Ledcor Group of Companies

Ledcor Group of Companies
Private
Industry Construction
Founder William Lede
Headquarters Alberta, British Columbia, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Montana, Nevada, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Texas, Washington, Saskatchewan, Canada, United States
Number of locations
 12 offices
Area served
 Global
Key people
 William Lede, Founder, Dave Lede, Chairman and CEO
Products Mining, Pipelines, Transportation, Telecommunications, Construction Services, Commercial and Institutional Building Construction, Residential Building Construction, Industrial Building and Structure Construction
Number of employees
 5,000
Website www.ledcor.com

Ledcor Group of Companies is a multi-disciplinary construction company in Canada and United States, active in the construction of all types of buildings, civil (mining, dams, highways, bridges, pipeline) heavy industrial-petrochemical, oil/gas, forestry, mining, energy, utilities, and telecommunications while building, installing, and servicing fiber optic cable on land and marine-submarine applications.[1]

History

William (Bill) Lede was born in 1925 to farming parents near Hay Lakes, Alberta. In 1945, he started a modest coal stripping and gravel operation with his brother-in-law, Ralph Stebner. [2]

In 1945, Bill married Florence Wesenberg. Soon after, Bill secured a new contract with Black Nugget and officially started displaying the words “Leduc Construction” on a reconditioned HD14.[3] Early in 1947, he became owner and president of Leduc Construction after officially incorporating the name. Their first contract was to prepare the drilling site for Imperial Oil's Leduc No. 1. In 1953, after the purchase of two Caterpillar Inc. D7 tractors, the company started to make plans for expansion.

References

  1. ↑ "Complete Profile". Industry Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Bill Lede". Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
  3. ↑ The Globe, Momentum (Special ed.). Ledcor Group of Companies. 2012. Retrieved June 3, 2015.
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