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Feb 21, 2017 · Tim Hortons is a Canadian restaurant chain known for its coffee, doughnuts and connection to Canada’s national identity. Its namesake, Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Tim Horton (1930–74), founded the business with Montreal businessman Jim Charade. The first Tim Hortons doughnut franchise opened in Hamilton, Ontario, in May 1964.
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- BEFORE DOUGHNUTS, TIM HORTON SOLD BURGERS. It was Jim Charade, a man often forgotten in the history of Canada’s favorite fast casual chain, who first convinced four-time Stanley Cup-winning hockey star Tim Horton to get into the restaurant business.
- THE ORIGINAL DOUGHNUT SHOP MENU WAS SUPER SIMPLE. Hamburgers didn’t sell as well as Horton had hoped, so in April 1964, he and Charade opened the first of the Tim Hortons that we know today on the site of an old Esso gas station in Hamilton, Ontario.
- THE REAL TIM HORTON DIED 10 YEARS INTO THE CHAIN’S EXISTENCE. Very early in the morning on February 21, 1974, 44-year-old Horton died in a single-vehicle crash, just hours after playing a losing hockey game.
- THE MISSING APOSTROPHE IS PART OF CANADIAN CULTURE. Wikimedia Commons // CC0. Tim Hortons was originally Tim Horton’s—as it seemingly should be. After all, the name refers to a doughnut and coffee shop owned (at least formerly) by Tim Horton and not a gathering of many Tim Hortons.
Jan 19, 2020 · Horton was born on Jan. 12, 1930 in Cochrane, Ontario and he would first learn to play hockey in Quebec after the family moved there in 1936. The family would move back to Cochrane a few years later and Horton would hone his skills as a hockey player. In his last game in Cochrane, his skill level was evident as he scored eight goals.
Aug 14, 2020 · Jim Charade selected a former Esso station at Ottawa St. and Dunsmure Rd. in Hamilton for the retooled company's first location. It was close to one of the town's major employers and sold coffee ...
The company was founded in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario by Canadian ice hockey player Tim Horton (1930–1974) and Jim Charade (1934–2009), [12] after an initial venture in hamburger restaurants. [13] [14] In 1967, Horton partnered with investor Ron Joyce, who assumed control over operations after Horton died in 1974. Joyce expanded the chain ...
May 17, 2022 · 9 In a Different World, We’re All Eating at Jim Charades As luck would have it, Horton met Jim Charade , who owned a doughnut shop on the same street as Horton’s barber. Charade was sure that putting a celebrity name on his struggling doughnut shop was just what it needed to rise to the top of the cutthroat yeasted dessert business, and it’s hard to say he was wrong.
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Jun 24, 2024 · According to The Canadian Encyclopedia, in 1963, Tim partnered with businessman Jim Charade to open two drive-in burger and chicken spots in Toronto and Port Credit called Tim Horton Drive-In. The two also worked with Tim’s brother to create another burger place in North Bay, Ontario called Tim Horton Charcoal Broiled Hamburgers.
