The Canada Dry story begins with pharmacist and chemist John J. McLaughlin, who opened a small plant in Toronto, Canada in 1890 to manufacture soda water, which he sold to drugstores in siphons as a mixer for fruit juices and flavored extracts.

After hundreds of painstaking experiments, McLaughlin achieved the perfect formula for his Canada Dry Pale Dry Ginger Ale in 1904. In 1919, McLaughlin began to ship the product to New York City, and two years later the first Canada Dry plant in the United States was opened on 38th Street in Manhattan.

In the early days, corner drug stores were the predominant outlets for the carbonated beverage industry. McLaughlin changed all that by developing mass bottling techniques and serving Canada Dry where people gather in masses, such as ballparks and beaches. In fact, Canada Dry pioneered many of the products and practices now considered standards throughout the beverage industry.

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