Central Smith A Hidden Gem
Have you ever driven by that little white place on the Lindsay highway 1 kilometer north of Chemong Rd with the RED roof? That’s Central Smith! 
It has been there since 1896, that’s 127 years and counting. Central Smith is situated in the middle of what was known as “Smith” township (now Selwyn) and that’s where the name came from. Central Smith started as a Farmer’s co-op and local farmers would bring their dairy products to be processed and then taken to market. In the 1950’s a private individual, Mike Andrews, purchased the company and began to produce ice cream, butter and chocolate for the local customers. In 1978, the Scates family purchased the facility from Mr. Andrews and began the exclusive production of Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt, Dietetic Ice Cream, Sherbet and Sorbet. Now in our third generation of family business, in 2016, we opened our modern manufacturing space and more recently; 2021, commissioned our newest addition of freezer space. The additional freezer capacity has helped us to maintain and grow our business. We ship Ice Cream products to our customers across Canada on a weekly basis.
Of course, we have maintained the tried-and-true methods to make ice cream using a batch pasteurization process rather than a high short process. We believe that cooking the mix gives the ice cream a special flavour that isn’t available in all ice creams today.
People are always surprised to learn that Vanilla makes up about 85% of all of our sales. Why Vanilla? It goes with everything! We service a huge number of restaurants and what goes better with a brownie or a slice of pie but a scoop of Vanilla Ice Cream! We have our own factory location at 739 Lindsay Road. Our scooping parlour allows us the opportunity to play with flavours and to understand what people are interested in. We have created some wonderful flavours including; Lavendar Lemonade, Blueberry Bliss, Monster Cookie and Algonquin Canoe. We truly do Dream In Ice Cream; the creation of new flavours allows us to do this every year.
Our mission is to give the customer an exceptional experience by ensuring quality, innovation and service in all of our products. We hope you’ll be able to experience some of our ice cream this summer!
739 Lindsay Road, Selwyn 705 742 5867
