The Lake Erie Tobacco Company

摘要

The history of the Lake Erie Tobacco Company Limited is almost as old as the story of tobacco in Ontario. Henry Freeman and William Pelton grew the first crop of tobacco near Lynedoch in 1923. Kingston started the Lake Erie Tobacco Company Limited afew miles away."It's been here virtually as long as tobacco has," said modern general manger Bill Dunsmore. "If you get looking at the history of the company, it parallels the history of the industry." Dunsmore believes Kingston was an American who cameto the area. As far as he knows, the pioneer grower didn't have a history in tobacco. When Kingston died in the late 1930s, the company was left in a trust to be operated by his nephew Fred Ashbaugh.