Chas. A. Pacquet Ltée (or Chas. A. Paquette Ltée) is known only from a report of a complete antique woodworking shop in Quebec. The machinery has wooden frames, and one of them was reported to be marked with "Chaste Paquette Ltée Quebec" or "La Cie. Chas. A. Pacquet". It is not certain that they made any or all of the machines, but the method of construction was similar in all of them.
Information Sources
- We learned of this maker from an email correspondent, whose English was less than perfect, reporting an exchange they had had with the seller, whose French as non-existent. Add in a lack of typing and other computer skills, further compounded by no clear photographs of machine labels, and errors can creep in.
- Apparently the Ex-Factory website, which was selling the above-mentioned shop of equipment at one point, named the maker as "LA CIA CHAS A PACQUET". A clear photograph of a nameplate would have been nice, but alas. Presumably "CIA" should be "Cie.", which is equivalent to "Co."
- From a 1909 issue of Canadian Forest Industries: "The Chas. A. Pacquet Company, capitalized at $500,000, proposes to erect a large woodworking plant in the city of Quebec...