Tin Collection

Date1899-1929

Dimensions(A) Overall: 22.9 x 17.8 x 11 cm
(B) Overall: 22.9 x 17.8 x 11 cm
(C) Overall: 22.9 x 17.8 x 11 cm
(D) Overall: 22.9 x 17.8 x 11 cm
(E) Overall: 22.9 x 17.8 x 11 cm
(F) Overall: 22.9 x 17.8 x 11 cm

Credit LineGift of Mr. H. L. Gilkes, London, Ontario, 1968

Object number1968.009.005

Label TextThese tins held Gorman & Eckert spices sold from John Garvey’s wholesale grocery business. Founded in 1883 by William Gorman and D. J. Dyson, the Forest City Spice Mills first products included coffee, baking powder, extracts and spices, with olives added to the line in 1890. That same year, D. J. Dyson left the business and R. C. Eckert joined it. Renamed the Gorman, Eckert & Company, it continued to package and sell coffee, spices, and flavouring extracts. By 1900, the company had added catsup, salad dressings, and mustard. The Garvey grocery business began in 1845 as a retail firm. In 1898, John Garvey switched to the wholesale grocery business. On August 5, 1905, the “London Free Press” described the Garvey House “as stocking "the finest teas, coffees, and the best of spices, the finest of sugars and syrups, flour, domestic and foreign dried fruits, fruit juices and flavouring extracts, baking powder, woodenware, (and) groceries in great variety and profusion.” John Garvey’s son carried on the business until his retirement in 1929.

NameCanister, Food Storage