- SCA188-GA163-21-150
- File
- [ca. 1957]
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Dare's Pecan Sandies Cookies one-pound tin tie package. Pecan Sandies were shortbread and pecan cookies.
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Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Dare's Pecan Sandies Cookies one-pound tin tie package. Pecan Sandies were shortbread and pecan cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Dare's Fruit Cookies one-pound tin tie package.
Dare Foods Limited
Dare's Double Chocolate Fudge Sandwich Biscuits.
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Dare's Double Chocolate Fudge Sandwich Biscuits one-pound package.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains Cookie Jar packages. The Cookie Jar was a 32 ounce or 17.6 ounce package containing 4, 6 or 8 varieties of assorted cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains 14 Chocolate Chip Cookies tin tie packages. File includes 8 ounce, 14.1 ounce, 16 ounce, and 32 ounce packages.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Florida Cremes cellophane package. The package contained 35 lemon and orange flavoured biscuits. The writing on the package is in orange, yellow, white and bronze.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Swirls cellophane package. Swirls were lemon flavoured biscuits. The package contained one pound of biscuits.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Tea-time cellophane package. The package contained 35 biscuits.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains two Chocoroons cellophane packages. Chocoroons were coconut and chocolate chip biscuits. Each package contained 24 biscuits.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Caramel Crunch cellophane package. The package contained 50 biscuits.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of one Christmas card from Dare Foods for the year 1953 featuring a cartoon illustration by Ken Gray.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains a ledger with “Kambly” written in the front. Ledger contains 1st to 10th period accounting, and accounts receivable.
Dare Foods Limited
Biscuit and cracker correspondence course : lessons 19-27.
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of material relating to a correspondence course on biscuits and crackers taken by W. J. Hopp from the Technical Institute of the Independent Biscuit Manufacturers' Company. Includes lessons 19-27 and the tests for each lesson completed by Hopp and graded by institute staff.
Dare Foods Limited
Notice of death of Mr. Harry Morrison.
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of one notice sent to store owners regarding the death of territorial sales representative Harry Morrison. The back of the notice lists national grocers samples.
Dare Foods Limited
Dare Foods Limited : Western Division
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Series consists of the proposal to form Dare Foods (Western Division) Limited, plans and blueprints, plant opening ceremony records, insurance records, photographs, and sale records.
Dare Foods Limited
DARE Centennary Video, 1992, transfer from VHS.
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
A video created to celebrate Dare Foods Limited’s centennial anniversary (1892-1992). The video features a speech from Carl Dare, owner, as well as a variety of photographs from anniversary events and store displays. The video was digitized in 2019 and is available in two digital formats (mp4, avi). The running time of the video is 9 min., 14 sec.
This file also includes one letter written by Bryan Dare to University of Waterloo. Special Collections & Archives briefly describing the purpose of the anniversary video.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Party Pack 9 ounce cellophane package. The package is red, pink, purple, white, and bronze in colour.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Peanut Butter Cremes cookies 9 1/2 ounce cellophane package. The package is red, orange, bronze, white, and black in colour.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Royal Mix 9 1/2 ounce cellophane cookie package. The package is purple, red, white, and bronze in colour.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains eight Sugar Cookies tin tie packages. The packages contained 8, 10, 15, and 15 1/4 ounce of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains three Caramel Chip Cookies tin tie packages. Each package contained one pound of cookies and cost 49¢.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Butterscotch Cremes sandwich biscuits tin tie cookie package. The package contained one pound of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains Lemon Cremes sandwich biscuits [ca. 1960], Lemon Creme Cookies tin tie [1976] and Lemon Creme Cookies boxboard packages [ca. 1981]. The cookies were called Lemon Cremes [ca. 1960] and became Lemon Creme in [1976]. The tin tie packages contained 16 ounces and the boxboard contained 14.1 ounces.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains two Jelly Sponge cellophane packages. The [ca. 1960] package contained one pound of biscuits. The [ca. 197-] package contained 13 ounces of biscuits.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains two Lemon Chiffon cookie packages. The [ca. 1960] package is a cellophane package. The [ca. 1976] is a tin tie package that contained 15.9 ounces of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains seven French Cremes cookies tin tie packages. The packages contained 8, 13 and 16 ounces of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Dare Biscuits : letters patent.
