I've never even heard of Mother's Pizza and Robin's Donuts, but by "Consumers" I presume you mean Consumers Distributing. They went out of business because their supply chain was crap, and whenever I tried to buy anything they just never had it in stock. Ever.
Beaver Lumber was owned by Molson. They divested that non-core business and sold to Home Hardware.
We were never going to become a manufacturing powerhouse: we're too sparsely populated. And most manufacturing went to Asia anyway, NAFTA be damned.
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