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Dare sales wagon at H. K. Forler

Photograph of Ralph Doerr and William Kettleborne standing next to a horse-drawn C.H. Doerr & Co. sales wagon outside of the H. K. Forler storefront in Wellesley.

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Scrapbook.

File consists of one scrapbook that was used to record the history of The Dare Company Limited, Major Foods Limited, Dare Foods Limited and subsidiary, newspaper and magazine advertisements, new product announcements, appointment notices, and article clippings. The date and source of each clipping is noted. The scrapbook also includes samples of product packaging, articles on the opening of the biscuit plant in Surrey, B.C., and 3 black and white photographs. The scrapbook was most likely produced at the Kitchener head office and is organized chronologically.

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Dare sales wagon

Photograph of Ralph Doerr and William Kettleborne seated in the passenger seat of a horse-drawn C. H. Doerr & Co. sales wagon, along a dirt road in Wellesley.

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Howe Candy Company Xmas Party.

Contains 2 black and white photographs of the Howe Candy Company Christmas party held at Knight Hall, Hamilton in 1944. The photograph is an image of a group of staff sitting and standing behind a banquet table.

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Grissol and Loney's products.

Twenty photographs of various Grissol products, possibly used for marketing and advertising purposes, including bread sticks, Melba toast, toasted bread, rusks, Dutch rusks, bread crumbs, browned flour, croutons, ready mix stuffing, corn puffs, cheese pops, pretzel sticks, pretzel rings, bits n pieces, pretzels, cookies, and different flavours of Loney's soup bases and soup mixes. Many of the photographs show product packaging written in both English and French.

This file also includes two memorandums written by Bryan Dare providing detailed historical information about the history of Grissol, Loney's, and their relationship to Dare Foods Limited.

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Product photographs.

Contains 74 colour photographs of biscuit products. The file includes 19 photographs from a picture book, product photographs, a sign for and a clipping advertising the reusable Dare Lunch Box biscuit packaging.

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Major Foods Limited picture book.

Contains one Major Foods Limited, Kitchener, Ontario picture book of product photographs. File includes 28 spare colour photographs of biscuit products, one photograph of the biscuit plant, and one photograph of candy products.

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Product photographs.

Contains black and white and colour photographs of biscuit products. File includes photographs of biscuits that were used on packaging, photographs of store displays, and product photographs.

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Dare Foods Limited picture book.

Contains one Dare Foods Limited, Kitchener, Ontario, picture book of product photographs. File includes 53 colour photographs of biscuit products, and three photographs of in-store displays including one of a potato chip display.

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Dare Foods Limited : products.

Contains colour photographs of cookie products, cookie tin tie and cellophane packages, various candies, candy brochures and price lists. Includes images of special occasion candies such as Valentine's Day, Easter.

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Product photographs and price sheets.

Contains 40 colour photographs of biscuit and candy products, price lists, and product brochures. The price lists are for candy products and include weight, pack size, and list price and are attached to a product brochure.

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Product photographs and brochures.

Contains 74 colour photographs of cookie products divided into tin tie photographs and cellophane photographs. Brochures of candy products are also included.

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Product photographs and packaging.

Contains samples of boxboard, cellophane and tin tie packages, 22 colour photographs of cookie products, colour and black and white photographs of store displays, a coupon, and a brochure for Krispin rye crackers.

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Old candy photos.

Holiday candy and seasonal brochures, and six colour photographs of store displays. Also included are six colour photographs advertising the new Dare tote bag and popular recloseable fan-top bag, and a price list for Halloween candy from 1970.

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Packaging samples, brochures and photographs (file 1 of 2).

Contains samples of cellophane and tin tie packages, product brochures, signs, promotions and coupons, advertisements, a Dare Foods Limited corporate policy and history, and 18 colour and 13 black & white photographs of products.

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Brochures (file 1 of 2).

Contains product brochures, posters, advertisements, and promotions for candy products. Includes three colour photographs.

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Old photographs.

