Welcome to Frank Correnti Cigars Toronto

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Hidden in the midst of Toronto, lay one of the city’s oldest, most authentic businesses, one which has been lost to the passing of time. Like a museum, Frank Correnti Cigars is the keeper to a cigar history long forgotten in today’s world. From its speak easy second floor entrance in the heart of downtown, to the 100 year old tobacco mold press which set amidst to a dozen worn rolling desks, right down to the accounting ledger from 1915. The incase glass displays holds cigar related antiques, relics, now aged, which has never left these walls.

For the past five generations, the Miller family has been making high grade, handmade cigars. It all started with Kristian A. Moller, in days of candle light and horse ridden carriages. Kristian was the first in the family to professionally manufacture cigars in Copenhagen Denmark, circa 1882. From there he bore a son named Kai, who would learn the trade and follow in his father’s footsteps. Kai and his wife Ulla, opened up a cigar factory called Senga Tobak, where they worked until the post war immigration. Along with 70,000 Danes, they immigrated to new world with new opportunities.

Kai started off his career in Toronto picking up a job with the Rea Brothers, which were local Toronto cigar manufactures (who have long since defunct) until Kai and Ulla, along with their young son Johnny, would go on to purchase Frank Correnti Cigars, which was a factory that started under V. Fernandez/Lopez in 1903 (according to the Tax Archives, National Library of Canada).

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