The Mastercraft brand is used by the Canadian Tire Corporation (established in 1913), a chain of retail stores and automotive service centres. The stores sell everything from tires to waffle irons to low-priced woodworking and metalworking machines. Nowadays the tools are all imports but at one time they found makers in North America, including

• Sutton Tool & Die Manufacturing, Ltd.
• Wilson Brass & Aluminum Foundries, Ltd.
• Callander Foundry (Beaver Power Tools)
• Henry Power Tools, Ltd. (Craftmaster)
• National Woodenware Co. (National Power Tools).

This web site's focus is restricted to woodworking machinery, metalworking machinery, engines, motors, vises and handheld power tools that were made in North America, Great Britain or Sweden. Please do not upload pictures of any other Mastercraft products. Also, we cannot answer any inquiries related to those other products.

Canadian Tire Catalogs

Beginning in 1926, Canadian Tire published road maps with a price list on the other side. The first English book-format catalog was published in 1933. The first French edition was published in 1957.

Information Sources

• A small Mastercraft table saw is identified as a model made by Sutton Tool & Die Manufacturing, Ltd. of Brantford.
• A small Mastercraft bandsaw is identified as made by Sprunger Brothers, Inc. of Indiana.
• A 10" Mastercraft radial arm saw was made by McGraw-Edison Co.
• A 1949 Canadian Tire catalog features a line of Mastercraft woodworking machines, including a scrollsaw that was made by Wilson Brass & Aluminum Foundries, Ltd. of Toronto. Thanks to Ray Muttart for providing us with a copy of the relevant pages of this catalog.