Contains brochures, tin tie biscuit packages, and colour photographs of products and store displays.

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Photographs : 1986, 1985 and older.

Contains 39 product and display photographs, brochures, memoranda, price sheets, copies of articles sent to sales representatives, information about promotions, for primarily candy products although biscuit and cracker products are included.

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National Sales Meeting, Banff : September 1989.

Contains one scrapbook style photograph album documenting the National Sales Meeting held in Banff, 1989. The album includes copies of correspondence and 82 colour snapshots of Dare Foods Limited employees participating in conference activities, meals, and receptions.

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Photographs of promotional displays.

Contains 49 colour snapshots of promotional displays and includes photographs of the Fun and Safety with Fudge, and Back to School display contest winners. File also includes a photocopy of a newspaper advertisement.

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Back to school photographs.

Contains 93 colour snapshots of Back to School store displays that are organized by regions Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic, West with the name of the designer beside the photograph or photographs. File includes memoranda to sales personnel about displays.

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Specialty tin tie display contest.

Contains photographs and explanations of winning and honourable mention displays from all regions, memoranda and advertisement to all Dare sales personnel advertising the contest, and photographs of a party. Winning sales personnel were awarded a trip to San Francisco.

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Alice in Wonderland photographs.

Contains 71 colour photographs documenting the production of the Dare Foods Limited television advertisement "Alice in Wonderland."

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Treasure Island photographs.

Contains four colour photographs documenting the production of the Dare Foods Limited television advertisement "Treasure Island."

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Banquet for Rhea.

File consists of eight photographs of a banquet given in honour of Rhea [unknown last name].

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Dare airplane.

File consists of seven photographs of an airplane owned by Carl Dare.

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Product information sheets

Contains product information sheets for cookie, candy, and cracker products. The sheets include colour photographs of the products, a description of the product and its package, the package universal product code (UPC), the shipping case code, and the pack number. Many sheets are bilingual. File also includes 3 colour photographs of Breton cracker products and Bremner Biscuit Company information sheets.

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C.H. Doerr and Company : staff and exterior of plant.

Photograph of employees standing outside of C.H. Doerr & Co. Biscuit & Confectionery Works looking at camera. They are seen standing on the front steps of the building and next to horse-drawn delivery buggies parked along the side.

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C.H. Doerr and Company : exterior of plant.

Photograph of the exterior of the C.H. Doerr & Co. Confectionery Works building. A man in a suit and hat is standing in the front doorway and a driver is visible standing on a horse drawn cart piled with boxes at the side of the building.

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C.H. Doerr and Company : staff.

Contains two black and white photographs. Copy prints of the recto and the verso of a postcard. The postcard was sent from Lawrence [Englert] to his sister, Rose Englert in Michigan [ca. 1905]. The text reads, "Dear Sister: Thank you for that beautiful neck-tie you sent me. This is a picture of a few at the shop, taken at Supper time, while we were at night work. Lawrence." The postcard image is of 13 men and women in the interior of the C.H. Doerr Company plant.

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C.H. Doerr and Company : delivery sleigh.

Photograph of John Doerr sitting in the driver’s seat of a C.H. Doerr & Co. Biscuit & Confectionery delivery sleigh pulled by two horses. Two large houses are visible in the background.

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C.H. Doerr and Company : shipping room.

Print copy photograph of three employees in the C.H. Doerr and Company shipping room. Two are seen standing behind a long counter and another is standing beside piles of boxes.

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Dare, Carl and airplane.

File consists of one photograph of Carl Dare, Ed Jones and Phil Ganci with Dare's airplane. Also includes two clippings about the airplane from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record.

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C.H. Doerr and Company : interior of plant.

Photograph of men and women employees, some seen wearing white aprons, standing beside machinery inside the C.H. Doerr & Company building, likely the the biscuit manufacturing section of the plant.

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C.H. Doerr and Company : plant.

Contains one black and white photograph mounted on board. The photograph is an image of two men with cars standing outside of the C.H. Doerr plant. File includes a slide that is a copy of the original.

