Pro-Canada sales (from the U.S., too) boom at landmark Arva Flour Mill [Video]

Canada’s oldest water-powered flour mill, a pre-Confederation landmark just north of London, is riding a business boom from the buy-Canadian push prompted by the threatened U.S. trade war. 

Arva Flour Mill, established in1819, has seen daily orders via its website triple since Saturday, the day U.S. President Donald Trump signed tariff executive orders.  

“People are seeking us out,” mill co-owner Mark Rinker said Wednesday. “There are websites that have sprung up helping people identify Canadian producers. We’ve been mentioned in a few of those. We’re seeing a groundswell of buy-Canadian sentiment.” 

The mill already has increased staff hours to help fill the recent crush of orders, Rinker said.  

On Monday, Trump paused the proposed tariffs – 25 per cent on most Canadian goods, 10 per cent on energy – for 30 days and Canada agreed to suspend its retaliatory tariffs on $30 billion of U.S. imports.  

The pause was reached after Canada committed to strengthening border security …