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OCAL LEGACY
A Shared History of Commitment to Community
Angelo DeMarco (left) with the 2014 Hiram Walker & Sons fundraising team.
Like a fine whisky, United Way was founded 68 attic that brings you joy when
some things only years ago in Windsor, and four you dust it off and look at it, the
get better with ‘lead companies’ - Hiram Walker community would not be known
age, including & Sons, Ford Motor Company, as one of the most generous
United Way’s General Motors, and Chrysler communities in Canada without
partnerships with (now called FCA Canada), and the caring power of these long-
some long-time their affiliated unions have been time community partners.
friends. supporting United Way since
day-one. That pride of history is
something that both Hiram
Every year the ‘Big Four’ Walker and Sons - Pernod
spearheaded a fundraising drive Ricard and United Way share.
of employee contributions and Hiram Walker has been around
corporate dollars to support a for more than 150 years. Its
community fund which helped founders helped build one of the
to build the foundation of what Windsor’s first neighbourhoods
is now United Way/Centraide - Walkerville. Hiram Walker’s
Windsor-Essex County. archivist dug up photos of
employee participants in the
Through the leadership of the United Way campaign dating
Big Four, more organizations have back to the 1960s.
come on board each year, making
today’s United Way annual “We’ve been around a long
campaign one of the largest in time, and we want to continue
the region, and demonstrating to be around a long time, but it’s
the generosity and commitment great to know that part of our
of local companies and unions to history is a proven track record
helping those in need. of taking care of the community,
and United Way being the
And just like a treasure in the
6 | Magazine of United Way/Centraide Windsor-Essex County • Winter 2016 • Vol. 4
A Shared History of Commitment to Community
Angelo DeMarco (left) with the 2014 Hiram Walker & Sons fundraising team.
Like a fine whisky, United Way was founded 68 attic that brings you joy when
some things only years ago in Windsor, and four you dust it off and look at it, the
get better with ‘lead companies’ - Hiram Walker community would not be known
age, including & Sons, Ford Motor Company, as one of the most generous
United Way’s General Motors, and Chrysler communities in Canada without
partnerships with (now called FCA Canada), and the caring power of these long-
some long-time their affiliated unions have been time community partners.
friends. supporting United Way since
day-one. That pride of history is
something that both Hiram
Every year the ‘Big Four’ Walker and Sons - Pernod
spearheaded a fundraising drive Ricard and United Way share.
of employee contributions and Hiram Walker has been around
corporate dollars to support a for more than 150 years. Its
community fund which helped founders helped build one of the
to build the foundation of what Windsor’s first neighbourhoods
is now United Way/Centraide - Walkerville. Hiram Walker’s
Windsor-Essex County. archivist dug up photos of
employee participants in the
Through the leadership of the United Way campaign dating
Big Four, more organizations have back to the 1960s.
come on board each year, making
today’s United Way annual “We’ve been around a long
campaign one of the largest in time, and we want to continue
the region, and demonstrating to be around a long time, but it’s
the generosity and commitment great to know that part of our
of local companies and unions to history is a proven track record
helping those in need. of taking care of the community,
and United Way being the
And just like a treasure in the
6 | Magazine of United Way/Centraide Windsor-Essex County • Winter 2016 • Vol. 4
