Jean's Ceiling Fans Sightings

[Jean Lemieux]

Some sightings for July.

A local Subway restaurant have two of theses. I think they are Quorum Capri.


Sunday I went with a friend to Rosemont area.

A Subway restaurant have two antique brass Canarm Grand Builder. That's the second generation. It have builder vents instead of GE vents. I was surprised that the second generation still uses the same nice and wide high gloss blades. They still have the big detachable switch housing but of course it does not have a flywheel anymore. I think there is even a third generation to this fan so that would not be the current generation. That's probably a 2004-2006 model.


A shop where they sell exotic products and clothing from various parts of Asia and Africa have five Canarm CP56.


A Dollard store have eight 90cm bottom mount spinner with a naked motor. In this same thread in August 2010, I posted a more recent 107cm version of this with an integrated mushroom light kit I saw in Québec City. Just like the larger one, theses small ones have a grey sticker on the side of the motor. It really appears to be a Canarm sticker. A lot of the parts on them looks very Canarm. Each picture shows a different one. They were all very silent but most of them were pretty wobbly. They were all running on high and medium speed.





This one have it's pull chains cut off.


I also posted something in my portable fan thread.
Thanks for viewing.

[Rick M.]

There's a Subway around here that has those same Quorums...they seem to be decent fans.

I like the install with those bottom-mount spinners, but they look kinda funny with the manufacturer stickers right on the side of the motors!

[Jean Lemieux]

Jul 31, 2012 22:53:31 GMT -5 Rick M. said:

There's a Subway around here that has those same Quorums...they seem to be decent fans.

I like the install with those bottom-mount spinners, but they look kinda funny with the manufacturer stickers right on the side of the motors!

Yes I think so too. I don't like them so much to be honest. I usually don't like naked spinners.

Thanks for commenting.

[Cole S.]

I agree, it's really weird and quite stupid that they put the sticker in such a visible place like that. I mean it really does just look plain stupid! They're kinda cute for what they are, but I'm not much a fan of bottom mounted spinners of this style.

[Jean Lemieux]

Aug 1, 2012 12:04:45 GMT -5 Cole S. said:

I agree, it's really weird and quite stupid that they put the sticker in such a visible place like that. I mean it really does just look plain stupid! They're kinda cute for what they are, but I'm not much a fan of bottom mounted spinners of this style.

Actually when you think about it, a lot of sticker on fans are in visible places like the switch housing, lower canopy and certain SMC A52 and Royal Flush have a sticker on the side of their housing.

You probably meant that it does not look only for the technical sticker? Still I have seen some fans with technical stickers on the switch housing such as other Canarms and Casablancas made before 2002.

[Cole S.]

Yeah, I mean the sticker with all the technical junk no one cares about. For like the SMCs and Casablancas, that's different, the company logo is typically the main feature, and it's on a stationary part. Sticker on stationary part is fine, sticker on moving part is stupid. I mean maybe if the sticker visibly featured the Canarm (or whatever they are) logo it'd be half decent, but it doesn't.

[fancollector12]

Those builderfans in Subway, Jean, are actually Regency Pro Series fans. They have them in my local Subway here in the US.
Subway has gotta be Regency's biggest customer by far (:

[fancollector12]

And judging by the older speaker in the ceiling next to the fan and the older-style tile ceiling and newer pendant lights, those fans probably replaced other fans, most likely, Hunters.

[Jean Lemieux]

Aug 2, 2012 15:31:07 GMT -5 fancollector12 said:

Those builderfans in Subway, Jean, are actually Regency Pro Series fans. They have them in my local Subway here in the US.
Subway has gotta be Regency's biggest customer by far (:

So the fan in the first Subway is actually ones of theses?:

regencyfan.com/professional-series

The vents seems too skinny to be one of theses and in person they seems to have pointed tip blades.

Yes, renovated Subways mostly have Regency Excels. My closest Subway did something really cool, they renovated somewhere in late 2011 almost all the inside of the restaurant but they kept the original early 1990s Canarms.

[Jean Lemieux]

Aug 2, 2012 15:31:50 GMT -5 fancollector12 said:

And judging by the older speaker in the ceiling next to the fan and the older-style tile ceiling and newer pendant lights, those fans probably replaced other fans, most likely, Hunters.

