This company, associated with Alma Manufacturing Co. of Michigan, was established in 1906 to manufacture the McVicker design of gasoline engines. The company never really got off the ground and went into liquidation in late 1907 or early '08. There are no reports of surviving Canadian McVicker Engines, which should be similar or identical to those made by Alma Manufacturing Co.

From January 1907 Canadian Electrical News

Information Sources

• 1906—The Gas Engine Magazine, August 1906 pg 262.

  The Canadian McVicker Engine Co., Galt, Ont.. has been incorporated with a capital of $100,000, to manufacture gas and gasoline engines.

• 1906—August 1906 Canadian Machinery.

  The Canadian McVicker Engine Co., Limited, has been organized in Galt to build the McVicker gas and gasoline engine in Canada. This company will be associated with the Alma Manufacturing Co., Alma, Mich., which was organized some four years ago to build engines on the McVicker patents. This company has now a capitalized sotck of $300,000. The Canadian company is capitalized at $100,000, all paid up, and it is expected that within a year this will be increased.

  The company has four acres of ground situated on the C.P.R. and Grand Truck tracks, on which there is now a machine shop built, 48x83 feet, equipped with over $20,000 worth of the latest machine tools and equipment necesary for the manufacture of gas engines, besides which there are the storage building, 30x65 feet, the assembling shop, 30x100 feet, the office building, 22x32 feet, and the pattern and pattern storage building, 30x50 feet, all of which are now nearing completion. The company also have in prospect a finishing and testing shop, 30x100 feet, a foundry building, 50x100 feet, a traction engine machine shop, 50x100 feet, and a traction engine assembling and storage building, 50x100 feet.

  The company will at present build engines in sizes from 2 h.p. to 100 h.p., but will ultimately be building in sizes up to 1,000 h.p. In the Fall it is proposed to start the manufacture of double cylinder gasoline traction engines.

  A full description of the new plant of the Canadian McVicker Engine Co., together with illustrations, will appear in a subsequent issue of Canadian Machinery.

• 1907—January 1907 Canadian Machinery and Manufacturing News, quotes J. R. Golden, general manager and secretary of the Canadian McVicker Engine Co. in an article about a new tariff.
• 1907—February 1907 Canadian Machinery and Manufacturing News.

  Mr. Thos. R. London, B. Sc., of Toronto, has been appointed general manager and secretary of the Canadian McVicker Engine Co., of Galt, Ont. Mr. London's previous experience should admirably fit him for this position.

  In a news item about the rapid growth of Galt, McVicker Engine Company is mentioned as having built or added 9,548 square feet of manufacturing space.
• 1908—1908-01-04 Hardware and Metal.

  The Canadian McVicker Gas Engine Co., an industry established in Galt over two years ago, and which was largely backed by F. Euchson Brown, now a practicing lawyer in Toronto, has gone into liquidation. The company was established under promising auspices to manufacture a gas engine in Canada which had attained a wide reputation in the States for cheapness, simplicity and effectiveness. The working principle was novel and approved by engineers and there appeared to be a good field for the new engine on this side of the border. Mr. Brown took considerable interest in the new venture and invested a large sum of money, but subsequently withdrew from the control of the concern. Efforts to readjust affairs appear to have been ineffectual and an assignment followed the issuance of a writ. It is felt, however, that the business has a future, and that with readjustment it can be successfully carried on.

• 1909—We have seen references to a legal proceeding, Canadian McVicker Engine Co., 13 O.W.R., 916, but we have not been able to find an online copy that we can read.
• Denis Rouleau's Alma-McVicker engine page has links to catalogs and advertisements for Canadian McVicker.