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| C. D’Amours Contracting Ltd. | | | C. D’Amours Contracting Ltd.’s diverse resumé of work includes secondary road building, excavation, land clearing, right-of-way clearing, demolition of buildings, hauling tree seedlings across Northern Ontario, construction of a landfill site, providing instruction in heavy equipment operation and mechanical harvesting. | | |
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| However, the primary success of C. D'Amours Contracting Ltd. has been in their work as logging contractors, managing stump-to-dump operations in Northern Ontario.Although now a large regional operation boasting sales in the millions, C. D’Amours Contracting Ltd. began with two men and a skidder. Gaston D’Amours, a 15-year veteran of woodlands operations, saw big changes in the bush. He and his son Claude realized modernization was driving huge vehicles into the wilderness - equipment that could do the work of 25 men with chainsaws.They started simply, renting one “C5 Treefarmer” cable skidder. While their operation was small, the father-son team knew that with hard work, success was within reach. Traveling hundreds of kilometers a day, hauling fuel in the trunk of their car, and working every day of the year except Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, the D’Amours dug in.
The work was hard, but they had a formula: always finish on time; always work harder than the competition; repeat customers make more repeat customers; and always be open to change and opportunities. |
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| | | At times, they used recycled mainline on the skidder, and sometimes they went without pay, but their formula began to pay off.In 1982, they got into site preparation, and soon they were bidding on jobs and managing contracts from one end of Northern Ontario to the other.
Claude then saw a market for general contracting. Their first timber license saw C. D’Amours Contracting Ltd with a 20,000 cubic metre per year limit.
He bought his father’s share in 1989 and incorporated the company. During the following years, the company went from cutting 20,000 cubic metres to cutting approximately 700,000 cubic metres. | | |
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| | Since 1978, the company has expanded its interests to include the sale of aggregate resources from two, wholly-owned sand and gravel pits, and the rental and leasing of equipment from its fleet of more than 100 machines. Claude D’Amours also operates a gas bar and is in partnership with a machine shop. C. D’Amours Contracting Ltd. is licensed by the Ministry of Transportation for heavy specialized moves, and has the signing authority of the Ministry of Skill and Development to offer certified training for mechanical harvesting, cut-and-skid, and material handling. The company is pre-qualified by the Ministry of Transportation for highway maintenance, roadwork and construction and is pre-qualified by Ontario Hydro for new and current right-of-way clearing and under-brushing. |
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