Wabasso Cotton Company Limited was incorporated in Canada in 1907. The company changed its name to Wabasso Limited in 1967. The company changed its name to Wabasso Inc. in 1979 and continued under the Canada Business Corporations Act in that same year. The company changed its name to Tratex Textile Inc. in 1985, following the sale of its major assets to Dominion Textile Inc. Dominion Textile continued the bedding and towel product lines under the Wabasso name, and made Wabasso Canada Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary.

W. McNally & Co. was Montreal-based hardware and metal merchandise company dealing with builders', contractors', and gas works' supplies. It was founded by William McNally (1855-1912) in 1876. It was the largest business of its kind in the Dominium in the late 1800s and the early 1900s.

W. J. Gage and Company was a Toronto-based publishing, bookselling, and binding company. In 1874, William James Gage (1849-1921) became a partner of the publishing firm of Adam Miller & Co. After Mr. Miller died in 1875, Mr. Gage conducted the business with Mrs. Miller until her retirement in 1878. In 1879, the company changed its name to W. J. Gage & Co. In 1893, it was incorporated and became W. J. Gage & Co., Limited. The company owned a paper mill (Kinleith Paper Co. Ltd, St. Catharines) and manufactured its paper. In 1904, its large warehouse and factories were destroyed by fire. The firm moved to Spadina Avenue, from 1906 to 1958, and then to Scarborough. It continues as Gage Educational Publishing Company, a division of Nelson Education, a major Canadian publisher of school textbooks and educational reference books.