The Hub July 2015 | Page 24

Ford City Moving Forward Story and photos by Daniel Gray If William McGregor, MP, Essex County warden and local businessman had gazed out upon the farm lands of Notre Dame Du Lac and envisioned the future, what do you think he would have seen? Inhaling the fresh country air at the corner of what’s now Drouillard and Whelpton, could he have imagined what it would become? It’s likely he never envisioned how his tiny village with French heritage would see both boom and bust, and more than 100 years later be working on resurrection.