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Sam Gryfe started out peddling baked goods in Hamilton, Ontario around 1915. A store eventually opened at 319 Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market and operated during the 1930s. The bakery is now located on Bathurst Street. The bakery was also known as Crown Bakery. There was also a location in cottage country at Jackson's Point on Lake Simcoe.
S. Gryfe and Sons Bakery
- Address
- 319 Augusta Avenue
- Source
- Landmarks
Sam Gryfe started out peddling baked goods in Hamilton, Ontario around 1915. A store eventually opened at 319 Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market and operated during the 1930s. The bakery is now located on Bathurst Street. The bakery was also known as Crown Bakery. There was also a location in cottage country at Jackson's Point on Lake Simcoe.
- Address
- 319 Augusta Avenue
- Time Period
- 1930
- Scope Note
- Sam Gryfe started out peddling baked goods in Hamilton, Ontario around 1915. A store eventually opened at 319 Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market and operated during the 1930s. The bakery is now located on Bathurst Street. The bakery was also known as Crown Bakery. There was also a location in cottage country at Jackson's Point on Lake Simcoe.
- Category
- Food-related business
- Source
- Landmarks
![Arthur Gryfe standing at oven of S. Gryfe and Sons Bakery, 319 Augusta Ave., Toronto, [1931 or 1932]. Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre, item 4519.|Arthur Gryfe was the son of Sam Gryfe. Arthur and his wife Ruth went on to open Gryfe's Bagel Bakery on Bathurst Street in 1957.](/media/Digital Assets/4519.jpg?maxheight=1000&maxwidth=1000&watermark=wmk)
![Sam Gryfe with horse-drawn bakery wagon (Hamilton, ON), [ca. 1915]. Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre, item 4517.|This is Sam Gryfe with his horse-drawn bakery wagon, in Hamilton ON.](/media/Digital Assets/4517b.jpg?maxheight=1000&maxwidth=1000&watermark=wmk)
