Lets all take a trip to Canada

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Since most of us on the forum are from America, the fruits of Canadian appliance brands are seldom realized. So, here are pictures of machines I pulled from Kijiji over the years.

Starting off with Admiral. A Whirlpool BOL to MOL brand. Here is a belt drive portable.

 

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Following the alphabet is Beaumark. Beaumark is a department store brand for The Bay. The Beaumark name replaced Baycrest sometime in the mid 80s I believe. Beaumark, Moffat, and McClary all shared the same control panel style. Moffat and McClary were available at The Bay, so Beaumark is mostly a MOL to TOL brand.

 

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Typically GE machines had a thicker control panel here in Canada. Ge marketed BOL, MOL, and TOL machines as Encore, Medallion, and Talisman, respectively.

 

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GE dishwashers looked like this. Ive never seen anything more TOL than the one I have, Ive never seen an electronic one like the 2800 up here.

 

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Inglis, the Canadian arm of Whirlpool, had a plant in Ontario that made all the Kenmore, WP, Inglis, Admiral, and any other WP brand.

Although late 80s, this machine demonstrates the constraints of bilingual language laws in Canada. Some brands, like GE and WP, decided symbols were the best way to not clutter up a panel with two languages.

 

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Carrying on with symbols, Inglis used the bulbous control panel WP used in the US during the 80s, we saw it in the 70s.

 

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Waiting for the Vikings.

 

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Here are two different machine styles for Kenmore in Canada. Again, on the left with the dryer, you see they labeled it 1, 2, 3 for different cycles and had a chart on the side to decipher it from whichever language you use. The dryer would be from the late 70s, with the washer being from the early 80s. That washer design remained in place for most of the 80s.

 

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Here is the last ever iteration of the BD line. These would be very very late 80s to early 90s. Notice the wide, reversible door on the dryer which originally surfaced in the mid 80s in Canada. The washer also will have a unique BLACK and speckled white basket.

Interesting to note, Kenmore in Canada wasnt as feature laden. The most TOL machine you could get, according to my research, has a DA agi and an extra rinse selector with 8 programs. Although, most of the MOL machines in Canada had variable water level, 5 wash rinse temps, and a DA agi.

 

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Here is what the FIRST DD machines in Canada looked like from Kenmore. Very early 90s. Timer selection on the washer didnt have time increments, just a point and start!

 

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Just before NAFTA introduced us to the DD washer Kenmore sold in the late 90s up until the late 2000s, this was what we had. Handsome machines.

 

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Througout the 80s, Kenmore dishwashers looked like this, mimicking the woodgrain on the washer and dryers. These are powerclean machines.

 

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Oh, and one last one from the 70s! Again, note the timer labeling and the solid grey basket.

 

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McClary was a GE rebrand, responsible for most one-dial wonders and exclusively BOL machines in Canada.

 

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Moffat, another GE rebrand, or should I say Camco in Canada!? Is a BOL to MOL provider. Wouldnt you agree these are the most handsome panels you can get on a GE? McClary and Moffat are all rim-flo machines.

Interesting note here is, on all GE, Beaumark, Viking, and Moffat machines, two speed machine with a three speed selection knob, five wash/rinse temps, variable water level, and a timer like one pictured are the MOST common in Canada. Im beginning to think GE only sent two types of timers to Canada, one like the above and a one-dial wonder.

 

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Viking, the house brand for Eatons (a competitor to The Bay), used Westinghouse junk-washers for their dishwashers until the early 80s.

 

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Viking used GE to provide their washers, but unlike every other GE machine in Canada, this one was a true filter flo. All the rest, with the exception of GE, are rim-flos.

A special note for GE, GE didnt make GE in Canada. Cameco made GE, and any other GE like machine just like Whirlpool didnt make WP in Canada, Inglis did. Pre NAFTA nightmare.

Like I said, after all the years Ive spent looking to collect actual machines, general Kijiji browsing, and research, it seems Canada from all brands wasnt a place to experiment with lavish features. Rather, Canada was provided with loads and loads of MOL machines.

Share with us some of your Canadian machines!

 

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Hi Kevin, that's a thread I like!

Here are a few of my Canadian machines.

 

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The GE filter flo in your reply 2 and the Kenmore dryer in reply 8 are the identical machines we bought back in the 80's and are still using today although the washer is "semi-retired" but working perfectly since I got that free  WP Duet a couple of months ago..    

 

Phil.. if you're down this way again maybe you could take my GE back with you.  Provided the Duet doesn't break beforehand  LOL.