Postcard Memories is a weekly series of historic postcard views and photos submitted by Marcel Rousseau.
Some were previously published by the Orillia Museum of Art and History and in the book Postcard Memories Orillia.
In 1914, Frank E. Fisher and F. W. Vollans of Walkerville, Ontario took over the bankrupt Tudhope Co. of Orillia.
They immediately began to sell Tudhope cars under the Fisher name. The cars were either already assembled or else put together from left-over parts. Fisher left the company in April of 1915 and Vollans moved the company back to Orillia.
War contract work kept the Fisher Motor Co. Ltd. busy through to 1918 and they manufactured auto accessories until 1928. One of the products made were ice cream scoops.
Both household and commercial scoops were made in several sizes under the Fisher name. In 1926 Fredrick Vollans was issued a patent for his invention, “The Cold Dog Ice Cream Scoop,” from the United States Patent & Trademark Office.
The Cold Dog Scoop was made in Orillia for several years under the Fisher name. The barrel of the scoop would be plunged into a tub of hard ice cream filling the cylinder. The user would then pull the trigger and release the cylinder of ice cream into a cone. The ice cream was then dipped into a chocolate coating and sold.
In an age where the American hot dog was king, the Cold Dog ice cream cone became a popular treat. However it was not as popular in Canada, as most of the Fisher Cold Dog Scoops were sold in the U.S. and are a scarce collectible in Canada.
