British Canadian Importers was established in the mid-1930's, in Vancouver, BC. Canada was in the decade of the Great Depression (1929-1939), when two businessmen, (Clarence Sprott and Leverett Hatt), one from Canada and the other from Britain discovered their mutual interest in the food industry. Optimistic and entrepreneurial they decided to form an alliance to import hard to find ingredients from the UK for the bakery, dairy, and food manufacturing industries in Western Canada. more... See more text