Toronto, Ontario -- Happy National Cheese Lover's Day! On this cheese lover's day we are going to share with you an interesting rivalry which helped to propel Canadian made cheese across the globe. Canada presently produces over 1,050 varieties of cheese but did you that more than half of Canada's cheese manufacturers are located in Québec? However, if we look at the history of cheese manufacturing in Canada it was not always this way, it took some time for Quebec to take the title from another cheese manufacturing province, Ontario.
Canada has been a Cheese producer since the early 1700s. In the mid-nineteenth century, farmers in the province of Ontario began to convert to dairy farming in large numbers due to a wheat midge outbreak; these dairy farmers produced and exported Canadian cheddar cheese to countries such as Britain, where Ontario made cheddar cheese was highly favoured over Quebec's cheddar. In 1867, Ontario had 200 cheese manufactures, however Quebec
