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Foundation Company of Canada

Canadian construction company (1924–2001)

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The Foundation Company of Canada Limited was a Canadian construction company that existed from 1924 to 2001. The company's origins lay in New York City, where the Foundation Company was founded in 1902. In 1909, Foundation was invited by the Canadian Pacific Railway to build caissons as part of the construction on Windsor Station in Montreal. Foundation operated in Canada from 1909 until 1924. That year, Richard E. C. Chadwick and a group of investors bought out the company's Canadian operations and incorporated the Foundation Company of Canada Limited. In 1963, a parent company, the Canadian Foundation Company Limited, was formed to hold the Foundation Company of Canada and its subsidiaries.

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