City Dairy Company Limited was a dairy products firm that was established to deliver high-quality milk in the city of Toronto , Ontario. It was founded by Walter Massey (1864–1901), the president of Massey-Harris and a member of the prominent Massey family . It was the first Canadian dairy company to supply pasteurized milk.
8-464: The company was founded after Massey whom opened his Dentonia Park farm in 1897 to raised a herd of dairy cattle. consisting of Guernsey, Jersey and Ayrshire cows. The farm was originally opened to supply milk for the Masseys’, but the booming milk market and Massey’s desire for safer milk resulted in the creation of a commercial dairy operation. Once Massey embarked on being a commercial operation in 1901,
16-557: A model farm and named it "Dentonia Park" after his wife, Susan, whose maiden name was Denton. The Massey farm sold fresh eggs and poultry as well as fresh trout, which was caught in the many streams and rivulets that criss-crossed the farm. The Massey farm was also the home of the City Dairy Company Limited , which produced the first pasteurized milk in Canada. In 1933, Susan Massey donated her mansion and 40 acres (16 ha) of
24-415: Is a multicultural neighbourhood, whose population includes extensive numbers of Bangladeshi , Indian , Jamaican , Pakistani and Tamil Canadians. There are many Bangladeshi-owned businesses near the neighbourhood (Victoria Park-Danforth). Some of the buildings are condominiums (Massey Square), while others are rental apartments (Crescent Place). Toronto council classified Oakridge under Taylor-Massey as
32-602: The City of Toronto with renamed roadway called Cream Top Lane. Other dairy companies that existed before major producers dominated the market were local retailers with some providing delivery by wagons: Crescent Town#History Crescent Town is a neighbourhood in Toronto , Ontario , Canada, in the former borough of East York . It is located near Victoria Park Avenue and Danforth Avenue . It mainly consists of high-rise apartment complexes, built originally to take advantage of
40-458: The Dentonia farm land to Crescent School , where her grandsons were educated. Crescent School operated at the Dentonia site until 1969, when this property was sold to the developers who built the present-day Crescent Town neighbourhood. Crescent Town is considered by some as an interesting experiment in community planning in that all of its pedestrian walkways are located above the street level. It
48-504: The dairy operation continued until it was sold to Borden in 1930 for $ 7 million, which acquired a number of local dairies that competed with City Dairy including Caufiled’s Dairy (c. 1888). The farm closed after Borden took over the processing business and Massey family donated the farm lands. In 1913 City Dairy was one of 15 dairies in Toronto: Walker, Richardson, Briar Hill and Acme where located near each other and commemorated by
56-563: The milk from these cows was sent to a dairy plant at 487 and 563 Spadina Crescent, later known as the Borden Buildings . City Dairy was one of 15 dairies to supply milk to Toronto residents, one of the closest to the city and noted for the use of pasteurization (1903) to rid of deadly food born disease that plagued 19th Century Toronto. By 1915, City Dairy controlled 40 per cent of the milk market in Toronto. Although Massey had died in 1901,
64-410: The opening of the adjacent Victoria Park subway station , which connects to the central quadrangle via a partially covered walkway. In the late 19th century, Walter Massey (1864–1901), a younger son of Hart Massey , Canada's first major industrialist, and uncle to actor Raymond Massey , purchased a 240-acre (97 ha) country property centered on Dawes Road and Victoria Park Avenue. He established
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