Waterous Engine Works (Brantford, Ontario)

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In 1844, PC Van Brocklin established a small foundry on Dalhousie Street to manufacture stoves and plows. Four years later, Charles H Waterous moved from Buffalo, NY and acquired an interest in the foundry. Expanding production to steam engines and engines for oil wells, Waterous took over the foundry and renamed it Waterous Engine Works in 1874. By 1880 the company added sawmill and forestry equipment and firefighting apparatus.

Lacking room for expansion on Dalhousie Street, the company, with the assistance of the City of Brantford, purchased a 25 acre site on Market Street South and constructed a new factory in 1906. During this period brick making machinery, steam and road rollers, stone crushers and pulp mill equipment were introduced. In 1953, Waterous was bought by Milwaukee based farm and plastic machinery manufacturer Koehring, which concentrated on the firm's pulp and paper machinery business. The plant closed in 1992.