In business by 1946, Alco Machine Works, Ltd. of Edmonton manufactured production planers for making dimensional lumber. They seem to have disappeared by the late 1970s.
Information Sources
- "Alco" was mentioned in passing in the 1980 Chandler W. Jones book Planers, Matchers and Moulders in America as a company that made planers and/or matchers during the short-lived boom for those machines after WWII.
- A 1973 issue of Canada Lumberman and Woodworker provides the complete company name and location. "Alco planer is used to dress high grade softwoods and hardwoods into dimensional lumber..."
- A search of Google Books found data points spanning 1946 through to the mid-1970s.