The creation of 2,000 new jobs and a $1.1-billion project heralded the June 2005 announcement that Toyota is establishing a significant presence in Woodstock, Ontario in Oxford County. It represents the first Greenfield investment for an assembly plant in Ontario in nearly 20 years. The new assembly plant will be constructed on an almost 1,000-acre site. Woodstock Mayor Michael Harding said the project “represents perhaps the single largest industrial investment in North America in 2005.”
