 So it was necessary that if Canada was to equip with tanks they would have to be manufactured locally.In June 1940 the Canadian Pacific Railway's Angus Shops in Montreal, as the only large firm with spare capacity, had received a contract to produce 300 partially fitted out Valentine tanks for the British; this was followed later with one for 488 complete tanks for Canada.However the Valentine was an infantry tank and Canada required a cruiser tank for its recently formed armoured division.