Ford Motor Company of Canada stock certificate 1930 (Canada) 

Early auto piece. Impressive vignette of two classical male figures representing science and industry, flanking a map of the world with the classic Ford logo. Issued and stamp cancelled 1932 at lower right. Hole punches through signatures. Dated 1930 on the cert (faded ink lower left).  Approximately 11 x 7 inches. 

Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited was founded on August 17, 1904, for the purpose of manufacturing and selling Ford cars in Canada. It was originally known as the Walkerville Wagon Works and was in Walkerville, Ontario (now part of Windsor, Ontario). The founder, Gordon Morton McGregor, convinced a group of investors to invest in Henry Ford's new automobile, which was being produced across the river in Detroit, Michigan.

The Model C, the first car to be produced in Canada, rolled out of the factory in late September 1904. The company could produce two cars at a time and in its first full year of production, the company was able to produce 117 automobiles. The company's first export sales were to Calcutta, India.

With the growth in car sales after World War II, together with the acquisition of majority control by Ford Motor Company, Ford of Canada decided to move its head office and build a new assembly plant in Oakville, Ontario. The new Oakville assembly plant was opened in 1953. To meet ever increasing demand, the Company opened another assembly plant in Talbotville, Ontario, in 1967.

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