Hawkins Cheezies® first immigrated to Canada in the middle of the 20th Century. On June 27, 1949, W.T. Hawkins Ltd. was incorporated in Canada by Willard Trice Hawkins and the company began making Cheezies®, and other snack products, in its new Canadian factory in Tweed, a small town in rural southern Ontario.
W.T. Hawkins Inc. has been run, since its inception, by the Hawkins family: founder Willard Trice Hawkins; his son, Willard Western (Web); and, most recently, his grandson, Kent. Kent’s son, Travis, will be the fourth generation of Hawkins to run the company. The company has recently purchased, from the City of Belleville, land in a new industrial park, with the intention of building a more modern, more efficient Cheezies® factory, with greater capacity, to help meet the continually growing demand for Canada’s favourite crispy, crunchy, cheddar cheese-coated, extruded corn meal snack.
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