Dominion Cigars Event with Tim Banic 

Saturday August 19^th Dominion Cigars Event with Tim Banic  11 till 4pm.

Pop on down to the shop and get a meet and greet with Tim, take advantage of some terrific deals on Dominion, and obtain some swag and prizes while you are at it!

From Dominion on Canadian Cigar History;

Canada was once home to a booming cigar industry. From the late 1870s to the early 1920s, cigars were locally grown, manufactured, and distributed. By the early 1900s, there were over 40 Canadian cigar manufacturers for a national population of only seven million. Canadian cigars were big business.

It started when First Nation settlements introduced wild tobacco to white settlers. As smoking tobacco gained popularity, Canadians began to plant cigar tobacco imported from Indonesia and the US. Tobacco growing soon became an important industry, with Norfolk County in Southwestern Ontario forming the centre of a tobacco belt that continued to dominate the region throughout the 20^th century. By the 1920s, higher quality and more affordable cigars were being imported from Cuba and the US, Canadian tobacco farmers and cigar manufacturers couldn’t compete. The tobacco industry shifted from cigars to cigarettes, and Cuba has dominated the Canadian cigar industry for almost 40 years.