VIRGIN POSTER here: (Thanks B_O_B!!) Ex 'Pegger here, now dwelling in Maple Ditch, B.C. Canada eh!!! B.C.H.R.A's picknic coming up soon
Iffly Saskatchewan , now Edmonton Alberta Mercury Trucks That have made in Canada cast into the Flatheads .
Looks like a couple of Windsor ON guys here ...actually I'm from nearby beautiful downtown Belle River ....pretty much a Ford man but enjoy checking out everyone's ride . Used to hang out at Detroit Dragway , Sparta ( St Thomas ) and am probably the only guy here that went to the short lived Windsor Dragway circa 1968 . Father had a '51 Monarch that I had hoped to get one day ...never happened . T
I'm one of the few that went to the drags at the Windsor Dragway. Seeing Color-me-Gone and Seeton's Shaker funny cars helped create this car addiction!
List reasons why a Canadian company has not been able to produce a car? NOTE: branches of American or other countries don't count. I.e., GM of Canada, Toyota of Canada etc.
My wife is from Alberta, my grandmother was from Nova Scotia. We lived in Alberta from 1976 - 1978. During the time I lived there I worked for a carpet installer, we did the carpet for a family in Red Deer. the man worked for a bank I think, but he owned a black 40 Ford Coupe with flames on the front (327, turbo 350, disk brakes on the Ford front axle, the wishbone was not split) later I think he had a 29 roadster. I can't remember his name --- any of you Alberta guys know him?
Canada was the second largest car manufacturer in the world up until 1923 and we had a number of companies producing cars. Our small population would have been one of the big killers. There were only 9 million people in the country at that time so just not enough people to support the industry. But what really did the industry in was in 1926 when the government, trying to help the Canadian manufactures compete, put a 35% tarriff on importing vehicles so the big U.S. Manufacturers set up factories in Canada to beat the tarriff.
Thanks Old-Soul, sorry I have no pictures of his cars, the man also had a 454 Chevelle at the time. The forty Ford had what seemed to me the best flame job I had ever seen. He told me he laid out the pattern for the flames himself.
leamington ontario, on the north shore of lake Eire. The following auto manufacturers produced vehicles in southwestern Ontario during the 20th century and before: 1899 to 1902 - National Cycle and Auto Company Ltd 1904 to present - Ford Motor Company 1904 to 1923 - W. E. Seagrve (Fire Engines) 1908 to 1909 - Menard Auto Buggy 1910 to 1920 - Menard Motor Truck 1908 to 1912 - E-M-F 1912 to 1936 - Studebaker 1910 to 1915 - Dominion Motors Ltd 1910 to 1912 - Regal Motor Car Company 1910 to 1914 - Gramm Motor Truck 1911 to 1933 - Canadian Commercial Car Ltd 1911 to 1914 - Hupp Motor Co of Canada (and 1933 to 1936) 1912 to 1914 - Canadian Two-In-One Auto Co. Amherstburg 1912 to 1915 - Tate Electric Ltd 1916 to 1925 - Chalmers Motor Car Co 1916 to 1925 - Maxwell Motor Co 1925 to present - Chrysler Canada Ltd (bought Chalmers and Maxwell) 1920 to 1924 - Dodge Brothers Canada Ltd 1920 to 1921 - Stansell Motors Amherstburg 1922 to 1928 - REO Motor Car co of Canada Ltd 1923 to 1929 - Gotfredson Truck Corp 1928 to 1936 - Pierce Arrow Corp of Canada 1930 to present - General Motors of Canada Ltd 1931 to 1935 - Graham Paige Motors Canada Ltd 1931 to 1941 - Packard Motor Car Co of Canada 1932 to 1938 - Hudson Motor Car Co of Canada Ltd (and 1950 to 1954) 1948 to 1990 - Wayne Canada/Welles Corp (School Buses) 1955 to 1970 - Kaiser-Willys
When I lived in Alberta I saw at a farm near Lacombe an Essex sedan, it said "Essex Super Six" on the radiator shell. The farmer said his grandson was going to hot-rod it. I don't know if it ever happened though. Essex had some connection to Hudson and later turned into Terraplane
Salut from the metropolis of Beachville! Hee Haw! There are two big reasons why Canada, particularily Southern Ontario, could never quite get over the hump of mass production of cars: CAW and Dalton McGoofball! Do not want to ruin this thread so that is all I'm gonna say. I always loved the Acadian Canso. Dad bought us boys one during our highschool years to keep us out of the family big block Impala. It was a shame it was the mid 70's version! UGH!
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