First Cheese Factory National Historic Event
Ingersoll, Ontario
First Cheese Factory
(© The Canadian Encyclopedia)
Address :
Charles Street West, Ingersoll, Ontario
Recognition Statute:
Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date:
1931-05-28
Other Name(s):
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First Cheese Factory
(Designation Name)
Importance:
Cooperative factory system, 1864, beginning of modern dairy industry
Plaque(s)
Existing plaque: in the Post Office Charles Street West, Ingersoll, Ontario
The first cheese factory in Canada was established in the county of Oxford, in 1864. The widespread adoption of the co-operative factory system in this and other counties marked the beginning of the modern dairying industry in Eastern Canada. The Canadian Dairymen's Association was founded at Ingersoll in 1867.