Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-8kt4b Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-02T20:18:12.214Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

6 - The Sun Never Sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Mira Wilkins
Affiliation:
Florida International University
Get access

Summary

“Moved by Henry Ford, seconded by W. R. Campbell, that the Directors on behalf of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited, desire to place on record their deep sense of loss which this company has sustained by the death on March 11, 1922 of Gordon M. McGregor, its Vice-President, Treasurer, and General Manager.” So read the Board minutes five days later. The statement continued, “by his faithful, intelligent, and untiring services and by the loyalty and confidence which he was able to inspire in its officers and employees, he contributed immensely to its [the Company's] success.”

This tribute of his associates had for the most part been rendered previously in Dominion newspapers, where his death had been frontpage news. The founder of the Windsor company was hailed by the Border Cities Star as “the most distinguished citizen” of the Windsor-Walkerville area, and there and elsewhere had been lauded for his public services, his contributions to social welfare, and above all for his achievement in building a notable Canadian industry. The termination of his life by cancer in a Montreal hospital marked the end of an epoch for the Ford Motor Company of Canada. The formative years of that organization had ended.

It was indeed an impressive heritage that McGregor left behind him. The Canadian Ford plant was a giant, with a capacity of 60,000 motor vehicles a year.

Type
Chapter
Information
American Business Abroad
Ford on Six Continents
, pp. 113 - 133
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×