Montreal Engineering Company

{{Short description|Canadian engineering company}}

{{Infobox company

| logo = Montreal Engineering Company logo.png

| fate = Acquired by AMEC

| successor = AMEC E&C Services Limited

| foundation = {{start date|1907|9|16|df=y}}

| defunct = {{end date|2001|1|1|df=y}}

| location_city = Montreal, Quebec

| industry = Engineering

}}

The Montreal Engineering Company Limited, and from 1985 onwards 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{{cite book| title= The Federal Court of Canada: a history, 1875–1992|author = Ian Bushnell|publisher = University of Toronto Press| year =1997| url = https://archive.org/details/federalcourtofca0000bush| url-access= registration| page = [https://archive.org/details/federalcourtofca0000bush/page/240 240]|isbn = 9780802042071}} and elsewhere, such as the feasibility study and design of the Diamer-Bhasha Dam,{{cite web|url = http://www.wapda.gov.pk/htmls/water-dams-basha.html|title = Diamer Basha Dam|work = www.wapda.gov.uk|publisher = WAPDA|access-date = 2011-07-09|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111004064020/http://www.wapda.gov.pk/htmls/water-dams-basha.html|archive-date = 2011-10-04|url-status = dead}} and Jebba Hydroelectric Power Station respectively.{{cite web| url = http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20110408483917| title = FG, Japan to sign N3.5bn power deal| author = Sunday Ojeme, Bauchi| date = 8 April 2011| work = www.punchng.com| publisher = The Punch}}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The company was also involved in the ill-fated World War 2 experiment Project Habakkuk.{{cite web|url=http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/obj/irc/doc/pubs/ir/ir398/ir398.pdf| title = PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF FROZEN WOOD PULP| author = G. M. Williams| date = July 1972| publisher = National Research Council of Canada}}{{cite journal|url = http://www.thewarillustrated.info/230/strange-story-of-hms-habbakuk.asp|title = Strange Story of H.M.S. Habbakuk|author = Francis E. McMurtrie|journal = The War Illustrated|volume = 9|number = 230|page = 774|date = 12 April 1946|access-date = 9 July 2011|archive-date = 15 October 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161015153801/http://www.thewarillustrated.info/230/strange-story-of-hms-habbakuk.asp|url-status = usurped}}

History

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.amec.com/sustainabilityreport2007/pdfs/100_years_of_AMEC_in_canada.pdf| title = 100 years of AMEC in Canada|publisher = AMEC (Sustainability Performance Report 2007)| work= www.ameec.com| date = 2 November 2021}}

After 1964 the company diversified from its core electrical power business, it became a public company in 1969 and was renamed Monenco Inc..

In 1992 the company was acquired by AGRA Inc. AGRA Monenco was subsequently acquired by AMEC in 2000.

References

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=Further reading=

  • {{cite book| title = Profits and politics: Beaverbrook and the gilded age of Canadian finance|author =Gregory P. Marchildon| publisher = University of Toronto Press| year = 1996|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=wsF3hL-POfAC| chapter = 5. The Montreal Engineering Company|pages = 97–121|chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wsF3hL-POfAC&pg=PA80|isbn =9780802007407}}
  • {{cite book| title =The Free-standing company in the world economy, 1830-1996| editor1 =Mira Wilkins|editor-link1=Mira Wilkins|editor2=Harm G. Schröter|publisher =Oxford University Press| year = 1998| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ddbft0cU6qcC| chapter = 15 The Montreal Engineering Company and International Power: Overcoming the Limitations of the Free-Standing Utility| author = Gregory P. Marchildon| pages= 391–420|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ddbft0cU6qcC&pg=PA391| isbn =9780198290322}}

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Category:Construction and civil engineering companies of Canada

Category:Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1907

Category:Canadian companies established in 1907

Category:Companies based in Montreal

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Category:1992 mergers and acquisitions

Category:2000 mergers and acquisitions

Category:1907 establishments in Quebec

Category:2001 disestablishments in Quebec