Westinghouse Industrial: An Abandoned Factory With a Dark Past | 4K Video

In 1912, the Westinghouse Company built a foundry and lamp-manufacturing plant here on this site, they made iron castings there until WWI, when the building was used as a barracks for the military.

The 1930s saw the beginning of an extremely successful venture for Westinghouse with the manufacturing of household appliances.

The company continued to expand and produce during the 1940s and '50s. During WWII, Westinghouse made gun barrels and produced artillery shells for the armed forces, and participated in the research and development of a uranium derivative for use in atomic bombs.

In the 1970s, the Westinghouse factory became the property of Camco, joining plants in Montreal, Weston, London, and Orangeville. With the Westinghouse acquisition, Camco became the largest manufacturer of major appliances in Canada, holding 30% of the Canadian market. The company began by investing more than $1 million dollars in new equipment for the plant, in order to be able to manufacture parts that would otherwise have to be imported.

In 1984, a worker at the plant died after being hit in the chest by a metal bar; the first and only death at the plant.

Camco continued to operate on the property and saw profits at the plant rise until the late 1980's, when things began to fall apart. The company reacted slowly to sluggish sales from the plant, which led to a surplus of inventory. While Camco managed to survive for another 15 years, ultimately it was shut down in December of 2004 as it could no longer compete with newer manufacturing centers.

It was announced in December of 2003 that Camco would be ceasing operations at the plant and that it would be closing, ending many decades of production and jobs at the site.

Back in 2010, the property was being considered as a site to build a stadium for the PanAm games, but this never came to be.

As recently as around 2016, the factory was being used as a metal recycling plant

In February 2020, police responded to calls of a body that was found inside the factory. It was the body of a scrapper who was attempting to remove copper from an area where there was live power.

The property, I’ve been told, was purchased years ago by the local university and would be incorporated into their large-scale Innovation Park concept on the surrounding lands. The plans are to convert this into a multi-use space, laboratory and research labs for global pandemic and biological threats, as well as a community center.

The proposed lab and research center would feature 300,000 square feet of research and meeting space as well as amenities from dining and more. Described by someone involved as the equivalent of a 30 storey skyscraper, but horizontal.

The original plans for this innovation park stated that it would be operational by December 2024, but seeing as we are now in November 2024, I think it’s safe to assume that there have been unexpected delays!

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