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Hiram Walker, American businessman, founded Canadian Club whisky (died 1899)

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Hiram Walker

American entrepreneur (1816-1899)

Hiram Walker was an American entrepreneur and founder of the Hiram Walker and Sons Ltd. distillery in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Walker was born in East Douglas, Massachusetts, and moved to Detroit in 1838. He purchased land across the Detroit River, just east of what is Windsor,…
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Canadian Club

Brand of Canadian whisky

Canadian Club is a brand of Canadian whisky produced by Suntory Global Spirits. Popularly known as CC, Canadian Club was created by Hiram Walker and Sons, an evolution of a brand around a product that took place over the second half of the nineteenth century. Hiram Walker merged…
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