Canadian Locomotive Company - End of CLC

End of CLC

Declining business and a union strike in April 1969 closed the plant that June. It was demolished in August 1971 after having constructed over 3000 locomotives from its earliest beginnings, making it at the time, Canada’s second largest commercial builder after Montreal Locomotive Works.

The site of the old plant sat vacant for 35 years while several proposed developments failed to materialize. After work to negate the effects of a century of industrial pollutants in the soil, it has recently been redeveloped with three high-rise apartment and condominium buildings, a hotel, and a municipal park.