Over 100 Years of Excellence in Canada
2000s
Year
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Event
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| 2022 | PwC Canada launches its Trust Roadmap |
| 2021 | PwC Canada acquires cybersecurity consulting firm Avaleris Inc. |
| 2021 | PwC announces new strategy: The New Equation |
| 2021 | Nicolas Marcoux re-elected for a second term as PwC Canada’s CEO |
| 2021 | PwC Canada appoints four external directors to join its board |
| 2018 | Nicolas Marcoux elected CEO and Senior Partner of PwC Canada |
| 2014 | PwC acquires Booz & Company (Strategy&) |
| 2011 | Bill McFarland elected CEO and Senior Partner of PwC Canada |
| 2010 | Our brand name is shortened to PwC, along with a new visual identity |
| 2007 |
One hundred years young |
| 2005 | Chris Clark elected CEO and Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers |
| 2001 | Kevin Dancey elected Canadian CEO and Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers |
| 2000 | PricewaterhouseCoopers merges with Sullivan & Lewis in St. John’s |
1990s
Year |
Event |
|---|---|
| 1998 |
PricewaterhouseCoopers formed on July 1; Tom O’Neill becomes Chief Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers; David Smith becomes Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers |
| 1997 | David Smith elected Chairman of Coopers & Lybrand; Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand announce plans for integration |
| 1996 | Tom O’Neill becomes Chairman of the Executive Committee of Price Waterhouse |
| 1992 | Hugh Bolton becomes Chairman and Chief Executive Partner of Coopers & Lybrand |
| 1990 | Bob Brown becomes Senior Partner and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Price Waterhouse; Laventhol & Horvath merges with Price Waterhouse |
1998 — David W. Smith (left) and Tom C. O'Neill (right) combine to lead the newly-formed PwC.
1980s
Year |
Event |
|---|---|
| 1986 |
Ken Stevenson becomes Chairman and Chief Executive Partner of Coopers & Lybrand |
| 1985 | Bill Broadhurst becomes Senior Partner and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Price Waterhouse |
| 1982 | Coopers & Lybrand goes coast-to-coast when Baird and Baird of St. John’s and Roberts Denson & Co. of Victoria merge with it; Price Waterhouse opens Calgary South office; Brochu, Dutil & Associés of Québec City merges with Price Waterhouse |
| 1981 | Mississauga, Ontario, branch of Coopers & Lybrand opens; Price Waterhouse merges with Jarrett, Gould & Elliott, a national accounting firm with seven offices; Price Waterhouse merges with Erickson, Lee, Macdonald & Co. of Hamilton, Ontario |
| 1980 | Price Waterhouse opens a Scarborough, Ontario, office |
1980 — David Higginbotham and Harry Simpson.
1970s
Year |
Event |
|---|---|
| 1978 | North York, Ontario, office of Coopers & Lybrand opens |
| 1977 | Price Waterhouse merges with Tremblay, Rochette et Associés in Québec City; Price Waterhouse opens in Mississauga, Ontario |
| 1975 | David Higginbotham becomes Senior Partner and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Price Waterhouse; Price Waterhouse establishes a national office in Toronto |
| 1974 | Price Waterhouse opens in Kitchener, Ontario |
| 1973 | Coopers & Lybrand name replaces McDonald, Currie; Warren Chippindale becomes Chairman of Coopers & Lybrand |
| 1971 | Warren Chippindale becomes Chairman and Managing Partner of McDonald, Currie |
| 1970 | Price Waterhouse computerizes data process and control reporting |
1976 — Bill Broadhurst and Pam Jermey in 1976.
1960s
Year |
Event |
|---|---|
| 1969 | Price Waterhouse office opens in Québec City; Saskatoon office of McDonald, Currie opens; Kitchener, Ontario, firm of Tailby & Tailby merges with McDonald, Currie |
| 1968 | Laird Watt becomes Senior Partner and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Price Waterhouse; London, Ontario, office of Price Waterhouseopens; Price Waterhouse merges with Fewster, Kirkpatrick, MacDonald & Ayers in Saskatoon; McDonald, Currie signs formal association with Baird & Baird of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador (the firms merge in 1985) |
| 1967 | Campbell Leach becomes Chairman of McDonald, Currie; Centennial of Canada; McDonald, Currie revises the partnership agreement and provides for election of a management committee |
| 1966 | Evan E. Own and Harold D. Pringle merge their practices with McDonald, Currie; Watt, Gower, Ogilvie & Co. of Edmonton merge with McDonald, Currie; Harrison & Osborne of Winnipeg merge with Price Waterhouse |
| 1965 | Price Waterhouse Montréal office merges with Creak, Cushing & Hodgson; Pearson, Matthews and Young merges with McDonald, Currie; R. L. Bamford & Co. in Saskatchewan joins McDonald, Currie; Beaton, Mathieson & Co. in Calgary merges with McDonald, Currie |
| 1964 | Price Waterhouse merges with Bailey, Monteith, Holms & Co. in Vancouver; London, Ontario, firm of Cornish Mitchell & Co. merges with McDonald, Currie; Lawrence W. Pastorius merges his Windsor, Ontario, practice with McDonald, Currie; McDonald, Currie merges with Reynolds, Andersen & Co. in Vancouver |
| 1963 | McDonald, Currie partnership agreement is rewritten so that the managing partners become the Management Committee |
| 1962 | Calgary partnership of Henderson, Waines and Anderson joins Price Waterhouse |
| 1961 | Toronto office of Price Waterhouse merges with A. D. Downie & Co.; McDonald, Currie opens in a home office in Sept-Îles, Québec; Ronald, Griggs & Co. amalgamates with McDonald, Currie in Winnipeg |
| 1960 | John Church becomes Senior Partner and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Price Waterhouse |
1960s — Price Waterhouse Senior Partner and Chairman of the Executive Committee from 1968-75, M. Laird Watt (left).
