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DURING HIS FIRST VISIT TO A RADIO COMMUNICATIONS MANUFACTURING PLANT IN CANADA, THE GOV- ERNOR GENERAL, THE EARL OF ATHLONE, (CENTER) STOPPED TO INSPECT THE WORK OF ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES IN RCA VICTOR COMPANY LIMITED'S MONTREAL FACTORY. With RCA-North of the Border ORIGINAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING OF RADIO EQUIPMENT FOR CANADA'S ARMED FORCES CONTRIBUTE TO WAR EFFORT—PRODUCTION FACILITIES IN MONTREAL EXPAND By A. Usher Advertising Manager, RCA Victor Co. Limited, Montreal, Canada. NORTH of the border, in the manufacturing section of Montreal, Canada's largest city, radio engineers, draughtsmen, lab- oratory assistants and office and factory workers in the modern plants of RCA Victor Company Limited, are working overtime—de- signing, developing and manufac- turing radio communications eiiuip- ment for the navies, armies and air forces of Canada and her sister na- tions in the British Commonwealth, and for other United Nations. When Canada went to war, in September, 1939, it had already as- sembled a staff of technicians and radio communication experts that would give the young Dominion a strong right arm in the radio field. The complete story of its achieve- ments may not be told until after the war is won—but already it makes a remarkable wartime chap- ter that will thrill future genera- tions of Canada. The wartime achievements of RCA Victor Company Limited, and the phenomenal growth of the Ca- nadian company until it has become the most important radio engineer- ing and manufacturing organiza- tion in the Dominion of Canada, really began in 1936. three years before Hitler launched World War II by marching into Poland. That year RCA Victor, manufacturer of jihonographs. records and radio re- ceivers for domestic use, concluded what is now known in the company as the pre-expansion era and began its remarkable career in radio en- gineering and production. The new policy, developed at a time when few perceived the ap- proaching war clouds and the dan- ger to Canada and a free world of a Nazi-ridden Germany, was based on the important part that radio com- munications would play when those war clouds finally burst. Immediate steps were taken to anticipate the needs of Canada, not only for radio equipment and the facilities to manufacture it, but also for the engineering skills, backed by imagination and vision in the radio communications field. It was a great ambition, but the company was determined that in this vital new field of modern war- fare Canada would stand on its own feet and be self-sufficient. Conse- quently there began a period of company expansion, followed by re- cruiting of engineers and techni- cians, followed again by a general staff expansion and entry into seri- ous production and development work in radio. 20 RADIO age;