Otis Fensom

Otis-Fensom Elevator Company
Year established	1905
Year of closure	1949
Status	Defunct
Manufactures	Elevators and moving walks
Headquarters	50 Bay Street, Toronto, ON, Canada
Service locations	Canada
Preceded by	Fensom Elevator Works
Succeeded by	Otis Elevator Company Limited (Canada)
Subsidiary of	Otis Elevator Company

Otis-Fensom Elevator Company was a Canadian elevator company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which was a regional operations company of Otis Elevator Company in Canada. It was a result of a merging between Fensom Elevator Works and Otis Elevator Company in 1905. Since 1949, all Otis products sold in Canada are just branded "Otis", this means the end of the "Otis-Fensom" brand.

History

The history of Otis-Fensom started out as John Fensom Iron Works in Toronto, which was founded in 1867 by John Fensom. In 1882, the company changed name to Fensom Elevator Works. In 1905, Otis Elevator Company merged with Fensom after Otis opened a factory in Hamilton, ON three years earlier as an attempt to expand its business to the Canadian elevator industry. From there, the company became Otis-Fensom Elevator Co. and would install elevators and escalators in Canada under the Otis-Fensom name. In September 1949, the Fensom name was dropped and the company became simply Otis.

Notable installations in Canada

Ontario

• Ontario Heritage Trust, Toronto (1908)
• 10 Adelaide Street East, Toronto (1908)
• Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre, Toronto (1913)
• The Albany Club, Toronto
• 266/268 King Street West, Toronto
• Glengrove Suites, Toronto
• 40 Spadina Avenue, Toronto
• 2 College Street, Toronto (1892, Fensom manually controlled elevator)
• Kingsmill's Department Store, London (1931)
• University of Windsor - Memorial Hall, Windsor

Quebec

• Molson Bank Building, Montreal
• 360 Victoria Avenue, Montreal
• 360 St. Jacques, Montreal (modernized)
• Fairmont Le Chateau, Montebello

Other provinces

• Sylvia Hotel, Vancouver, BC (modernized by Montgomery)
• Medical Arts Building, Vancouver, BC
• Marine Building, Vancouver, BC
• Chilliwack General Hospital, Chilliwack, BC
• Calgary Public Building, Calgary, AB

Trivia

• Otis-Fensom's building was located on 50 Bay Street in Toronto, Ontario. The building, however, has been demolished to make way for Royal Bank Plaza which was completed in the late 1970s. The factory was located in Hamilton, Ontario, and was the largest elevator manufacturing plant in the world during its time. As of 2018, a portion of the original factory building is still standing.

External links

• Otis Fensom Elevator Co. Building the North American Elevator Company - Elevator Scene
• Canadian Otis Elevator Company - Worker's City