![]() ![]() ![]() His first employment in Detroit was as a grocery clerk at a store owned by Augustus Gardner, east of Woodward Avenue. Detroit was a vast change from Boston at the time, as Detroit had a smaller population, where Walker was able to find employment. He left for Detroit, Michigan, in 1838, at the age of 22 years. He received a "common" school education in Boston, and began working as a dry goods clerk. Douglas, Massachusetts was a small town, with a population of 1,800, and very few businesses, which include a planing mill, a machine shop, cotton factory and forge. His ancestors can be traced back to Thomas Walker of Boston, who emigrated to America from England. He was the sixth generation of English immigrants his father was a reputable schoolmaster. Hiram Walker was born on July 4, 1816, on a family farm in Douglas, Massachusetts. The Canadian Club brand is owned by Beam Suntory, a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings of Japan. The company has gone through several owners and is now part of Pernod Ricard. Canadian Club whisky is still produced at the distillery site Walker founded. ![]() The Hiram Walker & Sons Distillery remained in the Walker family until 1926 when they sold it to Harry C. He established and maintained the company town that grew around his distillery, exercising planning and control over every facet of the town, from public works to religious services to police and fire control. From this point forward, Hiram Walker's Canadian Club whisky was Canada's top export whisky. It became very popular, angering American distillers, who forced the US government to pass a law requiring that all foreign whiskeys state their country of origin on the label. Walker began selling his whisky as Hiram Walker's Club Whisky, in containers that were "clearly marked" and he used a process to make his whisky that was vastly different from all other distillers. He purchased land across the Detroit River, just east of what is Windsor, Ontario, and established a distillery in 1858 in what would become Walkerville, Ontario. Walker was born in East Douglas, Massachusetts, and moved to Detroit in 1838. Hiram Walker (J– January 12, 1899) was an American entrepreneur and founder of the Hiram Walker and Sons Ltd. Elizabeth Walker, Jennie Walker, Willis Ephraim Walker, Edward Chandler Walker, Franklin Hiram Walker, Alfred Walker, James Harrington Walker ![]()
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