In January, 1906, The Simonds Mfg. Co. purchased The Canada Saw Co. of Montreal, Quebec for $250,000. The business was renamed Simonds Canada Saw Co., headquartered in an all-new saw-making factory at the intersection of St. Remi and Acorn Streets. The company also operated factories in Ottawa and Toronto, Ontario as well as St. John, New Brunswick. Canada Saw itself started in 1904 when The James Robertson Saw Co. (founded in 1868) and the Ottawa Saw Co. (founded in 1893) merged. Canada Saw had 125 employees, all of whom were retained in the new company.
The business proved quite successful, growing steadily over the years. In fact, the Montreal plant underwent many expansions, including major expansions in 1907 and 1914. Another major expansion occurred in 1948, when the factory added hacksaw blades and bandsaw blades to circular saws, wide bands and cross-cut saws it had made up to this point.
Following on the success of the Intervale Road plant and a number of modern new branch house facilities, Simonds Canada started construction on a new 112,000 square foot one story, controlled conditions plant in late 1959 (unlike the famous Fitchburg plant, the new plant did have some windows). The new plant was constructed at a cost of $1,500,000, and was located in suburban Granby, Quebec, about an hour east of Montreal.
Simonds Canada closed the outdated Montreal facility and moved to this new Granby facility in June of 1960, transferring 200 employees and their families to the Granby area. The total cost of this move was $300,000. The old Montreal facility was sold off in November. The Granby plant produced the majority of Simonds products sold in Canada until it was closed in 1988 and production consolidated into the Fitchburg facility.