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26-746: The first iteration of the plant was opened in June 1963 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The premises were leased from Atlantic Sugar Refineries (now Lantic Sugar ). The Halifax plant was unlike any other assembly plant Volvo was operating at the time. This was mainly due to the plant's trademark team system that assembled the entire vehicle at one station, which was extensively used later at Volvo Torslanda Assembly and then Volvo Kalmar Assembly . In 1966, annual production totaled over 3,700 cars. Volvo 122 S , 123 GT and 122 B18s were assembled in Halifax initially,

52-553: A Gemini Award for the best writing in a comedy or variety program for their work in Hatching, Matching and Dispatching . She has won 18 Gemini Awards . She won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, for the film Happy Place . Walsh received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in

78-627: A film in general release across Canada. Walsh has battled alcoholism. The Toronto Star reported that the end of CODCO coincided with the end of Walsh's active alcoholism, with Walsh stating "which was a damn good thing because I could have never done This Hour Has 22 Minutes if I'd been drinking." She won Best Supporting Actress at the Atlantic Film Festival in 1992 for her performance in Mike Jones' Secret Nation . On November 4, 2006, Walsh and Ed MacDonald picked up

104-461: A large group of people who went and stripped naked standing next to St. John's Harbour in −11 °C (12 °F) weather to be filmed as a part of the show's closing. Walsh herself did not go nude. In 2017, Walsh published her debut novel, Crying for the Moon . Walsh made her feature directorial debut with the 2007 movie Young Triffie . She was the first Newfoundlander in six years to have

130-601: A new plant to build the Volvo 740 , which the company said required more space for assembly than the existing factory could provide. The new C$ 13.5-million plant, located in the Bayers Lake Industrial Park , began operating in late 1987, and achieved full production in April 1988. In 1993, the Halifax operation celebrated its 30th anniversary. To mark the occasion 940s built at the facility were affixed with

156-423: A new television series called This Hour Has 22 Minutes . The show was a parody of the nightly news, and poked fun at Canadian and international politics. 22 Minutes received strong ratings during its earlier seasons and Walsh's character Marg Delahunty became famous for buttonholing politicians and submitting them to satirical interviews. Usually Marg Delahunty would recite a scripted piece intended to humiliate

182-614: A segment on the CBC documentary series The Greatest Canadian , in which she championed the case for Sir Frederick Banting (the Nobel prize-winning discoverer of insulin ) as the greatest Canadian who ever lived. In June 2007, she hosted the Pride Toronto Gala & Awards ceremony. On December 15, 2007, Walsh made national news with a story about her upcoming special, Nudity, Sexuality, Violence and Coarse Language , in which

208-518: A special roundel affixed to the rear quarter window. While the plant was very successful, on September 9, 1998 Volvo decided to close the Halifax plant and end its 225 jobs, citing globalization and NAFTA as two of the reasons. The last Volvo was built in Canada on 18 December 1998. The Bayer's Lake plant building at 115 Chain Lake Drive still stands. Shortly after the closure announcement

234-492: A spokesperson for Oxfam , Canada's human rights campaign, and in 2010 received Oxfam 's Spirit of Change Award, in recognition of her years of dedication to eradicating poverty and ensuring public services for all. On May 29, 1998, Mary Walsh received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Trent University . McGill University honoured Walsh with an honorary doctorate during the November 2008 convocation ceremony. Her speech to

260-830: Is the largest refined sugar distributor in Canada . Established as Rogers Sugar Income Fund in October 1997, the income trust was converted to a regular corporation, Rogers Sugar Inc. in January 2011. The company began as two companies on both the east coast and west coast of Canada. The original Rogers Sugar company was established in Vancouver, British Columbia as the British Columbia Sugar Refining Company in 1890 by its American-born founder, Benjamin Tingley Rogers , whose father

286-460: The CBC Gem web series Broad Appeal: Living with E's , for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Web Program or Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022. Walsh's other television work included the short-run sitcoms Dooley Gardens (1999); Hatching, Matching and Dispatching (2006); and a guest starring role as Miranda Cahill on

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312-477: The Guinness World record for the fastest time around the world in a Halifax-built Volvo 245 DL nicknamed Red Cloud. Ken Langley and Gary Sowerby completed the feat in just 74 days, 1 hour and 11 minutes, smashing the previous record by over a month. Shortly before the plant's closure, popular Canadian comedy/satire show This Hour Has 22 Minutes and correspondent Mary Walsh filmed an entire segment at

338-637: The Royal Canadian Air Farce 's 300th episode. On October 24, 2011, Walsh was once again in the spotlight as she reprised the role of Marg Delahunty conducting an ambush interview of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at his home. Ford's reaction and alleged verbal abuse directed at a 911 operator made national headlines. She also reprised Marg, Princess Warrior for an episode of the 25th season of 22 Minutes in December 2017. In 2020, Walsh reprised her longtime 22 Minutes character of Miss Eulalia in

364-538: The Volvo PV544 was introduced a year later. Halifax built 123 GT models like the 122 S were rebadged as "Canadian GT"s. Units produced at the plant typically came without auxiliary lights and had only one side-view mirror, but came with a limited-slip differential and hazard flashers. Halifax built Canadian GTs were available in colours such as light green (91), light blue (95), and dark blue (96) and are often seen with identification codes 5145 or 5324. For three years

