Contains price lists for Valentine candy sold East of Lakehead, Lakehead and West, and in Newfoundland. Price lists describe products, package weight, case weight, cubic feet of case, and net price delivered to stores and warehouses. Products are listed in categories of packaging type.

Contains price lists for Halloween candy sold East of Lakehead, Lakehead and West, and in Newfoundland. Price lists describe products, package weight, case weight, cubic feet of case, and net price delivered to stores and warehouses. Products are listed in categories of packaging type.

Contains price lists for Christmas candy sold East of Lakehead, Lakehead and West, and in Newfoundland. Price lists describe products, package weight, case weight, cubic feet of case, and net price delivered to stores and warehouses. Products are listed in categories of packaging type.

Contains price lists for Daretubs candy sold East of Lakehead, Lakehead and West, and in Newfoundland. Price lists describe products, package weight, case weight, cubic feet of case, and net price delivered to stores and warehouses. Products are listed in categories of packaging type.

Contains price lists for Two Cent, 5¢ and 10¢ and Specialty Items candy sold East of Lakehead, Lakehead and West, and in Newfoundland. Price lists describe products, number of pieces per box, package weight, case weight, cubic foot of case, and net price delivered to stores and warehouses. Products are listed in categories of packaging type.

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

Series consists of one issue of Dare Candy News 1, no. 1 (spring 1976), the Dare Foods Limited internal newspaper publication on candy.

File consists of financial statement for Dare Foods Limited for the year 1962 prepared by Thorne, Mulholland, Howson & McPherson.

Contains formulas for marshmallow products, correspondence, production notes, and packing information, Standard Cost Cards from the Pann Room listing costs of ingredients.

A television advertisement (commercial) for Simple Pleasures cookies, a cookie line made by Dare Foods Limited. The commercial is titled, "Jukebox." The commercial was produced with TBWA/Chiat/Day advertising agency. The videocassette includes one version of the commercial recorded in English and another version recorded in French. Individually, the running time for each version of the commercial is 30 seconds.

File consists of a bound, hardcover book about the ingredients and the manufacture of cookies and crackers, prepared for a baking and icing conference of the Technical Institute of the Independent Biscuit Manufacturers' Company. Book belonged to J.B. Russell.

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. Letterhead, display signs, copies of the Dare Foods Limited Christmas card [ca. 1996], and an article reprinted from Fancy Food are also included.

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.

Contains four sheets including Coconut Creme Cookies, Lemon Creme Cookies, Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Chocolate Fudge Cookies packaging. File also includes three copies of a poster advertising the custom products division.

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.

Photograph of employees and a horse drawn delivery sleigh, stacked with boxes, outside of the C.H. Doerr & Co. Biscuit & Confectionery Works buildings.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Photograph of John Doerr sitting in the driver's seat of the Doerr's Candies delivery car in front of The Gettas Restaurant on May 1, 1916.

Series consists of licences in mortmain, accounts, stock options, correspondence, real estate and equipment leases and bills of sale, estimate for a contract, taxation records, and a share certificate book. Records pertain to The Dare Company, Limited, The Howe Candy Company Limited and Major Foods Limited.

Series consists of photographs of Dare Foods Ltd. buildings, processes, and employees.

One copy of an organizational manual for Dare Foods Limited created between 1961 and 1962. The manual outlines the responsibilities and relationships of individuals within the company's management team.

File consists of a licence in mortmain to The Dare Company, Limited.

Series consists of packaging used for Dare biscuits.

File consists of one envelope for The C.H. Doerr Co. Ltd.

Photographs of Dare Foods Limited’s head office, potato chip division building and employees.

Contains a day book that is handwritten and lists employees, amount paid for pay periods, and number of days worked.

Series consists of photographs and negatives of Dare employees, products, and locations. Includes photographs of Dare subsidiaries as well.

File consists of clippings documenting the 1972 strike at Dare Foods.

Series consists of clippings of newspaper articles on Dare Foods Limited from four different newspapers. Series includes clippings from the Tavistock Gazette, Toronto Star, Kitchener Daily Record, and Kitchener This Week.

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.

Contains a handwritten notebook with notes on pumps.

File consists of material relating to training conferences of the Technical Insitutte of the Independent Biscuit Manufacturers' Company. Includes conference programs and lists of attendees, judges' comments on cookies and crackers from different companies, and ms. notes and completed tests from conference sessions.

File consists of financial statement for Dare Foods Limited for the year 1963 prepared by Thorne, Mulholland, Howson & McPherson.

A television advertisement (commercial) for Simple Pleasures cookies, a cookie line made by Dare Foods Limited. The commercial is titled, "Muskoka Chair." The commercial was produced with Reason Partners (previously Holmes & Lee) advertising agency.

