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The brick oven, which is the original oven from when a bakery Family owned and run, Culbert's Bakery, also offers baked -on -
first opened in 1877, produces freshly baked goods everyday for the -premises old recipe cookies, loaves of bread, pies, cakes for
Culbert's Bakery. special occasions, tarts and squares.
Goderich's 140 -year-old bakery
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Darin has seen customers
come in, who like himself,
are also third generations
who have continued the tra-
dition of grabbing a tasty
treat. at Culbert's from their
grandparents.
The bakery holds tradi-
tion of several generations
working and owning ft, and
the town of Goderich also
holds that same tradition
for regular and loyal
customers.
"We have been around for
so long, everybody knows us.
We try to make a quality
product, and we make as
much as we can from
scratch," said Darin.
To celebrate 140 years as a
bakery, Darin explained that
they would not make a big
deal of it, but instead offer
the odd giveaway or draw
throughout the year.
Customers can expect
Canada themed cupcakes
and cakes to celebrate the
150th anniversary of Confed-
eration of Canada to be sold
at Culbert's this July.
Culbert's Bakery was fea-
tured in magazine Bakers
Journal in their January/Feb-
ruary 2017 issue.
According to Bakers Jour-
nal, Culbert's Bakery pro-
duces around 700 to 800
dozen creampuffs a week,
during the summer
months.
An absolutely remarkable
feat that a business that began
as a bakery in 1877 has suc-
cessfully continued as a bak-
ery 140 years later, albeit a dif-
ferent family owning it
It has survived being
passed from three different
families, an ever-changing
economy and world, and the
OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE LATE Di.CURRY.
ARTHUR CURRY, AS A YOUTH, IS STANDING IN
FRONT OF THE HORSE-DRAWN DELIVERY
WAGON. ART'S FATHER IS STANDING ON THE
FRONT STEPS OF THE BAKERY.
When Culbert's Bakery was under ownership by the Curry family
in the early 1900s, deliveries were made by a horse-drawn cart.
tornado in 2011.
Culbert's is a successful
local business that is almost
as old as Canada and has
continued to provide qual-
ity -baked goods to a com-
munity for 140 years.
"The success of the busi-
ness is consistency and
delivering a quality product
to loyal customers," said
Darin.
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