Name: E.D. Smith

Products: Jams, pie fillings, specialty sauces

Manufactured in: Winona, Ontario (jams, jellies, and marmalades)

How to buy: Grocery stores across Canada

Website: edsmith.com

Canadian owned: No – owned by the European company Investindustrial

E.D. Smith has a long history. It was founded in 1878 when a young farmer dreamt of establishing a prosperous farm for future generations. He experimented with grapes, grains, onions, hens, cows, and sheep. In 1878, he also decided to experiment with a small patch of strawberries. By 1882, his hard work was paying off and the juicy strawberries he was growing in the rich soil of Ontario’s Niagara Peninsula were the beginning of a Canadian food empire.

E.D. Smith remained a Canadian company for over 100 years until it was acquired by TreeHouse Foods, an American company based in Illinois in 2007. E.D. Smith previously had two production facilities in Canada but after the closure of the Seaforth plant in 2013, only Winona remains. In 2022, TreeHouse Foods sold E.D. Smith to the European company Investindustrial. The former E.D. Smith factory is now Winland Foods.

Update: After some confusion about which products are made in Canada, E.D. Smith representatives reached out to us to clarify. While E.D. Smith’s pie fillings are made in the US, all jams, jellies, and marmalades (including both the E.D. Smith brand and the Habitant brand sold in Canada) are prepared in Canada in Winona, Ontario. Their facility employs 240 Canadians. These products have ‘Prepared in Canada’ on the packaging, so it is easier to find which options are made here.