Canada: Who's the wine industry's daddy?
Canada: Who's the wine industry's daddy?
Nov 27, 2010 6
Historian Alun Hughes started researching the widely-heralded father of Canadian wine as part of a larger book on Niagara's wine industry.He didn't expect to possibly rewrite history.
For years, nearly every book referencing Ontario's wine history has proclaimed Johann Schiller as the so-called father of Canadian wine.
The native of Germany is said to have planted wild grapes on a plot of land in what is now Mississauga, made wine and sold it to neighbours -- effectively establishing the first-ever "commercial" winery in 1811.
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