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.

Photograph of employees women standing beside machinery in the interior of the C.H. Doerr & Company building, likely the candy manufacturing section of the plant.

Photograph of employees posed for the camera with sweet cream sodas boxes and biscuits inside the C.H. Doerr & Company building.

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.

Contains one black and white photograph. The photograph is an image of men standing in a store room. In the foreground are wooden Doerr's Candies pails piled high. The pails were used to ship candy.

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.

Contains five copies of a black and white photograph. The photograph is an image of portrait of C.H. Doerr Company Limited staff outside of the plant.

Contains two black and white photographs. The photograph is a portrait of Dare Company staff seated outside the plant in Kitchener.

Contains two black and white photographs. The photographs are a portrait of the Dare Company staff at a party.

Contains one black and white aerial photograph. The photograph is an image of the Dare Company Limited biscuit plant in Sunnyside, Kitchener.

File consists of a catalogue of cookie dies manufactured by the Werner Machinery Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Catalogue belonged to W.J. Hopp.

Series consists of one copy of The Dare Story and colour transparencies that were used in the book. Also known as the "green history book," The Dare Story, was published in February 1988. The book provides a brief history of Dare Foods Limited, an outline of the Dare philosophy, and an outline of Dare Foods Limited's vision for the future, as well as many colour images of staff, products and production.

File consists of financial statement for Dare Foods Limited and its subsidiary companies and Dare Foods (Biscuit Division) Limited for the year 1964 prepared by Thorne, Mulholland, Howson & McPherson. Manuscipt note on cover reads "Combined means that all inter-company transactions are netted out."

Contains material relating to The Canada Starch Company Limited, Montreal and candy making. The file contains a quotation for the price of filter presses, notes, two pieces of correspondence between J.R. Worthington and The Canada Starch Company Limited, a report of analysis, a list of Howe candy samples, and the article:
Stroud, Jordan and Louis A. Wills. "How to solve problems in sirup[sic] making and use." Food Industries (April 1945): 100-102 (reprint).

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

A press release issued by Dare Foods Limited regarding Whippet cookies debut in stores across the United States of America. Previously, Whippet cookies were only available for purchase in Canada.

The press release was created in partnership with Carris & Associates. The press release was originally housed in a presentation folder, which is included in the file.

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.

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.

Contains two black and white photographs of Dare's biscuit displays. File also includes a clipping of The Dare Company Limited, Dare's Biscuits letterhead, 1957.

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.

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

Contains one black and white photograph. The photograph is an image of the exterior of the Dare Foods potato chip division plant in Toronto, 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.

Contains one black and white photograph. The photograph is an image of the Dare Foods biscuit bakery plant in North Surrey, British Columbia.

Contains one black and white photograph. The photograph is an image of the Dare Foods Limited head office and biscuit bakery plant in Kitchener, Ontario.

Contains one black and white photograph. The photograph is an image of the exterior of the Silver Tip Warehouse in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Contains articles on pH and The Candy Maker, Brix° and Baume°, To the New Berks Mixer Operators, and magazine clippings.

File consists of material relating to a strike by workers at the Dare Foods Limited biscuit plant in Surrey, British Columbia, in 1967. Includes newspaper clippings and a pamphlet issued by the Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union of America, AFL-CIO.

Series consists of Candy Division files. The first file contains candy formulas. The second file contains correspondence and maps of Candy Division property in Hamilton and Toronto.

File consists of financial statement for Dare Foods Limited and its subsidiary company and Dare Foods (Biscuit Division) Limited for the year 1965 prepared by Thorne, Mulholland, Howson & McPherson.

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

Three television advertisements (commercials) for RealFruit Gummies, a line of candy products made by Dare Foods Limited. The commercials were produced with Zig Inc., a digital media agency. The commercials are titled, “Pineapple,” “Crunch,” and “Bobbing.” Individually, the running time for each commercial is 15 seconds.

Contains 21 colour slides. The slides are images of candy and biscuit products, products on store shelves, a woman filling a candy package, and flag poles on a lawn.

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.

Contains two colour photographs and 12 negatives. The photographs and negatives are staff in their offices at the Kitchener head office.

Contains two black and white photographs. The photographs are images of new GMC Dare delivery trucks.

Contains two colour photographs of the Montreal sales meeting and party. One photograph is an image of Don Hamilton, winner of the coloured television set, at the party.

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.

Contains one colour photograph of three Dare staff standing in front of a display of Dare products. The display appears to be at an exhibition.

Contains 10 colour slides. The slides are images of staff sitting at their desks at the Kitchener head office. One slide is an image of two cars parked outside the head office.

