In 1907 this firm was making sawmill machinery, including a swing-style shingle machine. In 1916 the business was acquired by a larger Owen Sound company, Wm. Kennedy & Sons.

From January 1907 Canada Lumberman and Woodworker

Information Sources

• November 1902 The Canada Lumberman. "A large business is gradually being built up by the Own Sound Iron Works Company, of Owen Sound, Ont. This company have just decided upon the erection of new works of an extensive character. The main building, to be known as the machine shop, will be 300 feet long and about 50 feet wide. There will also be a pattern shop and metal storage building each 40 feet long, and a boiler shop 100x40 feet. The company make a specialty of saw-milling machinery."
• The 1909 Canadian Almanac and Miscellaneous Directory lists Owen Sound Iron Works Co., Ltd. among "iron foundries and works in Canada".
• The 1910 Sessional Papers—Legislature of the Province of Ontario has a list of workplace injuries in the year 1909, including a fatal accident at Owen Sound Iron Works when one John Rumby fell down the open hatch of the S. S. "Tagona" in the harbour.
• The 1913 edition of the Blue Book of American Shipping lists Owen Sound Iron Works as a maker of engines and boilers.
• The 1915 edition of J. J. Harpell's Canadian industry, commerce and finance lists Owen Sound Iron Works Co., Ltd., as a maker of stationary boilers, timber carriers, brass/bronze/copper castings, iron castings, marine engines, stationary steam engines, shafting hangers, cement-making machinery, planing mill machinery, iron pulleys, smoke stacks, and steel tanks.
• 1915-10-28 The Iron Age.

  The Owen Sound Iron Works Company, 1175 First Avenue, East. Owen Sound, Ont., will shortly install machinery In its plant to manufacture high explosive shells.

• The 2005 book, The Frances Smith: Palace Steamer of the Upper Great Lakes, 1867-1896, by Scott L. Cameron, says, "David Christie's Own Sound Iron Works manufactured threshing machines, steam engines, stoves and ploughs."