Canadian Club - Windsor Ontario
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N 42° 19.543 W 083° 00.738
17T E 334195 N 4687902
The Canadian Club distillery is in Windsor on the banks of the Detroit River, where it continues to produce and export its whisky.
Waymark Code: WM2NZA
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 11/28/2007
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Excerpts from Wikipedia:
Canadian Club is part of the Jim Beam portfolio. It is its 4th best-selling alcoholic product, behind Jim Beam, Sauza Tequila and DeKuyper.
Hiram Walker founded his distillery in 1858 in Detroit. He first learned how to distill cider vinegar in his grocery store in the 1830s before moving onto whisky and producing his first barrels in 1854. However, with prohibition looming and Michigan already becoming "dry", Walker decided to move his distillery across the Detroit River to Windsor, Ontario. From here, he was able to export his whisky, continue to perfect the distillation process and start to develop Walkerville, a community that Hiram financed and sourced most of his employees from.
Hiram Walker handed down his distillery to his sons upon his death in 1899. Over the years they have branched out into other businesses. At one point they employed almost the entire population of Walkerville, where they built a police station, fire station, gave them running water and street lights. In 1890 the Canadian government acknowledged Walkerville as an official town, and in 1935 it became part of Windsor.
During the years of Prohibition one of the distillery’s most important clients was Al Capone, who smuggled in thousands of gallons of his favorite drink - Canadian Club - through the liquor pipeline from Windsor to Detroit.
Product manufactured here: Canadian Club Whiskey
Address:
420 Devonshire Rd., Suite 201
Windsor, ON Canada
N8Y 4T6
Web Page: [Web Link]
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