O'Keefe and Drew was a

meat packer The meat-packing industry (also spelled meatpacking industry or meat packing industry) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock. Poultry is generally no ...

and

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retailer based in Chatham, Ontario.Rhodes, John. "Chatham was home to luxury car manufacturer that took on city's name", written 18 October 2016, a
''Chatham This Week'' online
(retrieved 13 June 2017)

History

The company was founded by Joseph T. O'Keefe and Thomas A. Drew. The packing plant was east of the city, where Grand Trunk and

Pere Marquette Jacques Marquette S.J. (June 1, 1637 – May 18, 1675), sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Sainte Marie, and later founded Saint Igna ...

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s met. The retail operation was at #53 King Street West, between John Hales' butcher shop and Bright's Opera House; it would later house Percy Parliament's clothing store. The packing plant was later taken over by the Darling Company, which used it to render

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; Darling closed in the 1970s. The partners would later help found the

Chatham Motor Car Company The Chatham Motor Car Company was a Canadian brass era automobile manufacturer, based in Chatham, Ontario, from 1906 to 1909. History The company was created in 1906. Investors included Joseph T. O'Keefe and Thomas A. Drew (partners in the ...

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