1950s
Year |
Event |
|---|---|
| 1959 | Price Waterhouse merges with Geddes, Knebel and Beaton in Edmonton |
| 1958 | Harrison Hayes becomes Chairman of McDonald, Currie; Price Waterhouse merges with William Gray & Co. in Winnipeg; Halifax office of McDonald,Currie opens; George Currie retires to run the Bowaters organization in North America |
| 1957 | McDonald, Currie merges with Cooper Brothers & Co. and Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery to form Coopers & Lybrand |
| 1956 | Laird, Sprague merges with McDonald, Currie in Winnipeg; Calgary office of McDonald, Currie opens in Rod Whitehead’s home; the telephone booth at the end of the street serves as the company phone |
| 1955 | Price Waterhouse amalgamates with Winnipeg firm of Thornton, Milne & Campbell; Mitchell, Krauel merge with McDonald, Currie and the firm opens in Winnipeg and Kitchener |
| 1954 | Price Waterhouse opens in Halifax |
| 1953 | Price Waterhouse merges with Haskell, Elderkin & Co. in Montréal |
| 1952 | John Church becomes Senior Partner of Price Waterhouse; Harold Herington becomes Chairman of the Executive Committee of Price Waterhouse; Edmonton office of McDonald, Currie opens |
| 1951 | Price Waterhouse opens in Hamilton, Ontario; McDonald, Currie starts consulting practice |
| 1950 | Richardson, Elwell, Parish & Co. merges with McDonald, Currie; A. H. Rathie & Co. in Vancouver merges with McDonald, Currie |
1958 — George Currie, second from left, and partners gather at a firm dinner.
1940s
Year |
Event |
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| 1948 | McDonald, Currie opens in Vancouver, the firm’s first office west of Toronto |
| 1947 | Price Waterhouse opens in Ottawa; McDonald, Currie merges with J. P. Langley & Co.; arrangement made to act as agent for referred business from Coopers Brothers & Co. in the U.K. |
| 1946 | George Currie becomes Chairman of McDonald, Currie; Henry Gordon Norman becomes Senior Partner of Price Waterhouse; J. W. F. Neill, PriceWaterhouse’s US representative, withdraws from Canadian partnership and is not replaced, thereby emphasizing the Canadian nature of the practice |
| 1945 | Second World War ends; Price Waterhouse & Co. (international firm) is formally established July 1, 1945; Eunice C. Bancroft named first female partner at McDonald, Currie; Saint John, New Brunswick, office of McDonald, Currie opens |
| 1942 | Price Waterhouse nominates first Executive Committee to provide general supervision and coordination of the practice; McDonald, Currie opens in Sherbrooke, Québec |
| 1941 | Price Waterhouse office opens in Windsor, Ontario |
1940s — Price Waterhouse Canada founding partners Alexander B. Brodie (second from left) and Donald McKenzie McClelland (far right).
1930s
Year |
Event |
|---|---|
| 1939 | Donald McKenzie McClelland becomes Senior Partner of Price Waterhouse; Second World War begins |
| 1935 | Ken Carter, who would later head the Royal Commission on Taxation, opens the Toronto office of McDonald, Currie; McDonald, Currie establishes an office in Rimouski, Québec |
| 1934 | Ottawa office of McDonald, Currie opens |
| 1930 | Charlotte Howell of McDonald, Currie’s Montréal office becomes the first female CA in Québec |
1920s
Year |
Event |
|---|---|
| 1929 | The Great Depression begins; Winnipeg Price Waterhouse office amalgamates with accounting firm John Scott & Co., thereby creating a presence in Calgary |
| 1924 | Price Waterhouse makes arrangements for the separation of the U.S. and Canadian firms |
| 1922 | McDonald, Currie opens its first branch office in Québec City |
| 1920 | Canadian firm receives the right to use the name Price Waterhouse & Co.; the name McDonald, Currie & Co., predecessor firm to Coopers & Lybrand, is officially adopted |
1900s-1910s
Year |
Event |
|---|---|
| 1917 | The Income War Tax introduced as a temporary measure to help fund the Canadian war effort |
| 1914 | First World War begins; first Canadian Price Waterhouse partnership is established by deeds dated June 30, 1914 |
| 1912 | Price Waterhouse offices established in Winnipeg and Vancouver |
| 1911 | Alexander Bertram Brodie becomes Senior Partner of Price Waterhouse; George Currie joins his cousin George McDonald |
| 1910 | George McDonald becomes Chairman of McDonald, Currie; George McDonald starts his accounting practice on St. James Street in Montréal; second Price Waterhouse office opens in Toronto |
| 1907 | First Canadian office of Price Waterhouse opens in Montréal; Roderick Edward Moore managed all Canadian operations from the New York office |
1910s — Coopers & Lybrand Canada founders George S. Currie (left) and George C. McDonald (right).
1800s
Year |
Event |
|---|---|
| 1898 | Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery launch in North America |
| 1865 | Samuel Price partners with William Holyland and Edwin Waterhouse |
| 1854 | William Cooper establishes firm in U.K. |
| 1849 | Samuel Lowe Price creates firm in U.K. |
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