page_title: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company
section_title: Sweet Caporal
hierarchical_section_title: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company / Sweet Caporal
caption_attribution_description: English: Imperial Tobacco Company "Sweet Caporal Cigarettes" truck in Vancouver by Stuart Thompson. City of Vancouver Archive collection: 1 photograph&#160;: b&amp;w acetate negative&#160;; 19 x 24 cm Reference code: CVA 99-4726 Photographer's number 2892
context_page_description: The Kinney Tobacco Company was an American cigarette manufacturing firm that created the Sweet Caporal cigarette brand and promoted it with collectible trading cards. Being a leading cigarette manufacturer of the 1870-1880s, it merged in 1890 into the American Tobacco Company.
context_section_description: Sweet Caporal launched as a brand in 1878, persevered through a merger and survived the subsequent dissolution of a cigarette trust after United States v. American Tobacco Co. It turned into a money making brand for the reconstituted American Tobacco Company on a par with Pall Mall and Mecca. In the beginning of the 20th century, it became especially popular in Canada. American Tobacco Company entered the Canadian market in 1895 by acquiring the Montreal-based American Cigarette Company and D. Ritchie & Co. forming the American Tobacco Company of Canada, Ltd. In 1908, when American Tobacco Company of Canada was bought out by the Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada, Sweet Caporal cigarettes commanded a 50-percent share of the Canadian market; the brand continued in Canada until 2011.
caption: Imperial Tobacco Company "Sweet Caporal Cigarettes" truck in Vancouver, 16 March 1935
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