In 1909, George Third (Geordie), emigrated from Aberdeen, Scotland to Brandon, Manitoba. According to legend, he found it a wee bit cold for a kilt, so six weeks later he got back on a train and rode it all the way west to balmy Vancouver - a place where he could thaw his frozen haggis, and build what would become a family empire. It was a bright sunny day when Geordie finally stepped from the C.N.R. car and into a city that is still our family home ninety-seven incredible years later. The young Scot strode across the dirt road to a busy blacksmith shop at 1129 Main Street, and was hired... on the spot, to hammer and bend red hot west coast steel. In just one year the enterprising twenty-five year old and his new partner, William - owned the business. The rest ... as they say ... is history. If you would like to see how George Third & Son forged North American history for almost ten decades, sit back and relax. After this page has fully loaded you will be automatically transported into the Third Dimension of structural steel and modern day technology. But please be patient, because we had to heat and hammer almost 100 years of true grit into a very compact web page. For some reason if you are not automatically transported after this page has finished loading, please click here:: when this bar turns all white the page is loaded and you may click