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    The Dominion Textile Inc. or Domtex was a Canadian textile manufacturer that was founded in 1905 and closed in 1998 when its remains were purchased by...
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    city's economy was dominated by the textile industry, most notably by a cotton mill operated by Dominion Textile. It was only in the 1960s and the 1970s...
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    rock phosphate. In the year 1995 RSWM partnered with Canadian company Dominion Textile for manufacturing high value added Denim. In 1997, the company setup...
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    Montreal Stock Exchange led to the creation of major corporations like Dominion Textile and Montreal Light, Heat & Power. At that time, many major financial...
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    July 1966 in the explosion of the bomb he had placed himself at the Dominion Textile factory in Montreal. Vallières received a life sentence for the deaths...
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    of the Polymer Group, which acquired another Canadian institution, Dominion Textile. It had been a member of the International Association of Department...
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  • time in office was marked by significant labour strikes, such as the Dominion Textile in Valleyfield in 1946, the Asbestos Strike in Estrie, and the Murdochville...
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  • Life, Alcan, Royal Trust, Bell Canada, General Electric, DuPont and Dominion Textiles. The firm was also counsel to the Prince of Wales. On March 1, 2000...
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  • Nova Scotia Cotton Manufacturing Company (category Defunct textile companies of Canada)
    the Dominion Cotton Mills Company of Montreal, the first purchase in a string of acquisitions by the Montreal firm which became Dominion Textile. The...
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  • companies through his life. He also served as the president of the Dominion Textile Company. David was born February 20, 1846, in Glasgow, Scotland. His...
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  • Jerry Zucker (businessman) (category American textile industry businesspeople)
    CEO of the Polymer Group at the time it acquired the Montreal-based Dominion Textile Company in 1997; he resigned from Polymer Group in 2003. In 2006, he...
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    1946 Montreal Cottons strike (category United Textile Workers of America)
    larger textile strike movement which included one of Dominion Textile's mills located within Montreal. The strikes were organized by the Textile Workers...
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    The Dominion of India, officially the Union of India, was an independent dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations existing between 15 August 1947...
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    1916–present Memphrémagog Dam/hydroelectric center (also known as Dominion Textile) Magog 1920–present Paton Dam/hydroelectric center Sherbrooke 1927–present...
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    government's intervention during strikes. This was the case with the Dominion Textile strike in August 1937 and another one in a shipyard in Sorel. Duplessis...
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    The Dominion of New England in America (1686–1689) was an administrative union of English colonies covering all of New England and the Mid-Atlantic Colonies...
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  • dying en route to the hospital. On May 22, a bomb explodes at the Dominion Textile in Drummondville. On June 3, a bomb explodes at Centre Paul-Sauvé during...
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  • Painters". Besides painting, she created a series of large murals for the Dominion Textile Company. Her work is included in the collections of the Musée national...
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  • The textile industry is Pakistan's largest manufacturing sector, employing nearly 25 million people. As the eighth largest exporter of textile commodities...
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  • founded the Standard Shirt Company, organized Dominion Textile in 1904, and in 1909 became president of Dominion Glass Company Limited, which was later known...
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  • du Saint-Laurent by Amelia Beers (Warnock) Garvin 1919 — Cotton by Dominion Textile Company Limited, Montreal The skeleton of La Corriveau, in her iron...
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    Trust Company, Bank of Montreal, Montreal Light, Heat & Power Company, Dominion Textile Company, Limited, and others. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada...
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  • notable Canadian venture in this field was Dominion Textile. The company had its roots in the formation of the Dominion Cotton Mills Company in Montreal in 1880...
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    experiencing a difficult time economically as it lost its largest employer, Dominion Textiles and in 1990 the Canadian National Railway ceased to operate. Crosby...
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    organized into a union by Rowley and Parent, engaged in a strike against Dominion Textile in Valleyfield and Montréal. These activities engendered a strong reaction...
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  • Dongri due to this genre of garment monolithically being manufactured from textile sectors within the confines of the city. The modern, colonial history of...
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    diversify. Although the great majority of firms were connected to the textile industry, exceptions included the Portuguese Vice-Consulate from 1896 to...
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    the century-old industrial factories and warehouses, like that of Dominion Textiles (5524 Saint-Patrick, now Complexe Dompark) & Simmons Bedding Company...
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    Company, the Allan Line, the Bank of British North America, Molson Bank, Dominion Textile, Hugh Allan's Merchant's Bank and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Campbell...
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    been referred to as the Manchester of Pakistan because of its extensive textile industry. As of 2013[update], the GDP of Faisalabad was estimated at $43 billion...
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