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The building was opened as a commercial bakery by the Ideal Bread Company in 1919, which merged into Wonder Bakeries. The building was owned by the company until 1957. After designation under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act in 2003, [ 1 ] the building was turned into residential lofts in 2007 (now known as the Argyle Lofts) by Core Architects .
Canada Bread was founded in June 1911 following the merger of five of Canada's leading baking companies: Bredin Bread Company, Model Bakery (founded by George Weston), Toronto Bakery, Stuarts Limited and Boyd's Bakery. The founders of these acquired bakeries, their companies no longer theirs, agreed not to compete with Canada Bread, in bread ...
Christie is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. 1920 – Robert Jaffray, struck with cancer, sells the bakery to a group of New York investors. A non-compete clause is included which stipulated that no Christie would go into the baking business. 1926 – Robert Jaffray Christie dies [5] 1928 – Nabisco acquires Christie, Brown and Company.
Batter & Mac's hours are slated for 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Classes will be in the evenings, weekends and days when Batter & Mac is ...
He is the co-founder, with his wife Linda Haynes, of ACE Bakery Limited, a Toronto, Ontario bakery serving wholesale and retail customers in Canada and the American east coast. He and his wife sold the company to a private equity firm in 2008. It is now owned and operated by George Weston Limited of Toronto. From 1965 until 1996 Martin occupied ...
George Weston's first bakery, where he developed his "Real Home-Made Bread", Sullivan Street, Toronto, c. 1895. Eventually, George became a bread salesman, and in 1882, he bought a bread route from Bowen. [5] Two years later, he bought out the bakery of his former employer. Years later, George Weston recalled those early days: "I baked 250 ...
While the Model Bakery established George Weston as Canada's biggest baker, he had already begun to move beyond bread into other lines of baked goods. Model Bakery "biscuit travellers" or salesmen, Soho and Phoebe streets, Toronto, postcard, ca. 1910. By 1897, he had set up a separate shop for the making of cakes, crumpets, pastries and buns.
In 1996, Maple Leaf Bakery UK was established in Rotherham as a speciality bakery subsidiary of Canada Bread which in turn is 89.8% owned by Maple Leaf Foods. It operates from a total of six sites in the UK and employs around 1,200 employees.