Demise of Canadian Canners Ltd,
the famous packers of Aylmer/Del Monte line of Quality food products.
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| Joseph Rider, 2012 |
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| SIMCOE CANNING CO. |
Like so many multi-million-dollar Canadian businesses, Canadian Canners Ltd., closed a few plants at a time ~ then disappeared for good. Simcoe, Dresden, Vancouver, Penticton, Hamilton, St. Catharines, St. Davids, Toronto, Exeter. Jobs gone, processing plants closed and abandoned, replaced by cheap labor and imported food. Read a detailed account by an insider with forty years in the cannery production. Read how Canadian Canners went from fifty plants in 1957 to five in 1991. None exist today.
A well-documented, 235 page, soft-cover book including numerous color photographs, a chronological history of Canadian Canners Ltd.
Joe Rider lives in Brantford, ON. He spent his early years in Haldimand County and Hamilton, Ontario.
