Margaret Morris Biography
Margaret is the President of Glengarry Cheesemaking & Dairy Supply Inc.
The company has been in operation for 24 years as a supplier of ingredients, packaging materials, small scale processing equipment, imported cheese moulds and technical support services to hobbyist and commercial specialty, farmstead and artisan style cheese makers in North America. The company also engages in export to Europe raw materials that are transformed into final ingredients used in the production of Cheesemaking.
Along with a staff of nine, the company services clientele to develop, manufacture and enhance fine cheese. Glengarry Cheesemaking is now 16 years into commercial production of artisan cheese that is shipped across Canada, consisting of hard cheese, semi firm and blue cheese.
The cheese that is produced at Glengarry Fine Cheese has been awarded several national and international prizes:Best International Cheese 2022 Global Cheese Awards, Best of Show ACS competition with the Celtic Reserve Blue cheese, as well as the Supreme Global Grand Champion Cheese at the 2013 Global Cheese Championship in Somerset, UK. The first time since 1854 that a cheese outside the continent won this honor. The Lankaaster aged a two year old traditional gouda style loaf was the recipient. Several regional and national awards also for Glengarry Fine Cheese over the years in Canada have been achieved.
Margaret has also been involved in judging specialty cheese at the Warwick Cheese Competition in Quebec in year 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011 and at the American Cheese Society conference in Portland, Oregon July 2006 Austin, Texas 2009. Margaret is an associate lecturer at the University of Guelph in the Master Cheesemaking License Program and Short Course Cheese Certificate Program.
Margaret has a B.Sc. in Agriculture and Food Science from McGill University. Margaret and her staff have taken technical training in cheesemaking in the UK, Holland and France obtaining short course certificates in these various countries as well as the short course at the Guelph Food Technology Center, and various certificates from the Ontario Dairy Council, and she is a graduate of Glengarry High School in her home county of South Glengarry.
Margaret was raised on a dairy farm in eastern Ontario, her cheese factory is situated on a piece of land which was farmed by her family for the past 25 years known as the Fraser lands, previously cleared and farmed by the Fraser clan.
The Glengarry Fine Cheese factory borders several dairy farms and is located approximately 1 mile north of Highway 401, at Lancaster, Ontario. A retail store, and interpretation center are also included in the new location, making specialty cow’s milk and goat’s milk cheese.
