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Yukon Club was A&P's (The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. Ltd.) in house brand. They expanded into Canada in 1927 and by 1930 had 200 stores, most of them in Ontario and Quebec. I know they had one A&P in Winnipeg Manitoba but not sure if the other three western provinces had any locations.
My understanding is they went bankrupt in 2015,...it was a pretty interesting company with a long and storied history.

Yukon Club- The Ottawa Journal- Wednesday 18 May 1966- ad from A and P
One flavor that was available but not shown in this ad was grape
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These two beauties just came in this week for me.
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And here are the cans I have already, so the two above are nice additions
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I've found a number of different Yukon Club cans the last couple of years

last fall I found 2 low calorie ginger ale cans in a small dump in the woods here . had planned to try and clean them up a bit but haven't done that yet . still a fair bit of colour on them

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there was a couple of those A & P stores in my area , there used to be a small one downtown ( now closed ) and another at the mall ( now a metro ) , also another in nearby town that is now a ( food basics ) so likely a lot of Yukon club cans around Ontario

I found one of those flat top Kola's a couple weeks ago but its rusted a bit

also have some 70's era metal Yukon club cans , found a dump a couple years ago that had several cola and tonic water cans so tried save a couple of the better ones , also have a ginger ale . not sure if I've found any other flavours but if I did they were too damaged to keep

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I forgot I had some of the crimped oz/ml cans. I like the ginger ale and tonic you have, and yes the colour is strong on those low cal ginger ales.
Crazy but I have not added any cans from this generation since 2014. A couple of these have the D pull ring in place and were bottom opened. I also like the fact these have no bar code.
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