390-648: The CBC television series Republic of Doyle . She currently has a recurring role on CBC's Little Dog . She created the CBC program Mary Walsh: Open Book , a talk show about books and literature, in 2003. Walsh revived the Fury family from Hatching, Matching, and Dispatching by writing and starring in A Christmas Fury in 2017 . Besides TV acting, she has worked on movies such as Mambo Italiano , Geraldine's Fortune , Rain, Drizzle and Fog , Buried on Sunday , The Divine Ryans , Young Triffie , Violet, and The Grand Seduction . 2004 saw Walsh host

416-468: The company had the highest EBITDA balance recorded its history. The combined company operates these facilities: Mary Walsh (actress) Mary Cynthia Walsh CM (born May 13, 1952) is a Canadian actress, comedian, and writer. She is known for her work on CODCO and This Hour Has 22 Minutes . Walsh was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador , the daughter of Mary and Leo Walsh. Leo

442-658: The facility, also the first Volvo produced outside of Europe, is a black 1963 Volvo 122 B18 currently on permanent display at the Nova Scotia Museum of Industry in Stellarton, Nova Scotia . In 1969, 26 Volvo bodies intended for the plant were dumped into the Bedford Basin after incurring severe water damage in transit across the Atlantic Ocean on a container ship. In 1980, two Canadians broke

468-698: The performing arts, in 2012. A sufferer of macular degeneration , she has served from time to time as a spokesperson for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB). In 1993, Walsh was chosen to deliver the prestigious Graham Spry lecture which was broadcast nationally on CBC Radio . In 1994, Walsh addressed the United Nations Global Conference on Development in New York. She has also served as

494-540: The pier. The new plant enabled production to exceed 8,000 cars per year. Cars were shipped from Sweden in CKD form, then assembled at the facility. Production on average at the Dartmouth Plant was about 15 cars per day. At the new facility, production increased to over 36 cars a day. And, in 1974, production at the plant increased to more than 12,000 vehicles a year. In 1986, Volvo Canada announced plans to construct

520-481: The plant became the focus of a dispute between Volvo and the Canadian Auto Workers Union . On 21 October 1998, thirty employees blockaded the plant after Volvo refused to pay what the union considered adequate severance pay and retirement benefits to the plant's employees. After several days, Volvo backed down and agreed to the union's payment specifications. The first Volvo produced at

546-548: The plant operated out of this harbourfront facility (an old sugar processing plant) located on Halifax Harbour's Eastern Passage . On 14 April 1967, a replacement plant at Pier 9 in Halifax was opened. The project was financed by provincial Crown corporation Industrial Estates Limited , which leased the harbourfront site from the National Harbours Board , providing the Volvo plant with its own unloading space on

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572-787: The plant. The Canadian Museum of Science and Technology paid tribute to the plant by featuring a 1989 Volvo 740 GLE that had been produced at that plant in a permanent exhibit entitled " The Quest in Search of the Canadian Car ". Rogers Sugar Rogers Sugar Inc. is the Canadian holding company of Lantic Inc. , which was established in June 2008 after the merger of Lantic Sugar Limited operating in Montreal, Quebec and Rogers Sugar Ltd. (operating in Western Canada ). It

598-564: The politician, often by providing criticism and "grandmotherly" advice. Sometimes Marg appeared as "Marg, Princess Warrior", a parody of the title character of Xena: Warrior Princess portrayed by Lucy Lawless . Walsh is also noted for her comical segment chronicling the Canadian Auto Workers Union 's tense blockade of the Volvo Halifax Assembly plant in 1998. In 2007, she revived Marg Delahunty for

624-676: Was a merchant marine turned firefighter on commercial vessels. She is the seventh of eight children, and is of Irish ancestry. She is a past member of Girl Guides of Canada . Walsh studied theatre in Toronto at Ryerson University but dropped out to work with the CODCO comedy troupe on a series of stage shows, which eventually evolved into a sketch comedy series. The CODCO series ran from 1988 to 1993 on CBC Television . In 1992, she began to work with former co-star Rick Mercer and former CODCO co-stars Cathy Jones and Greg Thomey to create

650-548: Was formed in 1888 in Montreal. Lantic Inc. was created from the merger of Rogers Sugar and Lantic Sugar on June 30, 2008. On September 28, 2023, 135 employees at the Vancouver refinery walked off the job after issuing a 72-hour strike notice. They had been attempting to negotiate with the company for six months after their contract expired. Lantic was demanding major concessions in regards to hours worked and benefits. In 2022,

676-467: Was president of E.J. Gay’s Sugar of New Orleans . Atlantic Sugar Refineries was established in 1912 from the merger of three sugar refineries, including Acadia Sugar Refining Co. (established 1893 in Halifax, Nova Scotia ), and later renamed as Lantic Sugar Limited. The company was owned from 1981 to 1990 by Steinberg's , a chain of supermarkets. In 1984, Lantic Sugar acquired St. Lawrence Sugar, which

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