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1893-1982 (Creation)
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48 cm of textual records and photographs
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J. M. (Jack) Bain was born in Thamesford, Oxford County. He attended Dairy School at the Ontario Agricultural College in 1925, after which he worked at various cheese factories, including the Cherry Hill Cheese Factory in Essex County and the Uniondale Cheese Factory in Perth County. From 1928 until 1942, Bain operated his own cheese factory in Britton, Perth County. He also taught at the OAC Dairy School and later became Director of Milk Products of the Dairy Branch, Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food. He served as president and secretary-treasurer of the Dairyman’s Association of Western Ontario and won many awards for cheesemaking, including the British Empire Championship in 1937 and 1938. He acted as judge at many major cheese exhibitions throughout Canada and in 1971 he launched the first cheddar cheese plant in Brazil and introduced the country to brick and Colby cheese.
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The J. M. Bain collection contains a variety of records relating to the cheese and dairy industry in Canada and includes photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, notebooks, reports, histories and records of various cheese factories and creameries, prize cards and ribbons, convention programs, speeches, OAC experiments, publications, and minute books of the Dairymen's Association of Western Ontario. Panoramic photographs of the 1931 Cheesemaker's of Ontario luncheon, the 1938 British Empire cheese exhibition, the 1938 Central Ontario Cheese Makers' Convention, and the 1953 CDISA annual meeting, are also included.