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The name is derived from "tack", the British sailor slang for food. The earliest use of the term recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1830. [3]It is known by other names including brewis (possibly a cognate with "brose"), cabin bread, pilot bread, sea biscuit, soda crackers, sea bread (as rations for sailors), ship's biscuit, and pejoratively as dog biscuits, molar breakers, sheet ...
Ganong Bros., Limited is a Canadian chocolate and confectionery company based in St. Stephen, New Brunswick. Founded in 1873 by brothers James and Gilbert Ganong, it is the oldest company in its industry in Canada. [3] [4] The family-owned company is in its fifth generation of ownership. [5]
Purity Factories Limited is a food processing company based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.Founded in 1924 by C. C. Pratt, A. E. Hickman, and W. R. Goobie, Purity manufactures traditional Newfoundland foods including cream crackers, hard bread (), Peppermint Nobs, Candy Kisses, Jam Jams (sponge cookies with apple jam filling), flavoured syrups, and jams made with local ingredients ...
Aeropostale Canada – subsidiary of the United States-based retailer Aeropostale, closed all 41 stores in Canada in 2016; A&A Records – founded in Toronto at the end of WWII, it was the dominant record chain store in Canada until being superseded by Sam the Record Man in the 1960s; it became defunct in 1993
Find out which American Companies have been around the longest. From John Deere and Jack Daniel's to Coca-Coal and Carhartt, these are some of the oldest companies in America, some of which are ...
Companies portal; Canada portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 184 subcategories, out of 184 total. 0–9. Canadian companies established in 1811 (1 ...
Possibly the oldest extant building / site in Canada. The permanent garrison left in 1854 and it became Canada's first National Historic Site in 1917. de Gannes-Cosby House: 1693 1708 [94] Annapolis Royal: Possibly the oldest, privately owned, wooden house in Canada. Some additions to house up to the 20th century. Adams-Ritchie House: 1686 [95 ...
York Factory was a settlement and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) factory (trading post) on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba, Canada, at the mouth of the Hayes River, approximately 200 kilometres (120 miles) south-southeast of Churchill.