Intro: Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited, with headquarters in Oakville, Ontario, is the longest-established automobile company in Canada, producing a full line of quality cars and trucks.
Ford Motor Company was started in Detroit, Michigan, in 1903. A year later, in 1904, the Canadian automobile industry was established when, with a $125,000 investment, Henry Ford set up limited operations at the McGregor wagon factory in Windsor, Ontario, across the Detroit River from his original plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Gordon McGregor, the 31-year-old general manager, had just 17 employees in that first year.
The company is still a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, although its shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Ford of Canada is a Canadian public corporation. Wholly-owned subsidiaries of Ford of Canada include operations in Australia and New Zealand. Canada’s headquarters is in Oakville, Ontario, near Toronto, as is the Oakville Assembly plant, which produces the Ford Windstar Minivan, the St. Thomas Assembly plant situated near London, Ontario
that concentrates its production on Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis. In addition to these assembly plants, there are other plants such as the 3.8-liter motor and v-6 engine producer Essex Engine Plant situated in Windsor, Ontario.
Canada has accounted for the highest total of vehicles made outside of the United States. It took Canada 72 years to make their first ten million cars. However, they were able to make the second ten million cars during the next twenty years,
Since 1996, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, the Canadian operations were part of the North American recovery plan which included shutting down the Onterio Truck plant. |
