Time to hop into your time machine. The year is 1860, and you and your immigrant family are traveling by stage-coach between the farming community of Dunbarton and the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto.  You’re just starting to think about refreshments when you arrive at the “Half Way House” on Kingston Road in Scarborough. You [...]

From the early taverns by which entire towns would conduct business, to the German-influenced lagers of the early prairies, beer has been Canada’s beverage of choice since the seventeenth century. In fact, throughout 1700 and 1800 beer was often drunk in lieu of water at every meal, and enjoyed by man, woman and child. As [...]