Silverwood Dairy

Silverwood Dairy was a London, Ontario, Canada, dairy company that operated in the early 20th century and was later acquired as a brand name by Ault Foods.

Silverwood's mansion in his home town of London was home to the University of Western Ontario's Faculty of Music and School of Business Administration. The Tudor Revival A. E. Silverwood Building is now called Dante Lenardon Hall. Silverwood Skating Rink in London was also named for him. The Silverwood family never lived in this house. Mr Silverwood was a great supporter of Western's School of Music, and his donations went towards the purchase of this building for the use of the Music programme. UWO subsequently used it as part of the Law faculty, and later it was bought by King's University College and renamed Lenardon Hall after a revered founding scholar and teacher.

Silverwood Dairy continued to grow after the departure of A. E. Silverwood. The company expanded in and beyond Ontario and acquired a number of smaller dairies. By 1984, Silverwood was taken over by the John Labatts Limited owned Ault Foods and the name was carried on as a milk brand. While the dairy disappeared, the Silverwood brand continued. It was sold in the 1990s to Agropur and slowly disappeared. The non dairy part of Silverwood was renamed Silcorp Limited (1978) and became a Toronto based operator of the Mac's Convenience chain. Silcorp acquired Mac's rival Becker's in 1996. The Silverwood name and brand disappeared for good in 1999 when the company was acquired by Couche Tard.

Albert's brother, William Alexander Silverwood, moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1907. He became a successful cattle rancher and operated a bottling plant north of the city. The present day neighbourhood of Silverwood Heights, which occupies his former farmland, bears his name.