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During the same period, with Crawford Gordon as president, A. V.

Roe Canada Ltd. purchased a number of companies, including Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation, Canada Car and Foundry ( 1957 ), and Canadian Steel Improvement.

By 1958, A. V. Roe Canada Ltd. was an industrial giant with over 50, 000 employees in a far-flung empire of 44 companies involved in coal mining, steel making, railway rolling stock, aircraft and aero-engine manufacturing, as well as computers and electronics.

In 1956 the companies generated 45 % of the revenue of the Hawker Siddeley Group.

In 1958, annual sales revenue was approximately $ 450 million, ranking A. V.

Roe Canada as the third largest corporation in Canada by capitalization.

By the time of the cancellation of the Arrow and Iroquois, aircraft-related production amounted to approximately 40 % of the company's activities with 60 % industrial and commercial.