Canadian bacon (1897)

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   Something for the Canadian(s) here.
   Merriam-Webster has 1934 for "Canadian bacon."  OED doesn't have "Canadian bacon," so I have to bring it home.


   October 1897, NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW (American Periodical Series online; also on Making of America-Cornell, the only hit there), pg. 418 start:
   Being excluded from the American market by heavy duties upon pork and swine, the farmers and packers of Canada set about ascertaining what grade of goods would best suit the English taste, with a determination to shape their business in such a way as to meet that taste.  The result is that Canadian bacon and hams so far lead the American product in the English market that, during all of the present season, hogs have been worth at railway stations throughout the Province of Ontario on an average twenty-five per cent. more than in the stock market at Buffalo or Chicago, and the business of furnishing meats to England is growing with phenomenal rapidity.

   13 February 1910, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. SM4:
(First "Canadian bacon" hit in an article on food markets--ed.)

   11 June 1911, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 63 ad:
_MACY'S_
MANY GROCERY SPECIALS--
   For Shrewd Housewives
(...)
_Bacon_, a special sale of Wilshire imported Canadian bacon; a fresh shipment just received, freshly cured, delicately flavored; we receive monthly shipments; weights 3 to 25 lbs; at this sale, lb. ... 24 cents


(No "Canadian bacon" in the Early Canadiana Online database--ed.)