Canadian Food Brands

Pale gold Lamb's in a six-sided PET bottle at the LCBO. The listing mentions 1849, burnt sugar, and vanilla, and treats it as Caribbean-style cane spirit.

An 1849 blend of 18 Caribbean rums, bottled in Canada by Corby for North America since 1952. The distillation is not Canadian.

Lunenburg's dark shop bottle, priced at $43.30 for 750 mL. The 2012 recipe rides on amber rum, and the cane is Guatemalan.

Twice through the Lunenburg still, from Fancy Grade molasses. One shop note is a six-year bourbon-barrel classic listed at $44.

The dark Cuban bottle with 7 years of age. The brand site pours it into a Golden Mojito, and the distillery town is Santa Cruz del Norte.

A 3-year Cuban rum. Since the 1977 relocation, production sits in the town of Santa Cruz del Norte, inside a Pernod Ricard and Cuba Ron venture.

Miramichi barrel rum, 750 mL, 40% alcohol, $32 at the distillery. It is Gannet's light blend after wood time, one cask per bottling.

Miramichi pot-still rum with caramel added for colour. The live batch splits 2-year and 4-year spirit, 750 mL at 40% alcohol.

Clear Diageo mixer, run through the still five times, built from Caribbean rum. Reference books file the brand under American islands in the Caribbean.

Diageo spiced rum flavoured with vanilla. The UK page shows a 70 cl bottle, and Wikipedia traces the brand to the US Virgin Islands, not to a Canadian pla...

Clear Bacardi dated to 1862, rested in American oak, then charcoal treated. The brand points to Puerto Rico for the big distillery.

Amber Bacardi from toasted oak, with vanilla, ginger, and almond on the page. It is the short gold mixer, separate from Reserva Ocho.

Jamaican pot-and-column blend at 40% alcohol. The stated average age is 4 years, and the estate sits in the Nassau Valley under Campari.

Jamaican rum with a real minimum of 8 years, bottled at 43% alcohol. Joy Spence built it for the estate's 250th anniversary.

Diageo owns Gordon's London Dry Gin and leaves the distillery unnamed. The LCBO stamps a Quebec line on the 1140 ml.

Hampshire vapour-infuses the blue bottle of Bombay Sapphire Gin at Laverstoke Mill. The owner is Bacardi. Production is not Canadian.

Rose and cucumber define Hendrick's Gin, with 11 botanicals behind them. The still house is Girvan. The Grant family owns it. Canada does not.

Beefeater London Dry Gin is distilled in Kennington, London, by Pernod Ricard. Nine botanicals steep for 24 hours. It is not made in Canada.

Tanqueray No. Ten Gin uses whole citrus in Diageo's 500 litre Tiny Ten still. Scotland distils the brand. Canada does not.

Tanqueray London Dry Gin is distilled in Scotland by Diageo. The recipe uses 4 botanicals and dates to 1830. It is not made in Canada.

Cowansville, Quebec fills Ungava Gin after a 5-week steep of 6 Arctic plants. Corby owns the plant. Pernod Ricard SA is the controller.

Dillon's Unfiltered Gin 22 uses local wine grapes and 22 botanicals in Lincoln, Ontario. It is left unfiltered, so it clouds when chilled.

Lincoln, Ontario bottles Dillon's Dry Gin 7 from Ontario rye. The 750 mL shop price is C$40.

Empress 1908 Original Gin is a clear 10-botanical spirit from Sidney, B.C. Canadian water is in the blend. A Texas firm owns it.

Empress 1908 Indigo Gin is distilled in Sidney, B.C., with eight botanicals. Butterfly pea blossom turns it blue. A Texas firm owns it.

Bothwell Smoked Gouda is cold-smoked with maple and hickory in New Bothwell, Manitoba. The 170 g pack shows a Product of Canada mark. A cube has 110 calor...

Bothwell Old Cheddar is aged at least 9 months in New Bothwell, Manitoba. The 170 g pack shows a Product of Canada mark. Sodium in a cube is 190 mg.

Balderson Aged Gouda is a 12 month gouda with a Product of Canada mark and a Made in Canada line. The only listed size is 200 g. Lactalis of France owns i...

Balderson 2 Year Old Cheddar is the brand's most popular age and shows a Product of Canada mark. Ontario milk. Lactalis of France owns the maker.

OKA Light is a milder washed rind with 33 percent less fat than Original. Agropur still owns it, and the milk mark is Canadian. Protein in a cube is 9 g.

Armstrong Pizza Mozzarella is a semi-soft ivory block made in Canada. Saputo in Montreal owns the brand, started in 1902. Sizes are 200 g to 600 g.

Armstrong Havarti is a mild, buttery block made in Canada. Saputo Inc. in Montreal owns the 1902 brand. Sold in 400 g and 600 g.

Cracker Barrel Pizza Mozzarella is a supple block for melting. Lactalis makes the brand in Winchester with Canadian milk. Sodium in one cube is 240 mg.

Cracker Barrel Marble is orange and white cheddar in one block. Lactalis makes it in Winchester, Ontario, with Canadian milk. Fat in a 30 g cube is 10 g.

Balderson Extra Old Cheddar carries a Product of Canada mark and uses Ontario milk. Aging is 14 to 18 months. Lactalis of France owns it.

OKA Classique is a semi-soft washed rind from Oka, Quebec. Agropur Cooperative still owns the brand. The small retail wheel weighs 190 grams.

Armstrong Old Cheddar is a Canada-made block from a 1902 creamery brand. Saputo Inc. in Montreal owns it. Blocks go up to 1.35 kg.

Sharp white cheddar block from Cracker Barrel. Lactalis makes it in Winchester, Ontario, using only Canadian milk. A 30 g cube is 120 calories.

Bearface Triple Oak is owned by Vancouver's Mark Anthony Group. The whisky is aged and blended in Canada, while the base spirit is bought from distillerie...

Canadian Club 100% Rye comes from Alberta rye country, where a team has distilled rye for 60 years. Copyright sits with an import company in New York.

Alberta Premium is a 100% rye distilled in Calgary by Alberta Distillers, from prairie grain. Suntory Global Spirits shares the copyright on the site.

Canadian Club 1858 is the flagship blend. Its first distillery opened in Walkerville, Ontario, in 1858, and the copyright names a company in New York.

Lot No. 40 Dark Oak is a 100% rye finished in a second, heavily charred oak barrel. It is sold from the Hiram Walker shop in Windsor, Ontario. Not a large...

Forty Creek Copper Bold, once sold as Copper Pot, is distilled at the Grimsby, Ontario distillery. Campari Group has owned the brand since a 2014 sale.

Lot No. 40 is 100% rye distilled at Hiram Walker in Windsor, Ontario, from locally grown grain. Corby sells it, and Pernod Ricard of Paris is the parent.

Forty Creek Barrel Select is distilled at the Grimsby, Ontario distillery. Campari Group has owned the company since 2014, and grain country is not stated...

Jameson Black Barrel is Irish whiskey from Midleton, County Cork, matured in double-charred barrels. Pernod Ricard of Paris has owned the brand since 1988...

Jameson Original is Irish whiskey from the Midleton plant. Pernod Ricard, based in Paris, has owned the brand since 1988. None of this bottle is made in C...