Bothwell Cheese - New Bothwell MB
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PeterNoG
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The Bothwell Cheese Factory & Cheese Shop are located at 70 Main St in the small town of New Bothwell, Manitoba which is 33 km southeast of Winnipeg.
Waymark Code: WM96C1
Location: Manitoba, Canada
Date Posted: 07/05/2010
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The Cheese Shop hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Saturdays (summer only - excluding long weekends), 9 am to 3 pm
They also have a Cheese Shop on the second floor of Winnipeg's James Armstrong Richardson International Airport. Here the hours are Monday to Friday 9 am to 6 pm and weekends and holidays from 11 am to 4 pm.
Some of the history of
Bothwell Cheese from their website.
The Bothwell Cheese co-operative was formed by Frank Giesbrecht and Bernhard Dueck who galvanized support and labour from local volunteers eager to help build the town's first cheese factory. In June 1936 the plant began operations with Corny Unger as the first Master Cheesemaker. In those early years farmers hauled the raw milk themselves in milk cans to the factory that was then made into cheese. Pasteurization didn't begin in Manitoba until 1954. Around that time, farmers made about 1/2 a cent for each pound of milk they sold. Bothwell sold the cheese for about 30 cents a pound.
In those days, local children would visit the plant and fill paper bags with cheese curds to take home. Today, only the employees are allowed near the production process but visitors can come to our cheese shop and buy curds, that are often still warm.