{"id":3011,"date":"2019-09-04T13:53:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T20:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2019-09-04T13:53:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T20:53:42","slug":"how-kamloops-once-booming-cigar-industry-went-up-in-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3011","title":{"rendered":"How Kamloops&#8217; Once Booming Cigar Industry Went Up in Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/infotel.ca\/tag\/jenna-wheeler\">Jenna Wheeler<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Posted on: September 2, 2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KAMLOOPS &#8211; Kamloops was once home to a company that created, sold, and exported nearly 4,000 Havana cigars per day.<\/p>\n<p>Word of a cigar factory in Kamloops had been brought up in 1894 by a Vancouver man, James Harling. While looking into the possibility of this venture, Harling rented a building on what is now known as Victoria Street West but never got the business rolling, according to an article from the Kamloops News.<\/p>\n<p>In December of that year, a man named George E. Borthwick, who was employed at a cigar factory in Victoria, decided to try his hand at creating a cigar industry in Kamloops. According to notes from the Kamloops Museum, he rented half of the building from Harling and the Inland Cigar Factory came to be.<\/p>\n<p>At the start, three journeymen apprentices, including Borthwick, rolled cigars with tobacco from Havana, Sumatra, and the United States, according to a Kamloops News article.<\/p>\n<p>The factory began to produce various types of cigars such the Pride of Kamloops, which was strictly Havana tobacco,\u00a0 as well as some mixed-tobacco varieties such as Nature\u2019s Beauties, La Flor de Cabinet, and Stags, according to notes from the Kamloops Museum.<\/p>\n<p>In 1897 the company was reorganized and made plans for expansion. Borthwick was now partnering with a Vancouver man known as M.P. Gordon, according to the Kamloops News. The company constructed a new building on the corner of First Avenue and Seymour street, which still stands today. The name of the company was changed to the Inland Cigar Manufacturing Company Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/infotel.ca\/newsitem\/how-kamloops-once-booming-cigar-industry-went-up-in-smoke\/it65384\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By:\u00a0Jenna Wheeler Posted on: September 2, 2019 &nbsp; KAMLOOPS &#8211; Kamloops was once home to a company that created, sold, and exported nearly 4,000 Havana cigars per day. Word of a cigar factory in Kamloops had been brought up in 1894 by a Vancouver man, James Harling. While looking into the possibility of this venture,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3014,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/3014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}