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Paulin-Chambers Company Limited
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- Paulin's
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Dates of existence
1876-1991
History
The Paulin-Chambers Company Limited, a biscuit manufacturer, was established in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876 and was incorporated in 1899. Paulins (as the company was usually called) was acquired in 1926 by the Canada Biscuit Company Limited of London, Ontario.
The Canada Biscuit Company Limited's name changed to McCormick's Limited in 1935. McCormick was in turn acquired by George Weston Limited in 1937.
In 1972, a number of Weston-owned biscuit companies were amalgamated under the name InterBake Foods. At the time, InterBake Foods operated biscuit plants in London, Ontario (at the former McCormick's Limited factory) and Winnipeg, Manitoba (at the former Paulin's plant).
In 1989, InterBake Foods was sold to the Culinar, Inc., a firm in Montreal, Quebec.
The Paulin's plant in Winnipeg, Manitoba was closed by InterBake Foods in 1991 and production was moved to London, Ontario and to other Culinar-owned plants in Montreal, Quebec. In the mid-1990's, Culinar moved all biscuit manufacturing out of the plant in London, Ontario and into its Montreal-based factories.
Culinar Inc. was, in turn, sold to Saputo Inc., a company based in Montreal, Quebec in 1999.
Dare acquired Culinar's biscuit-related assets in 2001.
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Biscuit manufacturer.
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Created by NM in March 2019.
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The history of the Paulin-Chambers Company was ascertained from a memorandum written by Bryan Dare to the University of Waterloo. Special Collections & Archives, the majority of which has been copied into the history note of this authority record. A physical copy of the memorandum can be found in SCA188-GA420-1-1