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Resources for the automobile industry and listings of automotive manufacturers in Canada.
Automotive companies of Canada :
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Armet Armored Vehicles
Armet Armored Vehicles, Incorporated is a manufacturing
company. It has three manufacturing locations; one in Concord, Ontario, Largo,
Florida, and Marsa, Republic of Malta. It also has two subsidiaries; Armet
Armored Vehicles, Ltd, in Ireland, and Armet Armored Vehicles, Ltd, in England.
The company has been selling their vehicles world-wide now for over 25 years.
There have been significant sales to Russia, Western Europe, North Africa,
England, and the countries where they are produced. In more recent years there
have also been sales to various governments in the Middle East and to regions in
the gulf.
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Chrysler
Canada
Chrysler Canada Inc. is Chrysler's Canadian division.
Incorporated in 1925, the Chrysler Corporation of Canada gained complete control
of a Maxwell-Chalmers plant that had been used to manufacture some Chrysler
models in the previous year. Initially called Chrysler Canada, Ltd, the name of
the company changed to DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc following the merger of the
two parent companies. In August 2007, the company was renamed Chrysler Canada
Incorporated when Cerberus Capital Management purchased 80.1% of its parent
company Chrysler LLC.
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Dupon Trolley
Industries
Dupon Trolley specializes in making and rebuilding buses.
Based in Quebec City, it has been in business for over 60 years.
Most of Dupon's clients are in Canada and the United States.
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Ford Motor Company of
Canada
Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited is the manufacturing
and sales arm of Ford Motor Company for Canada. It was founded in 1904 in
Walkerville, Ontario by Gordon McGregor as President and Henry Ford as
Vice-President. Ford took over the Presidency in 1906 and continued in this role
until succeeded by his son Edsel Ford in 1927. Current Ford HQ is in Oakville,
Ontario.
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General Motors
Canada
General Motors of Canada Limited (GM Canada) is the name of
General Motors' Canadian division. The national headquarters office, their
Canadian Regional Engineering Centre, and the main manufacturing plants are
located in Oshawa, Ontario.
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Girardin Minibus
Girardin Minibus specializes in custom order buses and is
based in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada (along the Trans-Canada Highway). During
the 1990s, Girardins were marketed through the United States branded as Blue
Bird MB II/IV by Girardin alongside their own Micro Bird. Girardin is also a
dealer for Blue Bird Corporation school and commercial buses in Canada. Most of
Girardin's buses are mini-school buses and are used throughout Canada.
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Honda Canada Inc.
Honda Canada Incorporated is the Canadian unit of Honda of
Japan.
Founded in 1969, Honda has been building cars in Canada since 1986. The head
office is in Toronto, Ontario. Plans are to relocate the various Honda offices
to Markham, Ontario in 2008.
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Linamar
Based in Guelph, Ontario, Linamar Corporation (TSX: LNR) is
Canada's second largest automobile parts manufacturer after Magna International.
Linamar manufactures and supplies automotive and industrial markets across the
globe with numerous manufacturing centres across North America, Europe, and
Asia.
The company was founded in 1966 by Frank Hasenfratz as Linamar Machine Limited
in Ariss, Ontario.
A recent takeover occurred in Wales, UK. Where Linamar bought the Swansea plant
off Visteon UK Ltd.
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Magna International
Magna International Inc. (TSX: MG) is a Canadian company
based in Aurora, Ontario. It is Canada's largest automobile parts manufacturer,
and one of the country's largest companies. It also owns the successful Magna
Steyr automobile production company of Austria.
The company was founded in 1957 by Frank Stronach as Multimatic. This company
merged with Magna Electronics in 1969, and the combined company became Magna
International in 1973.
Magna manufactures auto parts that are primarily supplied to General Motors,
Ford Motor Company, and Chrysler LLC. In addition to the Big 3 automakers,
Magna's major customers include Volkswagen, BMW and Toyota. In Europe, Magna
Steyr holds contracts for the assembly of the Jeep Grand Cherokee, Chrysler
Voyager minivan and BMW X3 SUV. Magna has a relativelely minimal presence in
Asia with just 3 manufacturing centres in South Korea, 1 in Kunshan,China and 2
engineering centres in South Korea and China.
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New Flyer
Industries
New Flyer Industries Inc. (TSX: NFI.UN) is a bus
manufacturer in North America, headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It
also has factories in Crookston and St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA.
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Nova Bus
Nova Bus is a bus manufacturing company based in
Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada. The company is now owned by Volvo Buses.
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Olco Petroleum Group
Olco Petroleum Group, Incorporated is a gas station
franchise located in the province of Ontario, in Canada. The chain is an
independent franchise, and has locations in many Ontario and cities. The company
has 319 franchise stations: 182 in Quebec, and 137 in Ontario.
Its head office is based in Montreal.
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Orion Bus
Industries
Orion Bus Industries, previously Ontario Bus Industries in
Canada and Bus Industries of America in the United States is a Mississauga,
Ontario, Canada-based bus manufacturer established by the government of Ontario
in 1975. Privatized in 1993, Orion was acquired by DaimlerChrysler (now Daimler
AG) in July 2000, and is now, along with Setra in the United States and the
Sprinter minibus line, part of the Daimler Buses North America group.
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Pioneer Petroleum
Pioneer is a gas station franchise located in the province
of Ontario, in Canada. The chain is an independent franchise, and has locations
in many Ontario cities and towns.
The company was founded by Murray Hogarth on November 29, 1956 on Upper James
Street in Hamilton, Ontario.
Like its larger and older competitor Canadian Tire, the company offers its own
community currency, in the form of "Bonus Bucks", similar to Canadian Tire
Money.
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RM Auctions
RM Auctions, incorporated in 1991, is the world's largest
classic car auction company. RM Auctions is a Canadian company which maintains
offices in Canada, the United States and England. The company's headquarters are
located in Blenheim, Ontario. RM runs a number of auction events which can be
broken into two major categories: catalogue, and non-catalogue sales.
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Toyota Motor
Manufacturing Canada
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. (TMMC) is the
Canadian automobile manufacturing division of Toyota Canada Inc., which in turn
is the Canadian unit of Toyota Motor Corporation. TMMC currently operates a
plant in Cambridge, Ontario, and another in Woodstock, Ontario.
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ZENN Motor Company
The ZENN Motor Company is a Canadian-based company that
develops small, purely electric vehicles. Their initial focus was to develop
cars suitable for the neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) market. This was to be
a stepping stone for developing freeway-capable vehicles, which could not be
mass produced at that time. The company currently produces the ZENN vehicle.
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