Canadian Whisky Founders

(NOTE: FOUNDERS ARE LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

Below is a list and links to Whiskey Founders that have made huge contributions to the growth of the Canadian Whiskey Industry. These may have been historical figures that lived long ago before prohibition or may be living leaders that have advanced the cause of the industry as a whole. Canadian Whiskey has been its own whiskey category for years.

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Edgar M. Bronfman

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Sam Bronfman

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Henry Corby

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William Gooderham

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John Gibson

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John K. Hall

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Harry Hatch

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Dr. Don Livermore

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Dave Pickerell

“Johnny Appleseed of Distilleries”

Dave graduated from West Point in 1978 with a Bachelors of Science degree in Chemistry. After graduation, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army. In 1986, while still serving, he attended the University of Louisville’s School of Engineering and obtained a Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering. After graduation, he returned to West Point to teach chemistry.

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Joseph E. Seagram

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Hiram Walker

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John Phillip Wiser

John Philip Wiser was educated in the common schools of his county, later at Hobart Hall Institute in Holland Patent, New York. Early employment included farming (until the age of 20) and clerk in Gouverneur, New York for several years. 

In 1856 he married Emily Godard, daughter of Harlow Godard. They had six children together. 

In 1857 Wiser moved to Prescott, Ontario approximately 129 miles north of Wiser’s birthplace of Oneida County, New York. Prescott had direct railway connections to Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto, and railway links to the Northern Railway in the United States, providing access to the Atlantic Seaboard ports. Prescott also had a port of call for the Canadian Steamers heading east and west long the St. Lawrence River.