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains the supplementary letters patent to The C.H. Doerr Company, Limited changing the corporate name of the company to that of The Dare Company, Limited dated 1943.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
A video likely produced for retailers to encourage them to carry Dare Foods Limited products in their stores. The video promotes specific products, discusses sales and market growth rates in Canada, as well as Dare Foods Limited distribution and advertising strategies. In addition, the video outlines the Dare Foods Limited business philosophy B.E.S.T. The B.E.S.T. acronym stands for build brands, execute brilliantly, stay flexible, and think big.
Dare Foods Limited
Dare Foods Limited : Dare Foods (Biscuit Division) Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Series consists of formulas for cookies and crackers, a copy of the Biscuit Division Production Control Procedures Manual, and the Biscuit Division Plant Tour. The records were probably kept at the head office in Kitchener, used in Kitchener and possibly Hamilton.
Dare Foods Limited
Permit to employ females and youths overtime.
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of permit from the Government of Ontario allowing C.H. Doerr Candy Company to employ women and youths overtime.
Dare Foods Limited
Biscuit and cracker correspondence course : lessons 28-36.
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of material relating to a correspondence course on biscuits and crackers taken by W. J. Hopp from the Technical Institute of the Independent Biscuit Manufacturers' Company. Includes lessons 28-36 and the tests for each lesson completed by Hopp and graded by institute staff.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of one Christmas card from Dare Foods for the year 1957.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Chocolate Brownie Cookies tin tie package. Chocolate Brownie cookies contained chocolate chips and nut chips. The package contained three dozen or more cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains three Marble Roma cellophane packages. Marble Romas were made with coconut. Each package contained 13 ounces of biscuits.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains two Canadian Teas cellophane packages. Each package includes an ingredient list and contained one pound or 48 biscuits.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains two Choco-Nut cellophane packages. Choco-Nut biscuits were made with walnuts. Each package contained 28 biscuits.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Shortbread Cookies tin tie package. The package contained 14 ounces of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Oatmeal Supreme cookies tin tie package. The package contained 14 ounces of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Country Assortment tin tie package. The Country Assortment package contained one pound of plain and sandwich cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Brown Sugar cookies tin tie package. The package contained one pound of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Grannie Cookies tin tie package. Grannie cookies were made with currants. The package contained 15 ounces of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains two Choco-Bar 10 3/4 ounce cellophane packages. Each package has orange, white, brown, and bronze colouring.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains correspondence, a copy of a mortgage, land appraisals, an order in the Supreme Court of Ontario, trade name licence agreement, and the form “Questions to be answered by persons alleging a foreign substance in product.”
Dare Foods Limited
Dare Foods Limited : Periodicals and Advertising
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Series consists of candy, biscuit and cracker manufacturing industry periodicals, pamphlets, advertisements, correspondence and machinery plans from supply and related companies. The publications were sent to The Dare Company Limited and pertain to candy and biscuit manufacturing.
Dare Foods Limited
Dare cracker sales seminar and dinner menu.
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of one dinner menu from the Dare cracker sales seminar and dinner.
Dare Foods Limited
My career with Dare Foods Limited - Harry Drews.
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
An article written by Harry Drews describing his career working for Dare Foods Limited for 38 years from 1973-2012.
Dare Foods Limited
Biscuit and cracker handbook : Technical Institute.
