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 Demark, 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).

Today, the original remnants of the factory are still intact and mark the territory to Canada’s oldest hand made cigar factory and Toronto’s oldest cigar shop.