OLD O-Pee-Chee chewing gum trading card stickers vintage London

O-Pee-Chee Company from London Ontario candy maker Antique vintage pape ephemera Animals rhino elephant and ? Transfer Chewing Gum stickers With original owner pencil name on back 6.00 Could mail out if you pay postage and e-transfer Otherwise Elmsdale Road m4j 3m3 Donlands O'Connor East York Don mills south exit off the DVP The O-Pee-Chee Gum Company got its start in 1911 when brothers John McKinnon (J.K.) McDermid and Duncan Hugh (D.H.) McDermid started to manufacture chewing gum. According to O-Pee-Chee literature, both brothers had been in the gum business and knew the business very well. The brothers had worked for C.R. Somerville, a gum manufacturing plant in London, Ontario. After the Somerville firm was sold to American Chicle Company in 1908 and the plant moved to Toronto, the McDermid brothers took over the box division and eventually purchased it in 1910 (Somerville Paper Box Limited). Shortly thereafter, they started O-Pee-Chee and produced their first box of Gipsy gum. The name O-Pee-Chee is an Ojibwe word meaning "the Robin" as is found in The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It also happened to be the name of McDermid's summer cottage in Grand Bend, Ontario.