Ford Motor Company of Canada

The Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited was founded in 1904 for the construction and sale of Ford automobiles in Canada and the British Commonwealth. The Ford Motor Company in Detroit wrote on patents and sales rights to the Walkerville Wagon Company, in order to circumvent the customs regulations for countries that did not belong to the British Empire. The company was originally known as the Walkerville Wagon Works and lay in Walkersville, today part of Windsor in Ontario. The president of the company, Gordon McGregor, persuaded a group of investors money for Henry Ford to give new idea of the automobile, which was made ​​on the other side of the river in Detroit.

On 17 August 1904, the Canadian Ford dealership was founded in Walkerville. The new company had been granted for all countries of the British Empire, with the exception of Great Britain and Ireland, all patent and selling rights. The model C, the first mass- Canada Automobile, left end of September 1904, the assembly lines. You could make two cars at the same time and in the first full fiscal year (1905) 117 cars were built. The first export vehicle was delivered to Calcutta in India. Even today, the company is one of the major manufacturing plants in Windsor.

With the increase in sales after the Second World War, the Canadian Ford dealership decided to relocate its headquarters to Oakville (Ontario) and there to build a new assembly plant. In 1953 was opened. To meet the ever-increasing sales figures, built the company in 1967 another assembly plant in Talbotville.

Ford has always been one of the strongest companies in Canada and in the 1970s it was even the largest companies in the country. 2004 celebrated its 100th anniversary, the company, a year after the parent company, which was founded in 1903.

Since 2010, Ford is involved in a dispute over a new gas-fired power plant to be built on a 6 -acre plot on the plant grounds in Oakville and operated by TransCanada. Of the residents and politicians Ford was asked not to pursue the plans further, as many fear for the health and safety of local residents. Since the catastrophic explosion of a gas-fired power plant in Middletown ( Connecticut ) in 2010 and the propane explosion in Toronto in 2008 calling for many a buffer zone for such power plants and therefore consider the Ford terrain unsuitable for this purpose, as private houses and schools are nearby.

Current CEO is Dianne Craig .. William H. Osborne was chairman from 2005 until its replacement by Eagle in February 2008.

List of current Ford plants in Canada

List of former Ford plant in Canada

Currently produced models

  • Ford Crown Victoria ( also combination and Police Interceptor ) - St. Thomas - is set in September 2011
  • Ford Edge - Oakville
  • Ford Flex - Oakville
  • Mercury Grand Marquis - St. Thomas - is set in September 2011
  • Lincoln Town Car - from MY2008 - St. Thomas - is set in September 2011
  • Lincoln MKX - Oakville
  • Lincoln MKT - Oakville

Previous models

  • Ford SVT Lightning ( 2nd generation) - Oakville
  • Mercury Monterey ( Minivan ) - Oakville
  • Mercury Marauder
  • Ford F -150 - Oakville
  • Ford Freestar - Oakville
  • Ford Windstar - Oakville
  • Ford Tempo / Mercury Topaz Oakville
  • Ford Model A - Walkerville (Windsor )
  • Ford Model C - Walkerville (Windsor )
  • Ford Model K - Walkerville (Windsor )
  • Ford Model N - Walkerville (Windsor )
  • Ford Model T - Walkerville (Windsor )
  • Ford Torino - Oakville
  • Ford Falcon - Oakville
  • Ford Maverick - Oakville
  • Ford Econoline - Oakville
  • Frontenac
  • Canadian Military Pattern truck during the Second World War - Windsor
  • Mercury Meteor - Windsor, Oakville
  • Mercury Monarch - Oakville
Types of business entity Windsor (Ontario) Middletown (Connecticut) Ford Falcon (North America)
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