Avondale Dairy Bar Stewart Rd.

1932 - Avondale Dairy founded by the Stewart Family.

1956 - Avondale Dairy Bar built for retail sales of milk and fresh Ice cream.

1963 - New Avondale Dairy built and opened. Tours for the people in the community take place.

1963 - Final horse drawn milk route for home delivery of milk stops.

1970 - Beatrice foods purchase Avondale Dairy and Avondale Dairy Bar from the Stewart Family.

1986 - Ray and Deb Sheehan purchase Avondale Dairy Bar from Beatrice Foods.

1987 - Avondale Dairy Bar begins making ice cream cakes and pies.

1994 - We begin to sell ice cream cakes & pies and ice cream tubs to restaurants, grocery stores and other ice cream scooping operations.

1998 - Wild Blueberry hard frozen yogurt wins “Best Hard Frozen Yogurt” of the year at the “National Ice Cream Retailers Convention”.

1998 - “Death by Caffeine” wins best new flavor of the year at “Canada’s Ice Cream Festival”, Woodstock Ontario.

1999 - “English Crumb Cake” wins flavor of the year at Canada’s Ice Cream Festival, Woodstock Ontario.

2001 - “Kahlua Espresso Fudge” wins best coffee type at the National Ice Cream Retailers annual convention.

2001-03-04 &2005 - Our Vanilla and Chocolate win awards for quality at the annual National Ice Cream Retailers Convention.

2006 - 50th anniversary of the opening of Avondale Dairy Bars

2007 - Vanilla and Strawberry won awards at the National Ice Cream Retailers Convention

2008 - Our Vanilla and Chocolate win awards for quality at the annual National Ice Cream Retailers Convention.

2009 - first annual fundraiser for the pediatric ward at the General Hospital. We raised over $3000