TWENTY GRAND FINE-CUT TOBACCO Antique Tin, by The Rock City Tobacco Company, is an older, round-shaped tobacciana tin, with a removable lid. No rust, clean inside, and a partial Excise Stamp still on. A beautiful patina of Robin's Egg Blue and cream-coloured graphics, vice the newer tins that display bright white graphics. Container Made in Quebec, Canada.
HISTORY OF ROCK CITY TOBACCO: Rock City tobacco company of Quebec was founded in 1899 by Olivier-Napoléon Drouin and his brothers. The factory experienced prosperity from the 1910s, to the point of becoming one of the largest manufacturers of tobacco products in Canada, as well as having assets in Ontario and elsewhere in Quebec. The factory employed around 500 people, mostly women, and had about twenty sales representatives throughout Canada. Eventually, Rock City struggled and British Carreras Tobacco Company purchased it in 1936. Carreras in turn was bought out by Rothmans International in 1963.
