Local Lore — Pop Culture

The giants of soda - Coca Cola, Pepsi, and the like, have become so ubiquitous and universally recognizable it is easy to forget that soda used to be a very local thing.  Artificially carbonated water began to become available in North America around the beginning of the19th Century.  Starting around 1820, small carbonated bottling operations began to be established across Canada. Local bottlers in every city and town in Canada developed their own recipe books, names, logos and advertising slogans. They were a familiar part of the communities, often multigenerational family operations. Around that same time, carbonated soda began to...