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History
mapimageCansel was founded in 1966, as Canadian Survey Equipment Ltd., by Stan Jackson and Albert Weiss. With no customers and few contracts in the Vancouver market, they rented a shop in Burnaby, BC, bought a lathe for $2,000 and first made their mark in the business by repairing equipment faster than anyone else. The young company managed to generate about $100 in total revenues in its first month of business.


Cansel expanded quickly from only a repair shop to a distributor of survey equipment. In 1978, Cansel began its expansion beyond BC by opening an office in Calgary, then a year later in Edmonton. In the early 1980s, Cansel expanded operations rapidly in Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec. A maritime location was added in the 1990s, making Cansel a true coast-to-coast operation.

 

Cansel is now the largest distributor of land-based positioning systems in North America and a market leader, with twelve locations across Canada and over 150 employees. The company name was legally changed to Cansel Survey Equipment Inc. in 2002.
 
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