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of a handbook relating to plant equipment, raw materials, production problems, and formulas for the manufacture of biscuits and crackers, produced by the Technical Institute of the Independent Biscuit Manufacturers' Company. Includes a Spanish-English and English-Spanish glossary of terms used in the biscuit industry. Handbook probably belonged to W.J. Hopp.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Wagon Wheels 12 3/4 ounce cellophane package. The package has brown, red, white, and bronze colouring.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains two Belmont cellophane packages. Belmonts were mallows with a jam centre. Each package held 14 1/2 ounces or 20 biscuits and are blue, bronze, purple, and white in colour.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one King Size 1 1/4 pound cellophane package. The package is purple, red, bronze, and white in colour.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains two Romper Room Cookies tin tie packages. The package is colourful and includes pink, green, blue, brown, yellow, and white. Each package contained one pound of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Pom-Pom Cremes tin tie package. The package held three dozen or more chocolate sandwich biscuits. The package is red, white, and black in colour.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains three Shortbread Twist cellophane packages. The [ca. 1961] package contained 11 1/2 ounces or 40 biscuits. The [ca. 1970] package contained 10 ounces.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains two Maple Leaf Cremes cellophane, one Maple Leaf Creme Cookies tin tie, and one Maple Sugar Creme tin tie packages. The [ca. 1961] package contained one pound or 28 biscuits and is orange, bronze and white in colour. The [1977] package contained eight-and-a-half ounces and is red, white, brown, and bronze in colour. File also contains a Maple Sugar Creme cookie tin tie package that contained one pound of cookies. The Maple Sugar Creme packages preceeded the Maple Leaf Creme packages and also contained one pound of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains Peanut Butter Chip Cookies packages. The Peanut Butter Chip Cookies were introduced in [ca. 1961] and contained both peanut butter and peanut butter chips. The package includes a photographic image of the cookies. File contains both tin tie and boxboard packages.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains two Party Pak two-pound tin tie packages. Party Paks contained a variety of sandwich creme cookies. The orange label packages were available in 1977.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains two Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies tin tie packages. Each package contained 13 ounces of cookies.
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The Dare Company, Limited : supplementary letters patent : change of name.
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains correspondence, an application, petitions, declarations, and extracts from the general by-laws of The Dare Company, Limited. Records pertain to company name changes.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Series consists of one Dare Foods Limited manual on corporate planning and production control. Copies of the manuals were distributed in binders and were produced at the Kitchener office and distributed to employees.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of bulletins and reports from the Biscuit Production Club and the Technical Institute of the Independent Biscuit Manufacturers' Company (both of Chicago, IL). File also includes a letter addressed to "members" from J.C. Russell, production manager at The Dare Company Limited.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of three Dare logos used in the 1950's.
Dare Foods Limited
Dare Foods 2017 Field Selling Tools.
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
A video showcasing the new digital full service sales tools used by TM's at Dare Foods Limited to help them manage their tasks, responsibilities and relationships with retailers more efficiently. The running time for the video is 2 min., 35 sec.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains three Maple Walnut Cookies packages. Each package contained 13 ounces of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains two Malted Milk Cremes Cookies tin tie packages. Each package contained 13 ounces of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains two Best-o-bics cellophane packages. The packages contained 13 and 15 ounces of assorted cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains two Coconut Cremes tin tie packages. Each package contained one pound of sandwich cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains two Chalet Cremes tin tie packages. Each package contained 16 ounces of creme topped cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains three Chocolate Nut Cookies tin tie packages. The package contained 15 1/4 ounces of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Cartwheels Cookies tin tie package. The package contained 16 ounces of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains three Choc-olé Cookies tin tie packages. Each package contained 16 ounces of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains Fudge Chip Cookies tin tie packages from [ca. 197-] and boxboard packages from 1983. File includes 8 ounce, 12 ounce, and 15 ounce tin tie packages. The boxboard package contained 14.1 ounces.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains six Chocolate Fudge Cookies tin tie packages. The packages contained 16 and 32 ounces of chocolate sandwich cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
A journal recording sales made by Dare Foods Limited from 1955-1958.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Marketing and advertising material for Dare Food Limited products. Includes print and television advertisements.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains a day book that is handwritten and lists employees, amount paid for pay periods, and number of days worked.
