James Marker (c. 1922 – May 2, 2012) was an American-born Canadian businessman who invented Cheezies, a brand of cheese curl snack food popular in Canada.
[1] Marker, who was originally a farmer, worked within the confectionery industry in Chicago, Illinois, for many years.
[1] Marker and Hawkin originally started their new company in Tweed, Ontario, to take advantage of the areas railroads to ship their Cheezies.
[2] A fire destroyed their original Tweed factory in 1956, and they relocated to their company's current location in Belleville, Ontario.
[1] The W. T. Hawkin's Cheezies factory closed for the remainder of the day upon news of Marker's death.