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=**Samuel Mclaughlin**=

For our research project, we studied and told the life of Cnl.Samuel McLaughlin.

__Early Life__ In his younger days, Samuel McLaughlin competed in cycling and yachting and was a horse riding show jumping champion at competitions in both Canada and the United States of America. His love for horses led to the establishing of the Parkwood Stable, a thoroughbred horse racing and breeding farm a few miles north of Oshawa, Ontario. In 1950, the nearly eighty-year-old racer McLaughlin retired from racing, selling his Parkwood Stable to E. P. Taylor under whom it would become known as Windfields Farm, which was one of the main reasons Samuel accepted to be the chief of his fathers company "McLaughlin Carriage Works"

__Company and Other Work__

After Samuel finished high school at the age of sixteen, he became a journey man three years later. Around that period of time Samuel left the border to get experience in the manufacturing of vehicles in Watertown, Syracuse, Binghamton, and New York. Two years later he came home, marking his twenty-first birthday and his two brothers John James Mclaughlin and George William Mclaughlin had told him how they would be partners in their fathers company "McLaughlin Carriage Works" which later became the greatest carriage company in the British Empire. As time passed it was announced that Samuel had become chief.

Samuel McLaughlin was president of McLaughlin Motor Car Company (around 1908). He had to sell his company in 1918 to allow the General Motors Company to operate and make vehicles in Oshawa, Ontario. He was the vice-president of the parent operation, and his brother was president of the Canadian operation. In 1898, he married Adelaide Louise Mowbray and with her, raised 5 children - Eileen, Mildred, Isabel, Hilda, Eleanor. Proudly involved with the Ontario Regiment, Sam was named Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the 11th Ontario Regiment in 1921, Honorary Colonel in 1936 and Honorary Colonel for Life in 1967. His company's main goal was to have a horse-and-carriage free industry. That meaning to eliminate the carraige system, and stop using horses.

Although, in our opinion the reason that Mr. McLaughlin went international, was for the cash, and to get the motorcar everywhere. What we also think would happen if he only stayed in Canada is that General Motors would not have become a large part of our lives until another businessman brought it into our country. Also, Production in Oshawa would have stopped, so Cnl. McLaughlin brought in General Motors to ensure vehicle manufacturing in Oshawa for generations.

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