Historically, Canadians have bought tools made in the UK, US, and continental Europe. Some masonry tools were made in Canada. Henry Disston and Sons had a plant at 2 to 20 Fraser Ave., Toronto, and according to this 1913 article it made brick and plastering trowels. The Google Maps image below shows the building in 2015..
Here is the complete Disston Canada Hardware Catalog H-65. The back cover shows their facility at 125 McDonald Blvd., Acton, Ontario.
This 1898 book (a digitized microfilm copy) features trowels by Boker, Brades, and W. Rose, and stone tools by Warren:
Illustrated Catalogue of General Hardware by Rice Lewis & Son, Ltd., Toronto, 1898 (selection)
Other Canadian hardware catalogs and magazines are on Archive.org:
Illustrated Catalogue of General Hardware by Rice Lewis & Son, Ltd., Toronto, 1898General Catalogue No. 24 by H.S. Howland. Sons, Toronto, 1924
Canadian hardware trade journals (over 100 results)
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| Canadian pattern brick trowel by WHS Tyzack |
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