Machinerie Etchemin Enr'd was a Quebec reseller and manufacturer of woodworking machinery. They seem to have been active in the early to mid 20th century. Please contact us if you have information on this firm!
Information Sources
- Have seen a few 20" Etchemin planers. "Etchemin" cast into cutterhead cover.
- As detailed below, the few small references we have found to "Machinerie Etchemin Enr'd" or "Machinerie Etchemin Inc." describe then as a machinery retailer so we cannot be certain that they are the ones who made these Etchemin-branded machines.
- Correspondent Paul Thomas provided us with pages from a J. Norman Robinson catalogue containing some Etchemin machines: 20" ball-bearing planer; shaper with 1 3/8 inch spindle; hollow chisel mortiser; single-end ball-bearing tenoner;. Since Robinson, a reseller, was selling Etchemin-branded machines this reduces the likelihood that Machinerie Etchemin Enr'd was putting their name onto machines made by someone else.
- A snippet from a 1956 issue of Revue Légale translates to "Whereas: The writing that the prosecution relies and to which it assigns the date of March 15, 1953, reads: "Machinery Registered Etchemin. Manufacturing, general repairs Sold to Robert Tremblay Inc. Address Our Lady of ..."
- A snippet from a 1957 issue of Industrial Canada is apparently listing the people shown in a photograph, including: "Ernest Lacasse, Machinerie Etchemin Enr'd, St. Romuald;"
- A 1958 issue of Lloyd's Machinery lists "Machinerie Etchemin Inc., SaintRomuald d' Etchemin, P.Q.-—Dealers in machines and tools; $125,000."
- A 1962 issue of The Machinery Industry, a publication of Canada's Dominion Bureau of Statistics, lists "Machinerie Etchemin Enrg.—23 rue Jacques-Cartier, St-Romuald".
- A snippet from a 1964 issue of La Patente translates to "Bédard, Marius, Laval '62, before the machinery Etchemin Inc., in St. Romuald, Que., Is now employed by..."