Canadian Club Heritage Centre closing at end of 2017

The Canadian Club Heritage Centre will be closing at the end of the year.

The company is apparently refocusing their investments.

Although it will honour booked events until the end of 2017, it will close to the public at the end of March.

Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island CEO Gordon Orr says he learned of the closure on Wednesday.

Orr says it’s a tremendous blow to the tourism industry, as it has been part of the marketing campaign and used to tell our story.

The Windsor distillery will still continue to produce Canadian Club whisky.

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  This is Hiram Walker's office, inside the Canadian Club Brand Center on Riverside Drive. The desk is set up as if Walker himself could return at any moment and begin to work. On the desk are corporate ledgers, showing that Hiram Walker and his 3 sons, Edward, James and Franklin were all making more than $1,200 a month. That salary is worth $400,000 today. (Michelle Maluske / CTV Windsor)

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  These are some of the counterfeit bottles seized by Hiram Walker & Sons over the years. It was Franklin Walker, Hiram's youngest son's job to find producers who were selling counterfeit CC. (Michelle Maluske / CTV Windsor)

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  This room, inside the Canadian Club Brand Center in Windsor, has now been converted into a Tasting room. A detailed tour of the historic buildings along Riverside Drive offer a behind-the-scenes look at Walker’s life. And at the end, a tasting of some of the best CC blends. (Michelle Maluske / CTV Windsor)