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Yorkville Sound

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Ontario

Pickering, Ontario manufacturer of PA speakers, powered loudspeakers, and Traynor tube amplifiers, controlled by the Long family through Long & McQuade and sold through Canadian music retailers rather than direct to consumers.

Pickering, ON CA · www.yorkville.com

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Yorkville Sound is a Pickering, Ontario maker of PA speakers, powered loudspeakers, and Traynor tube amplifiers, founded in 1963 as a partnership between Long & McQuade co-founder Jack Long and repairman Pete Traynor. Yorkville Sound Limited was amalgamated into Long & McQuade Limited in 1991 and remains privately controlled by the Long family, with more than 200 employees building its North American product line at the Pickering facility. It is sold through Canadian music retailers such as Long & McQuade rather than direct to consumers.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 verified

CA 100%

Corporations Canada's federal registry shows Yorkville Sound Limited was amalgamated into Long & McQuade Limited in 1991, and Long & McQuade Limited's individuals with significant control, Steven Gregory Long and Jeffrey Hewson Long, are both Canadian residents at a non-distributing corporation with 50 or fewer shareholders. Wikipedia and madeinca.ca both corroborate continued Long family and private Canadian ownership, and Long & McQuade Limited's registered office sits on the same Granite Court in Pickering as Yorkville's own address.

Manufacturing

92.0 reported

CA 90% · other 10%

Yorkville's own 60th-anniversary history page and madeinca.ca both state the company manufactures all of its North American-built products at the 150,000-square-foot Pickering facility, and Long & McQuade's own spec listings show Country of Origin: Canada for both a Yorkville powered speaker and a Traynor tube amp. The North American-built qualifier leaves some room for imported product lines that were not identified, so the Canadian share is not treated as absolute.

People

87.0 reported

CA 90% · US 10%

Yorkville's own history page and madeinca.ca put more than 200 employees at the Pickering, Ontario facility, the company's manufacturing and head office site, and Corporations Canada lists Long & McQuade Limited's registered office on the same Granite Court in Pickering. An archived 2013 contact page also lists a smaller Yorkville Sound USA office in Niagara Falls, New York, so a modest US employee share is assumed since no staff split was published.

Inputs

35.0 inferred

CA 20% · EU 5% · other 70% · US 5%

No source found specifies where component parts such as speaker drivers, transformers, vacuum tubes, or circuit boards are sourced, and yorkville.com's own product and sourcing pages sit behind a Cloudflare challenge that blocked direct research. Final assembly happens in Pickering, but electronic components for pro-audio gear are typically imported, mostly from Asia, so this split is an estimate rather than a documented figure.

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