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Doerr, C.H. sitting at desk.

Photograph of C.H. Doerr sitting at his desk, legs crossed and a piece of paper in hand. Dressed in a suit and tie, he is posed looking off camera.

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The Dare Company Limited : old photos.

Contains nine colour photographs, two colour slides, a list of the people and their positions in a photograph of the delegates to the first annual sales convention in 1948, a letter and story written by Orpha Kinzie, a copy of the song "King of the Shelf" written by Roy K. Downey and Tom Willoughby, a copy of the score for the song "Dare Cookies" written by Greg Adams and Peter Proudman and Eric Robertson. The photographs and negatives are images of the filming of a television commercial, biscuit products, store displays and the advertisement for the 1976 Pinto contest. The negatives are images of a staff convention.

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The Dare Company Limited : 1950's plant, people.

Contains 22 colour slides. The slides are images of staff at an awards ceremony, interior of a plant, groups of staff, staff at the Christmas luncheon, store displays, store logos, the exterior of the Surrey plant, the Dare Bears van.

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Leo Haak photographs.

Photographs taken by Leo Haak of biscuit and candy store displays, people standing outside the Dare Foods Limited potato chip plant, women standing beside a Dare Foods Limited sign.

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The Dare Company Limited : photos.

Contains one binder labelled "Photos." The binder contains a black and white newspaper advertisement "Our first customer" [ca. 1967]; a Union Carbide plastic products advertisement featuring Dare biscuits; black and white photographs of products; portraits of staff; the interior and exterior of the plant in Surrey, B.C.; new wage agreement at the Surrey plant; an advertisement for a contest; and store displays. The majority of the photographs are labelled.

  • Bill Mitchell, 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • J.D. Burke, 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • John McKay, 2 photographs : b&w ; 12 x 17 cm
  • John McKay, Doug Soanes, Ken O’Hara, Jack Graham, and C.M. Dare at the plant in Surrey, B.C. January, 1962, 2 photographs : b&w ; 17 x 13 cm
  • Dare Coconut creams, 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
  • Dare Whole Wheat Digestive biscuits, 2 photographs : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm
  • Dare Potato Chips, 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
  • Dare Candy Chest of Fruit Jellies, 2 photographs : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm
  • Bert Luckhurst, Peterboro, 1 photograph : b&w; on mount 22 x 27 cm
  • Dare Foods personnel, Mr. J. M. Lumby (left), members of the Employees’ Committee, and Mr. K. K. O’Hara (left centre) are shown with Mr. William White of Local 457 of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union, after satisfactory negotiation of a new wage agreement at the Surrey plant, 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
  • Mr. K. K. O’Hara (left) of Dare Foods shown here with Mr. William White of Local 475 of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union after satisfactory negotiation of a new wage agreement., 1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm
  • Bill Gill, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • Tom Warren, 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 18 cm
  • John Bull, 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 17 cm
  • B. Sanders, 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 18 cm
  • D. Grischow, 1photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • C.A. Preistman, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • J.M. Langley, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • Deal B, 1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 26 cm
  • Deal A, 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 26 cm
  • Dare biscuit display, 1 photograph : colour ; 13 x 18 cm
  • Dare's potato chip display, 1 photograph : colour ; 13 x 18 cm
  • Dare Lemon Cremes, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
  • Product display, 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 26 cm
  • Dare's and Dare potato chips, 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 26 cm
  • Dare Chocolate Chip cookies, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • Saratoga by Dare's potato chips, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • Dare products and space exploration buttons, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • Devonsheer Melba Toast by Dare's, 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 10 cm
  • Dare Romper Room and Peanut Crunch biscuits, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • Step Right Up Folks promotion, 1 photograph : b&w ; 23 x 17 cm
  • Dare Delicious! display, 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 26 cm
  • John McKay standing beside machinery at the Surrey plant, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm ; 21 x 26 cm
  • Machinery at the Surrey plant, 2 photographs : b&w ; 17 x 13 cm ; 21 x 26 cm
  • Interior of Surrey plant, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
  • Display, 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 15 cm
  • Exterior of Surrey plant, 1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 11 cm

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Dare Foods Candy Division, Hamilton, Ontario.

