Home About Us Board of Directors Nomination Criteria Nomination Form Contact Us Wendy B. McDonald Chairman and CEO, BC Bearing Engineers Ltd. Burnaby, BC You must have Windows Media 9 or above to see the video above. Click here to download the free player. A native of British Columbia, Wendy McDonald began her business career when her husband's untimely death in 1950 thrust her into the day-to-day management of a fledgling machine shop. This was a mandate that she assumed with gusto. Swimming against a current of chauvinism that dominated industry, she expanded the business while also raising 10 children. Under her leadership, B.C. Bearing Engineers Ltd. became Canada's largest distributor of bearing and power transmission products. A key supplier to the mining industry, her company operates on three continents and employs more than 500 people Wendy Burdon McDonald has received honorary doctorates from Simon Fraser University and BIT. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 1997. She was recognized as Canadian Businesswoman of the Year in 1982, and as Leading Woman Entrepreneur of the World in 1998. In 2000 she was inducted into the Sales and Marketing Executives International" Academy of Achievement" Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. In 2006 she has received the RBC Canadian Woman Entrepreneur Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Influential Women in Business Awards, the Lifetime Achievement PEAK Award at Women in Finance and most recently The Order of British Columbia. Induction Category: Leadership Home | About Us | Board of Directors | Nomination Criteria | Nomination Form | Contact Us © Canadian Manufacturing Hall of Fame: 2000 Talbot Road W.- Box 43, Windsor, ON N9A 6S4 Phone: 519-972-2382 - Fax: 519-972-2733 - E-mail info@cmhof.ca Premier Sponsors: Cocktail Sponsor:

Announcing the 2009 Canadian Manufacturing Hall of Fame Inductees: (click the names below for their biographies) John L. Bragg Oxford Frozen Foods Ltd. Oxford, Nova Scotia Steve F. Krar Educator, Trainer, Author Welland, Ontario Dr. John S. MacDonald MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Burnaby, British Columbia Placide Poulin MAAX Inc. Sainte-Marie de Beauce, Quebec Peter Lymburner Robertson* Robertson Inc. Milton, Ontario * Deceased Gavin Semple Brandt Group of Companies Regina, Saskatchewan An induction ceremony and dinner will be held Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts in Windsor, Ontario Click here for 2006 & 2007 Inductees