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carol Aug 13th, 2002 06:52 PM

Saskatchewan Chopstick Factory?
 
I know it sounds crazy but a few years back my husband and I were driving the TransCanada highway from Toronto to Vancouver and were speeding very fast through the Prairies and I caught a very quick glimpse of a building with a sign that it was a chopstick factory!! It has always bugged me over the years whether I could have misread it - but then I figured we had a cucumber greenhouse in Newfoundland so perhaps this was another government idea? Anybody out there know about this? Honestly this isnt a troll - I swear I saw it, and I was sober

rand Aug 13th, 2002 07:07 PM

Chopsticks are rather ambitious for the trees on the prairies. Are you sure it wasn't matchsticks?

Brian Kilgore Aug 14th, 2002 11:12 AM

I too have heard that there is (or was) a chopstick factory is Saskatchewan.<BR><BR>Saskatchewan has a lot of trees once you get reasonably far north, so raw materials is not a problem. <BR><BR>BAK

Brian Kilgore Aug 14th, 2002 11:16 AM

It's the Western General Trading Company, in Regina.<BR><BR>BAK

carol Aug 14th, 2002 02:21 PM

thanks Brian - thats been bugging me for years


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