Ford of Canada and Calgary’s Metro Ford marked a landmark event earlier this month with the grand opening of the automaker’s first franchised dealership on Indigenous land.
The 80,100-square-foot (7,400-square-metre) “Signature” design structure built on 8.5 acres (3.5 hectares) is an anchor for the Taza Park business development on the Tsuut’ina nation on Calgary’s western outskirts. Ford of Canada President Bev Goodman, on hand for the July 15 event, said it’s the first Ford dealership on native land in Canada and “to my knowledge” is the largest dealership in the country “right now.”