On my evening constitutional, I discovered a Sweet Caporal sign forming part of a front porch. It's unusual to see a Sweet Cap sign as it's an old-fashioned brand and I have never known anyone who actually smoked them. This, from an Internet sight: sweet Caporal was one of the oldest names in cigarette brands, having
been sold in the Canadian market for at least 125 years until they were
discontinued in 2011. The brand was originally produced in the United
States by the Kinney Bros. Tobacco Company, New York, beginning in 1878,
and became very popular. Kinney Bros., which was merged into the
pre-1911 giant American Tobacco Company, expanded into Montréal; the
Sweet Caporal trade mark was registered in Canada in 1887. |