Dare Foods Limited
Dare Foods Limited : Minutes and Certificate of Shares
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Series consists of the C.H. Doerr Company, Limited and The Dare Company, Limited minutes of annual and special meetings of the shareholders and Board of Directors. A book of share certificates is also included. The minutes consist primarily of decisions regarding the appointment of board members, salaries of board members, by-laws, issuing of stock, the name change from the C.H. Doerr Company, Limited to The Dare Company, Limited as well as other issues. The minutes were typewritten by the Secretary and signed by the President.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of a comparative financial study of 11 biscuit companies, including Dare.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of the by-laws no. 1-10 of the company.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Series consists of material accumulated by William J. Hopp in his role as a baker and plant supervisor at the Dare Company.
Includes material relating to correspondence courses, conferences, and research activities of the Independent Biscuit Manufacturers' Company of Chicago; recipe books containing cookie and cracker formulae used at Dare and possibly other companies (Perrin's Forest City Confectionery and Biscuit Works in London Ontario, Paulin-Chambers Company in Winnipeg, Manitoba); and material relating to the ingredients and manufacture of cookies and crackers.
Includes lessons and manuals, bulletins, correspondence, recipe books, research reports, article reprints, conference programs, catalogues and brochures, and other material.
Dare Foods Limited
Dare Foods Limited : Financial
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Series consists of financial records of Dare Foods Limited. Includes year end reports and credit statements.
Dare Foods Limited
C.H. Doerr display shelf advertisement.
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of one advertisement printed from the web for an antique display shelf originally used by the C.H. Doerr company.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Series consists of ephemera and artefacts created by Dare Foods Ltd. Includes programmes, cards, invitations, a ruler, and more.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
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.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Series consists of letters patent, shares, correspondence, shareholders' meeting records, accounts, financial statements, and bankruptcy records. Contains records pertaining to The Humberstone Shoe Company and Sunbeam Shoes Limited. The series is arranged chronologically.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of one fact sheet about the Dare Milton candy plant from the Dare Milton family day.
Dare Foods Limited
Letter from Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau to Graham Dare and Bryan Dare.
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
A letter to Graham Dare and Bryan Dare from the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. In the letter, the Prime Minister noted that Dare Foods Limited's 125th anniversary is shared with Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of bulletins and correspondence from the Biscuit Production Club and the Technical Institute of the Independent Biscuit Manufacturers' Company, which in 1957 became the Biscuit Bakers Institute, Inc. (both of Chicago, IL). Also present is a list of Biscuit Production Club members.
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Howe Candy Company Xmas Party.
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
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.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of one sales manual for Dare. The manual is divided into the following sections: Introduction; Paper Work; Lease Care; Product Knowledge; Account Classification; Selling Aids; Deals, Promotions, Commitments; Seasonal Candy; Merchandising; Types of Accounts; Selling Formula; Advice, Ideas, Helpful Hints; Realignments; Tin Tie Story; Instructions in Detail.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains four Maple Leaf Creme Cookies tin tie packages. Includes 12.3, 14 and 16 ounce packages.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains three Cookie Tyme cellophane packages. Each package contained one pound of sandwich creme cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Tea Tyme Cookies tin tie package. The package contained 15 ounces of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Digestive Biscuits tin tie package. The package contained one pound of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Swiss Creme Cookies tin tie package. The package contained one pound of cookies. Swiss Creme Cookies were discontinued in 1979.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains two Lunchtime Cookies tin tie packages. Each Lunchtime Cookies package contained 32 ounces of assorted home-style cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Almond Crisp Cookies tin tie package. The package contained 13 ounces of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains five Coconut Creme Cookies packages. Includes 14.1 and 14.5 ounce tin tie packages and 14.1 and 15.9 ounce boxboard boxes.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains one Country Cookies tin tie package. The package contained 14.1 ounces of four cookie varieties.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
Contains four Cinnamon Danish Cookies packages. Each tin tie package contained one pound of cookies. Each boxboard package contained 14.1 ounces of cookies.
Dare Foods Limited
Part of Dare Foods Limited.
File consists of material relating to a search by W.J. Hopp for employment. Includes correspondence from several biscuit companies in the United States and Barbados, two copies of Hopp's resume, and a page of general humour.
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