ABSTRACT
Within the Commonwealth, Canada is the second largest consumer – and importer – of sugar, after Great Britain. Canada’s beet production is, in fact, rather small and for the rest of its consumption requirements it depends on imports of cane sugar from the West Indies. The cultivation of sugar beet was introduced in Canada at the end of the 19th century. It spread in the southern districts of the provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. From 1950 onwards, production from seven sugar factories was between 100,000 and 150,000 tonnes. The largest Canadian sugar firm, Canada and Dominion, was the result of the merger in 1930 of the Canada Sugar Refinery of Montreal and the Dominion Sugar Company which owned the sugar factories of Chatham and Wallaceburg in Ontario. The Dominion Sugar Company was the outcome of the merger of the two sugar factories operating in the south of Ontario, Wallaceburg and Berlin.