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

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

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.

Two DVDs each containing an identical compilation of various television advertisements (commercials) created between 1966 and 2002 for products made by Dare Foods Limited. Some of the advertisements are recorded in English and some are recorded in French. Copies of these commercials were originally donated to Special Collections & Archives on videocassettes in accession GA163. The videocassettes were digitized in 2006 by Dare Foods Limited and made available on the DVDs in this file.

Videocassettes from GA163 that were digitized and are now available on these DVDs include:

SCA188-GA163-27-314. Includes commercials titled, “Dream Sweet Dare,” “Tree House,” “Meadow,” and “Hansel & Gretel.”

SCA188-GA163-27-315. Includes commercials titled, “Tree House," "Meadow," "Hansel & Gretel," and "Ingredient." 

SCA188-GA163-27-316. Includes commercials titled, "Treehouse," "Meadows," "Hansel & Gretel," "Swing," "Fishing," "Farm," "Chocolate Chip," "Variety," "Alice in Wonderland," "Treasure Island," "School Bus," "Gym," and "Dans l'Air." Several commercials are in French including "Chocolate Chip," "Alice in Wonderland," "Treasure Island," and "Dans l'Air."

SCA188-GA163-27-322. Includes commercials titled, "Dare Devils," "Time Out,” “Ingredient,” “Dare Delicious,” “Opera,” “Jason,” “Tough Boss,” “Lost Boy,” “Dad’s Cookies,” and “Peak Freen.”

SCA188-GA163-27-329. Includes the commercial titled, “On Its Own."

SCA188-GA163-27-331. Includes the commercial titled, “Dare Cookies."

SCA188-GA163-27-333. Includes the commercial titled, “Dare Bears."

SCA188-GA163-27-335. Includes the commercial titled, “Dare Bears."

SCA188-GA163-27-338. Includes commercials titled, “Say When,” “Brussells,” “Party is Tomorrow,” “Elfin Loaves,” and “Man up at Night.”

SCA188-GA163-27-340. Includes the commercial titled, “Black Forest Belmont."

SCA188-GA163-27-344. Includes the commercials titled, “Frere Jacques” and “Dare Bears.”

SCA188-GA163-27-346. Includes the commercial titled, “Featuring Dare's Tin Tie Cookies."

SCA188-GA163-27-348. Includes the commercial titled, "Anything Goes."

SCA188-GA163-27-350. Includes the commercial titled, “Soft Spot.”

SCA188-GA163-27-351. Includes the commercial titled, “Whippet le Lait." 

SCA188-GA163-27-353. Includes the commercial titled, “Le mondial.”

File consists of financial statement for Dare Foods Limited and its subsidiary company Dare Foods (Candy Division) Limited and Dare Foods (Biscuit Division) Limited for the year 1966 prepared by Thorne, Mulholland, Howson & McPherson.

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.

File consists of one photograph of a display of Dare cookies at Zehrs in Fairview Plaza.

Series consists of bilingual ingredient lists for biscuits and candy products, correspondence, memoranda, copies of legislation pertaining to labelling of foods, and French translations of ingredients and product names.

Contains correspondence, formulas and pamphlets pertaining to pectin jellies.

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.

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.

Contains two black and white photographs of the Dare Foods candy division plant in Hamilton.

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.

Contains five colour aerial photographs. The photographs are images of the Dare plant in Kitchener from two different angles.

Contains two colour photographs and 25 negatives. The photographs and negatives are images of a staff banquet.

Contains four black and white aerial photographs of the Kitchener head office and biscuit plant. Several of the photographs have been edited.

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.

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.

Contains one image of a man standing in front of a candy display in a store. The words "M. Watson" are written on the reverse of the photograph.

File consists of one photograph of a display of Dare cookies in a general store in Carcross, Yukon.

Two copies of an advertisement for Grissol products. One copy is recorded in English and has a running time of 55 seconds. The other copy is recorded in French and has a running time of 40 seconds.

Series consists of the Big V Drug Stores twentieth and twenty-fifth anniversary books. The twenty-fifth anniversary book includes a letter addressed to Richard Harris, District Sales Manager for Dare Foods Limited, Kitchener from Mahlon M. Dyer, Executive Vice-President, Big V Pharmacies Co. Limited, London, Ontario. The books consist of black and white photographs of Big V staff, stores, events, and includes some text.

File consists of financial statement for Dare Foods Limited and its subsidiary company Dare Foods (Candy Division) Limited and Dare Foods (Biscuit Division) Limited for the year 1967 prepared by Thorne, Gunn, Helliwell & Christenson.