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So here's us, on the raggedy edge.
And did you get my message / On the People's Radio? I wrote it in Alberta /Across the prairie spine. — Rheostatics, Northern Wish |
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You know, I’m watching CBC news right now and there’s a huge puff piece about Anthony Von Mandl, the proprietor of Mission Hill wines.
Everytime I read a local piece about this guy, I’m appaled by the lack of reference to the real founder of Canada’s fine wine trade: Donald Ziraldo. Ziraldo and his partner Karl Kaiser were producing quality wine in Ontario in 1975, six years before Von Mandl started.
I don’t mean to diminish the man’s achievements: he’s become the leader of the BC Industry, without a doubt. The provincialism that ignores that which went before bugs me a bit though.
I worked for Ziraldo, and he was a passionate man who tried not only to build his own company but also to build an entire industry: nationwide, not only in Ontario. He was an early explorer in British Columbia, although his priority was always Ontario.
Give credit where credit is due.
Posted by skooter at 6:35 PM This entry is filed under Vancouver.