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The Purple Onion Coffee House was a music venue at 35 Avenue Road in the Yorkville neighbourhood of Toronto, Canada. It operated from 1960 to 1965. It operated from 1960 to 1965. It was a popular venue for folk musicians.
The Riverboat Coffee House was a Canadian coffeehouse located at 134 Yorkville Avenue in the Yorkville neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It was a key venue for folk rock music and singer songwriter music made famous for featuring high-profile acts, and is considered to be "the best-known coffee house in Canada."
Cactus Club Cafe was founded in 1988 by two former Earls waiters, Richard Jaffray and Scott Morison. [1] [2] The partners started with a restaurant named "Café Cucamongas", which they sold in 1988 to fund the establishment of the Cactus Club. [1] [2] In 1996, the company expanded into Alberta during a financially challenging time period.
The Ontario Club was a private club in Toronto, Ontario that existed from 1909 to 2010. The club was founded as a gentlemen's club, but in 1978 became mixed-sex.The Ontario was organised as a home for members of the Liberal Party of Canada, and as such, was the counterpart to the Albany Club, which was for members of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Second Cup was founded in 1975 by Tom Culligan and Frank O'Dea in Toronto, Ontario. Culligan eventually purchased O'Dea's shares and expanded Second Cup into a 150-store chain. He sold it in 1988 to the founder of mmmuffins, Michael Bregman. [4] As chairman and CEO, Khalil Al Gawad took Second Cup public in 1993.
The first President's Choice (PC) products began appearing on Loblaw store shelves in 1984, but the concept was created the year before as the company marketed a new ground coffee. Dave Nichol , president of Loblaw Supermarkets, was looking for products to add to the company's lineup of No Name generic items and had even begun offering gourmet ...
Balzac's Coffee is a Canadian coffee company with sixteen retail locations across Southwestern Ontario and the GTA, including Toronto Niagara, Kitchener, Stratford, Guelph, and Kingston. [1] The first Balzac’s café was opened in Stratford, Ontario, in 1996, by entrepreneur Diana Olsen. [ 2 ]
The Toronto Club is a private members' club in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded on March 20, 1837, it is the oldest private club in Canada, and third oldest in North America. The clubhouse, located at 107 Wellington Street West (at York Street), was designed by Frank Darling and S. George Curry in 1888 [1] and opened in 1889.