In 1909, Foundation was invited by the Canadian Pacific Railway to build caissons as part of the construction on Windsor Station in Montreal.

Foundation was one of Canada's largest construction firms and was responsible for many of the country's most famous structures built in the 20th century, including the CN Tower and Place Ville Marie.

In the spring of 1902, Edwin Seton Jarrett (1862–1938), Daniel Edward Moran (1864–1937), and Franklin Remington (1865–1955) formed the Foundation Company, incorporated in New York.

[3] In late 1909, the Canadian Pacific Railway hired the Foundation Company to build caissons as part of the construction of Windsor Station in Montreal.

The company went on to win the contracts for pier work on the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway.

[5] In 1906, Richard Ellard Carden Chadwick (1885–1966) graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in mechanical engineering.

[6] In 1924, Chadwick persuaded the directors of the Foundation Company to form a Canadian subsidiary.

Brown, Franklin Remington, Noah A. Timmins, F. H. Phippen, Ernest-Rémi Décary, W. F. Angus, Frank Quilter, and C. B. McNaught.

In March 1962, Slater Steel Industries Limited of Hamilton acquired around 500,000 of Foundation's 1,188,816 shares.

In February 1964, at the request of the federal government, the company released president Shaw to take on the role of deputy commissioner-general of Expo 67.

Following the sale by Janin, Andrew Gilmour McCaughey (1922–2014) replaced Gautrin temporarily as chairman during the transition period.

In the spring of 1987, Banister Continental of Edmonton reached an agreement to acquire the Foundation Company.

[17] In November 1999, Armbro Enterprises Inc. of Brampton, Ontario, made an all-cash offer to purchase BFC at $12.25 per share.

[18] Legally, Armbro had been incorporated on 14 January 1957 in Montreal as the Prefac Concrete Company Limited.

On 1 January 2001, Armbro merged BFC Construction and the Foundation Company, which was still a subsidiary, into a new corporation (no.