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Thank you, St. Albert!
Cheese curd giveaway part of fifth anniversary celebration
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The first 1,000 ticket holders admitted to the The Great Canadian Cheese Festival on Saturday received a sample package of fresh cheese curds made by St. Albert Cheese Co-op.
Two years after a devastating fire that destroyed most of its production facilities, St. Albert has rebuilt. Its bigger, more modern plant near Ottawa is in full swing producing the cheddar St. Albert is famous for. This spring, its Extra Old Cheddar 5 Years won the aged-cheddar category in the Canadian Cheese Grand Prix.
Back in 1894, when Louis Génier and his nine partners started what they called the St-Albert Co-operative Cheese Manufacturing Association, there were many small co-ops of master cheesemakers and dairy farmers. Now, St. Albert Cheese is the only coop to have survived in Eastern Ontario. It has 40 member farms—all within 30 kilometers of the dairy—with 2,580 Holstein cows producing on average 31 litres of milk per day. Up to 80,000 litres are processed into cheese daily.
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