Bournival & Cie. (or Bournival & Co.) seems to have been primarily a machinery reseller. They often did not identify the makers of the machines they sold and so we are not certain whether or not Bournival actually manufactured machinery themselves.
Bournival ad from June 1914 "Canadian Builder and Carpenter", featuring a machine made by Sidney Tool Co.
Information Sources
- Ads in 1913 and 1914 Canadian Builder and Carpenter featuring machines from Sidney and Parks.
- 2005 listing on eBay for "Catalogue No. 29 / Machines a Bois et Accessoires / BOURNIVAL & CIE / 336-340 rue Notre-Dame est Montréal"
- Google has an online copy of the 1914 Sessional Papers of the Canadian Parliament, v.48 no.24 1914, including a tidbit about this company:
Incorporated August 7,1912: — — — — — — — —
Amount of capital stock, $50,000
Number of shares, 500.—Amount of each share, $100.
Corporate members.—Aurèle Sabourin, accountant; Claude Beauchamp, importer; Hector Aubrey, physician; Cléophas Dignard, manufacturer, all of Montreal; and...