Five Roses Flour
{{Short description|Canadian brand of flour}}
Five Roses Flour is a Canadian brand of flour originally established and owned by the Lake of the Woods Milling Company in 1888. In 1954, the Five Roses brand with the Lake of the Woods Milling Company were taken over by Ogilvie Flour Mills.{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/companyinformationcanada/ccc-ogilvie.html |title=Industry '67 Centennial Perspective |publisher=The Canadian Manufacturers' Association |orig-date=May 1967 |via=University of Western Ontario Libraries |accessdate=2011-02-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310052108/http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/companyinformationcanada/ccc-ogilvie.html |archivedate=10 Mar 2012 }} ADM bought the company in 1994, and the Five Roses brand was sold to The J.M. Smucker Company in 2006.{{cite web | url=https://www.farinefiveroses.ca/a-brief-history-of-the-sign | title=A brief history | date=11 April 2009 }}
Five Roses sign
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The Farine Five Roses sign is a feature of the Montreal skyline, first erected above the Ogilvie flour mill in 1948.{{cite web | url=https://www.mcgilltribune.com/student-life/watching-the-sign-watching-us-saving-farine-five-roses-100918/ | title=Saving the Farine Five Roses sign | date=10 October 2018 }} The sign faced uncertainty when the Five Roses brand was sold in 2006, as ADM still owned the mill and had little interest in promoting a brand it no longer owned. However, Smucker has spent nearly a million dollars to maintain the sign and keep it lit.{{cite web | url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/actualites-culturelles/394982/le-neon-farine-five-roses-allume-pour-de-bon | title=Le néon Farine Five Roses allumé pour de bon | date=12 December 2013 }} The sign was designated by the Montreal borough of Ville-Marie as a protected architectural feature in 2020.{{cite web | url=https://www.mtlblog.com/montreal/montreals-farine-five-roses-sign-is-getting-special-protection-by-the-city | title=Montreal's Farine Five Roses Sign is Getting Special Protection by the City | date=12 November 2020 }} The sign has been incorporated into the branding of Montreal Roses FC of the Northern Super League.
Five Roses Cookbook
The Five Roses Cook Book was first published in 1913 by Lake of the Woods Milling Company. It is the longest-running recipe collection from a Canadian flour company.[https://www.amazon.ca/Five-Roses-Guide-Good-Cooking/dp/1552854582 Five Roses: A Guide to Good Cooking]. Elizabeth Driver (ed.) The cookbook features Five Roses flour. In 2003, a version of the 1967 edition was produced with an introduction outlining the cookbook's history written by Elizabeth Driver, a food historian who has written extensively on cookbooks. The original edition had recipes submitted by women in a contest run by the Lake of the Woods Milling Company and cost approximately 40 cents.{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-historian-on-cookbooks/article22501322/|title=Food historian on cookbooks|publisher=|accessdate=24 April 2018|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=7 April 2008 }}