| 词条 | Pure Spring Company |
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The Pure Spring Company Ltd. was an Ottawa, Canada-based bottler of soft drinks. Pure Spring products included Pure Spring Ginger Ale, Minted Grape, Swiss Cream Soda, Honee Orange, Grand Slam, root beer, and Gini, a mix.[1] Its products were distributed from Alberta to the Maritimes, making Pure Spring the largest independent soft drink firm in Canada.[1] Pure Spring Ginger Ale had the highest per capita sales of any ginger ale in North America, according to Ottawa historian Shirley Woods Jr.[2] At its peak, Pure Spring had annual sales in the $50-million range. It had about 50 trucks, at least one of them driven by Paddy Mitchell, a legendary bank robber. According to Peter Mirsky, at one point in the 1960s and 1970s, Pure Spring was selling a larger volume of soft drinks in Eastern Ontario than Coca-Cola.[1] It was founded by David Mirsky, who was a son of Jacob Mirsky, Ottawa's first rabbi. Jacob, a Talmudic scholar and cantor, arrived from New York City in 1894.[3] As a teenager, David (1890–1962) was a newsie, selling papers, magazines and snack items on the Canadian Pacific Railway's Gatineau line. David began to collect bottles and return them to Bradings Brewery, where he struck a business deal. By 1920, he was selling bottled water, drawing it from a spring at the base of Nanny Goat Hill, then added soft drinks. Pure Spring was incorporated in 1925. David's son, Mervin (1904-June 2010), took over the company after serving in the Canadian Forces in Europe during World War II and after a brief legal career with his twin brother, Jack. Pure Spring opened a plant on Aberdeen Street, off Preston Street, in the heart of Ottawa's Italian community. The Mirsky family sold Pure Spring to Crush in the mid-1960s, though Mervin continued to run it until about 1987. Pure Spring is credited with introducing canned soft drinks and the twist-cap to Canada.[3] References1. ^1 2 {{cite news |last= Egan|first= Kelly|date= July 2, 2010|title= Pure Spring was in every fridge|url= https://ottawacitizen.com/Pure+Spring+every+fridge/3225605/story.html|work= Ottawa Citizen}} {{Canada-company-stub}}2. ^{{cite book |last= Woods Jr.|first= Shirley E.|date= 1980|title= Ottawa: The Capital of Canada|url= http://www.bytown.net/jewish.htm|location= Toronto|publisher= Doubleday Canada|pages= 181–185|isbn= 0-385-14722-8}} 3. ^1 {{cite book |editor1-last= Bilsky|editor1-first= Anna|last1= Knowles|first1= Valerie|last2= Kahane Goldberg|first2= Ruth|last3= May|first3= Gary|last4= Humber|first4= Lawrence|date= 2009|title= A Common Thread: A history of Jews in Ottawa|url= |location= Renfrew|publisher= General Store Publishing House|page= |isbn= 1-89750846-8}} 6 : Drink companies of Canada|Soft drinks|Companies based in Ottawa|Defunct companies of Ontario|Food and drink companies established in 1925|1925 establishments in Ontario |
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