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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

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trlvn said:
Part of it is just that the population of ON is about 3X greater than that of either AB or BC. We have more machines offered but also have more buyers ready to pounce on a deal!

Craig
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You also had more machine tool manufacturers and manufacturing in general than out this way. I am so jealous of all the standard modern machines out your way. I would sell my south bends in a heartbeat if I could replace them with some Canadian iron.
 
Tom Kitta said:
ON is also part of the old rust belt - machining heart of Canada. Thus a lot of smoking deals in old machines.
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That's a better way to say it.

I was going to say something more along the lines of Toronto area alone has more people in it than the rest of Canada combined! JK, but also not far from the truth.

Also, Windsor was once known as the Tool and Die capital of the world - not just Canada. As I mentioned before - lots of self made millionaires came out of that. It lasted until the far east decided to put extreme efforts forward to claim that title. Kitchener Waterloo area was not far behind.
 
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