=Military Aviation |publisher=The Canadian Encyclopedia |date=2015 |access-date=24 January 2015}} and the Avro 504.[https://ingeniumcanada.org/aviation/collection-research/artifact-curtiss-jn-4-canuck.php CASM, Curtiss JN-4 “Canuck]

The plant remained opened until after the Armistice and was sold to Columbia Graphophone Company Limited in 1919. After 1924 it was sold to Dodge Brothers Canada Limited as a car assembly plant till 1928.{{cite book |title=From Horse Power to Horsepower: Toronto: 1890-1930 | author-link = Mike Filey |last1=Filey |first1=Mike |first2=Victor Loring |last2=Russell |location=Toronto |publisher=Dundurn Press |page=34 |year=1993 |isbn=1550022008 }}

The industrial site was re-developed in the 1970s as the Galleria Shopping Centre{{cite thesis |last= McKay|first= David|date= 2007|title= Redeveloping Greyfields in the Greater Toronto Area|type= M.Sc.|publisher= Department of Geography, University of Toronto}} and Wallace-Emerson Community Centre. The south side of the property is lined with homes.