PRESTON / Buffalo / Toronto / Montreal / Grand Rapids / Chicago / /
Company
STRATFORD MANUFACTURING COMPANY / STRATFORD (later KINDEL) BED COMPANY / KROEHLER MANUFACTURING COMPANY / FARQUHARSON-GIFFORD COMPANY / MCLAGAN FURNITURE COMPANY / Imperial Furniture Company / IMPERIAL RATTAN COMPANY / Canadian Wooden Aircraft Company / STRATFORD CHAIR COMPANY / /
Continent
North America / /
Country
Canada / /
Event
Employment Change / Labor Issues / /
Facility
The Orr Insurance building / Trinity Street factory / /
IndustryTerm
railway systems / /
Organization
Workers Unity League / army / /
Person
George McLagan / Joseph Orr / C.A. MOORE / Jan Kuypers / /
Stratford’s Furniture Industry In the first half of the twentieth century, Stratford was home to Canada’s largest furniture industry. It employed about a quarter of the city’s workforce, the second largest industry