Hours: Monday - Friday, 10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon, 1.00 p.m. - 3.30. p.m.

Please call or mail ahead to ensure that the curator is available for the time and date you wish to visit.

• Contact: Richard Feltoe, Curator and Corporate Archivist
• Tel: (416) 933-8341 
• mail: Richard.Feltoe@redpathsugar.com

 The museum is fully wheelchair accessible, with handicapped and tour bus parking located directly outside the museum.

Public transport provides two bus route connections within one block of the main (West) gate of the refinery complex. In addition, a main subway line station (Union Station) is within a ten minute walk, or a four minute ride with one of the bus connections.

The Redpath Sugar Museum was established in 1979 to celebrate the 125th anniversary of what is today the oldest sugar refining company in Canada. In 2004, the museum celebrated 25 years of programming, while the company celebrated 150 years of production.

• The origins of sugar cane and its use in the ancient world.
• The spread of the sugar industry around the world.
• The growth of the New World sugar industry.
• The social influence of sugar in society from the 13th – 19th Century.
• The early technology of sugar refining (sugar cane manufacturing).
•  Early attempts at the development of a Canadian sugar refining industry.
• The recent periods of corporate history.
• The Modern Sugar Industry.

• His family origins in Scotland.
• His career as a major building contractor within Canada.
• His influence and involvement in the development of 19th Century Canadian society, trade, and architecture.
• His family and descendants.

• The origins of sugar cane and its use in the ancient world.
• The spread of the sugar industry around the world.
• The growth of the New World sugar industry.
• The social influence of sugar in society from the 13th – 19th Century.
• The early technology of sugar refining (sugar cane manufacturing).
• The development of the sugar beet industry in the 18th Century.
• Early attempts at the development of a Canadian sugar refining industry.

• The establishment of the Company as a public entity (1880).
• Technological developments in the refining industry during the late 19th and early 20th Century.
• The development of the Company, the introduction of packaged product lines, and women in the workplace (1912).
• World War I, government controls and the “Dance of the Millions”.
• Post war economic problems.
• The merger of the Canada Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. with the Dominion Sugar Co. Ltd. (1930).

•  The origins of the Ontario sugar beet industry (1900 - 1910).
• The history of the Dominion Sugar Co. Ltd. (1910 - 1930).
• Changes in the technology of the sugar beet industry (1900 - 1967).
• Government policies and the decline of the beet industry (1945 - 1967).
• The closure of the Ontario sugar beet industry (1967).

•  World War II and governmental controls.
• Post war modernization and technological changes in the sugar industry.
• The construction of the Toronto refinery (1957 - 1959).
• Development of the corporation (1959 - Date).
• Tate & Lyle.
• Expansion and development of the Toronto refinery.

•  The current production methods of sugar crafting as practiced at the Toronto facility.
• The world-wide distribution of the sugar industry.
• Transportation and distribution systems for sugar (including scale model road and rail vehicles).
• Sugar packaging from around the world.

THE PUBLIC IS NOT PROVIDED WITH DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PRODUCTION AND PACKAGING AREAS. A VIDEO OUTLINING THE PROCESS IS SHOWN AS PART OF THE TOUR.