Contains one black and white photograph. The photograph is an image of the Dare Foods (Candy Division) plant in Hamilton, Ontario. This plant was previously the Howe Candy Company plant.

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Dare, Carl.

File consists of six upper body portrait photographs of Carl Dare.

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The Dare Company Limited : photos from the 1970s.

Contains three colour photographs. The photographs are images of two men standing in front of a biscuit display, a man shaking C.M. Dare's hand at an awards ceremony, and three people standing in front of a rock decorated with aboriginal art in Australia.

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Retirement of an old friend.

Contains one colour photograph of the original band oven before demolition. The band oven was used in the biscuit plant from June 1944 to November 1972.

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Dare, C.M.

Contains one colour photograph portrait of C.M. Dare.

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Dare, C.M.

Contains one colour photograph portrait of C.M. Dare.

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The Dare Company Limited : Kitchener people.

Contains 18 colour slides. The slides are images of people from the Kitchener head office. The people are sitting at desks in offices, at meetings, and a few slides include employees playing baseball for the Flying Angels baseball team.

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1972 strike.

File consists of material relating to the 1972 strike at the Dare Foods Limited biscuit plant in Kitchener, including the return of employees to work after the strike and the court case between the company and several employees regarding a breach of injunction. Includes newspaper clippings, internal and external correspondence and memoranda, notices and press releases from the company, a notice of motion and the decision regarding the court case (photocopies), photographs, reports and data on the numbers of employees returned to work, etc.

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The Dare Company Limited : Ontario store logos.

Contains 20 colour slides. The slides are images of Ontario store logos including A&P, No Frills, National Grocers, LOEB IGA, Knechtel, Shoppers Drug Mart, Mr. Grocer, Zehrs, Food City, Dominion, Mann's EMA Foods, IGA Foods, and Loblaws.

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The Dare Company Limited : Breton oven slides.

Contains 30 colour slides. The slides are images of the various stages of Breton cracker production at the Kitchener plant. The slides includes images of the oven in operation, staff working on the production line, detailed images of the oven, and finally images of the machine that packs the crackers into the shipping boxes. The slides are numbered in order.

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Dare Foods Limited and biscuit truck.

Contains one colour photograph. The photograph is an image of the exterior of the Dare Foods Limited plant. A Dare Biscuits and Bonbons truck is parked outside the plant.

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The Dare Company Limited : Edi Launch Day and staff.

Contains six colour photographs and 13 negatives. The photographs are images of an Edi Launch Day cake, staff, and Edi Launch cutting the cake. Photographs of six men in a warehouse are also included.

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The Dare Company Limited : men holding a cake.

Contains one colour photograph. The photograph is an image of six men, two of whom are holding a cake. The men are dressed formally and have buttons on that read "Dare Quality Service 1892." The words "M. Watson" are written on the reverse of the photograph.

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Maillet, Jean-Guy : Moncton.

Contains two colour photographs. One photograph is an image of Jean-Guy Maillet in his Moncton office, December 1986.

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The Dare Company Limited : staff.

Contains 18 colour slides. The slides are images of staff at special events. A slide of the exterior of a building, and a slide of a Dare Bears Back to School promotional sign are also included. Several of the slides are labelled.

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The Dare Company Limited : Western Canada store logos.

Contains 27 colour slides. The slides are images of the exterior of stores in Western Canada including Safeway, Food City Superstore, Co-op, save-easy, agnew, Co-op Centre, and Village. File also includes images of staff, biscuit products, and staff working at the Kitchener head office and plant.

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The Dare Company Limited : outside of buildings.

Contains four colour slides. The slides are images of the exterior of Dare Foods Limited buildings. The buildings include the head office and plant in Kitchener, and the candy plant in Hamilton as well as two other buildings.

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