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cb - (Ceramique de Beauce) See entry for Beauce/Beauceware

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CCC (Canadian Ceramic Craft) - Craigleith, then Collingwood, Ontario.
Red clay body.
CCC was started c. 1960 by Mr. Dennis Tupy who immigrated to Canada from Czechoslovokia in 1951. Dennis was the first mold maker at Blue Mountain Pottery. CCC was reformed into Rainbow Ceramics (see below)

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CCC (Canadian Ceramic Craft) - Clarksburg, Ontario.
White clay body.

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Canadian Art China - Collingwood, Ontario

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Canada Art Pottery - Hamilton, Ontario

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Canadian Porcelain Company - Hamilton, Ontario
Founded 1912 by Walter T. Goddard and John Alden, both from the U.S.
Company was formed to manufacture porcelain insulators and fixtures for use with electricity. George Emery was hired in 1913: An association that lasted until c. 1940.

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Canadian Potteries, Ltd. - St. Jean, Quebec
Established in 1830, joined the Crane Canada, Inc. Group in 1920. A new plant was built in 1931. Still in operation. Over the years it has continued to produce lavatories, water closets, and other sanitary ware for a variety of uses. A new pottery was constructed at Coquitlam, British Columbia in 1958 to supplement the production of the plant at St. Jean, Quebec. Until its closure in 1993, the factory supplied the western market with the same high quality vitreous china sanitary ware products as produced at the St. Jean plant.

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Canadiana - Ingleside, Ontario
Started c. late 1960's by Alfred Dube who had previously been plant manager at Blue Mountain Pottery in Collingwood.

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Canuck Pottery, Ltd. - Saint John, N.B. then c. 1964 Labelle, Quebec. Operation was a continuation of Foley Pottery (see that entry). Sons, Percy and Alponse, of Fenwick Foley were owners. Factory moved to Labelle, Quebec following a disastrous fire at the Saint John location (Bayside Drive also, but in a newly contructed building 2 miles from original Foley home) in 1963. Both white and red clay items produced. Operations ceased in 1970's.

----- Beachcomber Ware. Known to have existed c. 1958. (Saint John)

----- Evangeline Ware. (Saint John and Labelle locations)

From a 1943 trade directory, the entry reads:

"CANUCK POTTERY, 198 Union Street, Saint John, N.B., Can.
Established 1938.  Plant at Saint John.  Plant telephone, Saint John 3-2053.  2 periodic kilns (glost ware).  Fuel - electric.  Colored jugs and souvenir novelties.  Rated capacity of plant: 250,000 pieces annually.  Buy electric power.  President, Fenwick D. Foley; General Manager, Percy T. Foley; Superintendent, Alfred T. Foley."

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Ceramique Tracadie Ceramics - Tracadie, N.B.

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Charlottetown Pottery, Ltd. - Charlottetown, P.E.I.

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Collomo

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Creemore China & Glass - Creemore, Ontario

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Danesi Art - Toronto, Ontario
Known to have been in production in 1959, no other details.

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Devonware - Location Unknown

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Dundas Clay Products, Ltd. - Dundas, Ontario
Operated c. 1934-39, with Mr. George Emery as President, producing decorative ware. Additional principals were Albert Ross and James Orme. Operation purchased by McMaster Pottery in 1939 and George Emery continued making pottery in Hamilton.

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Dutchtown - Shelburne, Ontario

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