The automotive industry in Canada consists primarily of assembly plants of foreign automakers, most with headquarters in the United States or Japan, along with hundreds of manufacturers of automotive parts and systems, a sector represented by the APMA.
Canada is currently the thirteen-largest auto-producing nation in the world, and seventh largest auto exporter by value, producing 1.4 million vehicles and exporting 32billionworthofvehiclesin2020.Canada′shighestrankingseverwerethesecond−largestproducerintheworldbetween1918and1923andthird−largestafterWorldWarII.AutomotivemanufacturingisoneofCanada’slargestindustrialsectors,accountingfor10File:Asunacarslogo.png∣alt=TheoldestsurvivingvehiclemanufacturedinCanadawastheRedpathMessengerbuiltin1903.Ithadawoodencarriagebodyusingaone−cylinderenginewithshaftdriveandtwospeedtransmission.Itwasthefirstvehicleinautomotivehistorywithatiltsteeringwheel.Itweighedapproximately650poundsandsoldforbetween600 and $700 with a top speed of 10 miles per hour. There is only one model known to exist, currently on display at the Canadian Automotive Museum.
The first large-scale production of automobiles in Canada took place in Walkerville, Ontario, near Windsor, in 1904. In the first year of operations, Gordon McGregor and Wallace Campbell, along with a handful of workmen, produced 117 Ford Model Cs at the Walkerville Wagon Works factory.
Through marques such as Brooks, Redpath, Tudhope, McKay (Nova Scotia Carriage and Motor Car Company) Galt Gas-Electric, Gray-Dort, Brockville Atlas, Chatham, Anhunt, Russell (CCM), Hyslop and Ronald, and McLaughlin, Canada had many domestic auto brands.
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