ESS celebrates 75th Anniversary, serving Canada’s construction, mining, and forestry industries since 1946 Equipment Sales & Service Limited (“ESS”) is proud to celebrate its 75th anniversary Equipment Sales & Service Limited ETOBICOKE, Ontario, CANADA
TORONTO, April 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) By 1945, Bill Willis certainly recognized the immense business potential heavy equipment distributors would have supplying to a booming post-war Canadian economy. Bill worked for one of the earliest and largest heavy equipment dealers in Ontario. With this insight and business vision in mind, Bill parted ways with that company and on April 6
th, 1946, Equipment Sales & Service was born.
With its humble beginnings operating out of an automotive garage on Queen Street E. in Toronto, Mr. Willis started his legacy distributing Lima shovels. The mantra was simple: hire the best, most experienced people in the industry to sell and support the hig