Building a Model T in 1925: Ford Canada, Windsor, Ontario

Video from the filmstrips "Your Future Car" and “Across Canada with Ford”


In the summer of 1904, Gordon McGregor, president of the Walkerville Wagon Works, of Walkerville, Ontario, approached an up-and-coming American auto manufacturer named Henry Ford to propose opening a Canadian auto plant. The deal they made launched Canada’s largest and oldest car-building business. Join the CAM’s Exhibit & Project Coordinator Dumaresq to see what car-building looked like at Ford Canada in 1925.

The postcard view of the plant is from the collection of the Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive.

Video from the filmstrips "Your Future Car" and “Across Canada with Ford”, Library and Archives Canada ISN 185644 and 19759.

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