Grant Acetylene Generator 1903 stock certificate-lighting-Ontario Canada indians

Description

Up for auction is a very rare stock certificate from The Grant Acetylene Generator Co., Limited. Issued 1903.
A patent was issued to William Albert Grant for the Acetylene Generator only a couple of months before this certificate was issued.
A mention in the Dominion of Canada Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs for the year ended June 30,1903 by the Coqualeetza Industrial Institute, B.C., reports that “Our building is heated by means of the Smead-Dowd system of hot-air furnaces, of which we have two. For lighting we are still dependent upon coal oil, but in view of recent improvements in acetylene gas plants, accepted as absolutely safe by the boards of underwriters, and perhaps especially the plant of the Grant Acetylene Generator Company, of St. Thomas Ont., we are about decided to install this system of lighting, and shall be pleased to dispense with the troublesome and inferior, if not dangerous, lighting with coal oil.”
Condition is Fine-Very Fine. Vertical & horizontal folds with a fold tear at bottom.
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