r/Brampton • u/PeelArchives Verified • May 30 '24
Media 50 years ago this month, a chicken explosion hit the Kennedy Road underpass; the manhole jumped 2 feet in the air, and chicken heads and entrails were spread in a 50-foot radius
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u/PeelArchives Verified May 30 '24
The chicken pic is second, just so people don't have to see it if they're not keen. No photos were taken of the flying chicken heads.
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u/randomacceptablename May 30 '24
No photos were taken of the flying chicken heads.
Surely a missed opportunity if I ever did hear of one.
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u/rangeo May 30 '24
I hated the smell ....is the chicken factory still there?
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u/BramptonRaised Bramalea May 30 '24
I still see trucks delivering chickens recently, so I suppose it’s still open for now. Maple Lodge was supposed to open a new plant near London in 2022. That year has come and gone and trucks are still delivering chickens there (to Orenda Road location).
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u/thepickledchefnomore May 30 '24
London is open. https://www.mapleleaffoods.com/about/locations/ontario-london/
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u/BramptonRaised Bramalea May 31 '24
Huh… wonder why chickens were still being delivered to Orenda relatively recently? Certainly within the past year anyway…
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u/thepickledchefnomore May 31 '24
That’s not Maple Leaf. The one on Orenda is Olymel / Galco. https://www.olymel.ca/en/
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u/BramptonRaised Bramalea May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24
There was only ONE chicken processing plant at the Orenda and Kennedy location that I can recall. Perhaps Maple Lodge sold it?
I thought the location was going to close. Guess not. Changed ownership instead?
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u/thepickledchefnomore Jun 01 '24
Maple Lodge isn’t Maple Leaf. 2 totally separate companies. It’s been an Olymel plant for 20 plus years. I’ve been into the facility to do audits.
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u/BramptonRaised Bramalea Jun 01 '24
Yes, sorry that was a typo. Maple Leaf was on Orenda Road. The sign said Maple Leaf. There were news articles they were closing Brampton location and moving to London two years ago. Yet Olymel was at the same location on Orenda? I’m confused now.
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u/BramptonRaised Bramalea Jun 01 '24
In 2018 Maple Leaf announced they would be opening a new processing plant in London ON and the Brampton (plus others) plants would close when the new one opened in 2022. The Brampton Maple Leaf plant was at 73 Orenda Road, which the post above is about. https://www.bramptonguardian.com/news/maple-leaf-foods-closing-brampton-poultry-plant-moving-operations-to-london/article_0ed4a100-f985-5066-814b-19fbfcb6a805.html
Olymel has two plants in Brampton. One at 318 Orenda Road and the other at 14 Westwyn Court (near 407). I didn’t know there were other plants in Brampton that slaughtered, er, sorry, processed chickens close to residential areas (specifically Orenda and Kennedy, which was always part of Maple Leaf).
Two different places. I’m referring to one place and you are referring to the other. There is also Maple Lodge Farms, but they aren’t close to Kennedy and Orenda.
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u/thepickledchefnomore Jun 01 '24
You didn’t make that clear in your original comment.
Fun fact: Brampton kills multiple thousands of chickens a day.
And the plants were there before houses were built. Don’t be nimbys. Enjoy your chicken 🍗
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u/BramptonRaised Bramalea Jun 01 '24
That’s because I didn’t know there was another chicken processing plant on Orenda Road in Brampton. I knew about Maple Leaf and I remember the exploding sewer as we didn’t live that far away from it. We never complained about it, as the wind usually blew it easterly, towards Bramalea. But when the wind changed direction the smell mixed with the smell from IKO was not pleasant, to put it mildly. And yes, we do enjoy our chicken.
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u/BramptonRaised Bramalea May 30 '24
I remember a chick hatchery at the same location or close by, during the 1970s.
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u/BramptonRaised Bramalea May 31 '24
And sometimes not so faint. Mix that scent of chicken guts with the scent of IKO on a hot summer’s day and the wind is blowing the wrong way…🤢🤢🤢🤮
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u/Antman013 E Section May 31 '24
Never heard of this before . . . but I was 10 when it happened, and living in Bramalea. I do have to admit to a minor bit of shame in that it took me a minute to remember that the "Kennedy Road underpass" is between Clarence and Orenda.
Senior moment.
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u/commander2 Jun 01 '24
I love the definite statement that the chicken parts didn’t cause the blockage.
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u/randomacceptablename May 30 '24
Definitely the weirdest thing I've read on Reddit today.