The ceiling tiles are actually new ones. The old ones does not look like this. The lines were not concealed.

They were two 1990s polished brass Nadairs before. The renovations are extremely recent.

[Jean Lemieux]

Aug 1, 2012 22:22:12 GMT -5 Cole S. said:

Yeah, I mean the sticker with all the technical junk no one cares about. For like the SMCs and Casablancas, that's different, the company logo is typically the main feature, and it's on a stationary part. Sticker on stationary part is fine, sticker on moving part is stupid. I mean maybe if the sticker visibly featured the Canarm (or whatever they are) logo it'd be half decent, but it doesn't.

Yes I agree.

[Jean Lemieux]

At Café Santropol, a very cool restaurant on the Plateau Mont-Royal I went two times recently have an interesting mixture of five ceiling fans from different ages. Two from the early 1980s, one from the mid to late 1980s and two other from the late 1990s - early 2000s.

They are two very rare Palco Carib (spinner) 120 cm from the early 1980s in copper color. It's not a metal plated finish, it's a painted copper color but it's their original color. It matches very well the copper (metal) ceiling and walls and the other warm colors in the restaurant. I guess it was chosen on purpose. I don't think the match is just a coincidence.

One on a shorter downrod:. This one was on medium:


The second one on a longer downrod. It was off. The little piece in the center is missing:


They still have the old controls next to each others. They are very yellowed and dirty:


Further in the restaurant is this antique brass Harbour Breeze spinner 107 cm. This is the version from the mid 1980s. The cane is very dark, I don't think it's just the dust. Mike Kazdan have a polished brass version of this dated of 1985. The first time I was there it was on high, the second time it was turned off.


At the back of the restaurant in the veranda are two late 1990s - early 2000s glossy black Nadair Designer's Choice 132 cm. Both of them have a crooked bracket. They were both on medium.




A lot of the bars, restaurants and shops on St-Laurent Street have ceiling fans. I could not get picture of all of them. Here are two Kendal Aires 60 cm installed outside of a seafood restaurant on the terrace. Theses are not outdoor fans but with such short blades, they won't really wrap.




The inside of that seafood restaurant with the two Kendals on the terrace have some gray painted Canarm/Union looking Industrial 140 cm inside. By their chunkiness, they really look like something from the 1980s even though the whole restaurant is very renovated and up to date.

A very bad picture of a late 1990s - early 2000s Encon Industrial 90 cm in a clothing store:


For those would like to know what other bars & restaurants have:

-Four brushed nickel Westinghouse Airplane II 107 cm spinning slowly with the glassware removed.

-Two or three chromed Modern Fan Co. Stratos spinning very slowly.

- One brushed nickel Hampton Bay Southwind 132 cm and two brushed nickel Industrial 140 cm.

- Two black Encon/Westinghouse Princess 107 cm. One with a green bulb in the light kit and the other one had a yellow bulb.

- Four white Hampton Bay Industrial 140 cm.

- Two or three white Hampton Bay Quick Connect 132 cm.

- Two Banvil Bronze Line 140cm spinning slowly.

- Four glossy black Nadair Designer's Choice 107 cm on long downrods.

- Two brushed nickel Kendal Studio.

- Two or three Minka Aire Gyro Traditional.

Other places:

- One early 1980s brown 4 Seasons spinner 90 cm with three straight metal blades and a flat upper canopy and a late 1980s antique brass GE vent with four oak & cane blades in a grocery store.

- One white Canarm CP36 in a vacant store being renovated.

- I don't remember what kind of store it was but there was a silver painted Canarm CP56 with the blades upside down. (curved tips pointing down)

- Many white Hampton Bay Quick Connect 132 cm in a book store.

[Cole S.]

Love the copper Palcos, that painted copper finish is one of my favorite finishes for spinners like that.

[Jean Lemieux]

Aug 22, 2012 9:20:59 GMT -5 Cole S. said:

Love the copper Palcos, that painted copper finish is one of my favorite finishes for spinners like that.

I actually don't like that finish. They would look awesome in glossy brown. Have you ever seen this model and/or theses controls before? Notice on the control it says that Palco was an International company so theses were officially sold outside of the States.

How do you find the other sightings?

[Deleted]

Those Palcos are awesome!

I also love the outdoor installs.