The Traveling Baker

Fry's Red Wheat Bread, a Victoria based, upstart micro-bakery built around a mobile brick oven and the idea of a single baker working to create a community around great bread.

Traveling baker Byron Fry taught himself to bake 3 years ago before apprenticing at the Italian Bakery in Victoria BC. During the summer of 2010 he rode his motorcycle 16 000km around North America, visiting bakeries in Montreal, New York, North Carolina and Portland. In NC he met the baker Richard Miscovich who inspired him to come home to BC, build an oven, and bake bread. The historical name and logo of Fry's Red Wheat Bread was passed down from his great-grandfather whom owned and operated a bakery in Victoria at the turn of the century.

This is his first year farm-based operation in Metchosin. You will find him at the James Bay Community Market Saturdays 9-3 and the Metchosin Farmers Market 11-2 as well as the Oak Bay Night Market, third Wednesday of the month.
Article from the Victoria Daily Times, Friday, Dec. 13 1963, about the uncovering the brick oven at the old Fry’s Bakery location on Craigflower Rd. where my ancestors ran their bakery for 20 years. Here’s the article retyped so it’s easier to read: A memory of the days when bread smelled like bread and cost a nickel bobbed up this week out of a broken building. Wreckers tearing down a confectionary on Craigflower Road found in the ruins a brick oven that was once manned by a family of bakers.Fry’s Bakery has been out of business for years, but the name is still familiar to many Victorians. Charles Fry founded the bakery and built the brick oven about 40 years ago. He ran the bakery with his three sons for 20 years, going out of business just after the Second World War. The oven was partitioned off after the building became a confectionary. It stood idle, it’s iron doors hanging slack, until the wrecker smashed the screen around it.  The oven will soon be gone too, with it’s smokey bricks converted to other purposes.  And the memory of old fashioned bread will be gone from a corner of Craigflower Road forever.

Article from the Victoria Daily Times, Friday, Dec. 13 1963, about the uncovering the brick oven at the old Fry’s Bakery location on Craigflower Rd. where my ancestors ran their bakery for 20 years.

Here’s the article retyped so it’s easier to read:

A memory of the days when bread smelled like bread and cost a nickel bobbed up this week out of a broken building.

Wreckers tearing down a confectionary on Craigflower Road found in the ruins a brick oven that was once manned by a family of bakers.

Fry’s Bakery has been out of business for years, but the name is still familiar to many Victorians. Charles Fry founded the bakery and built the brick oven about 40 years ago.

He ran the bakery with his three sons for 20 years, going out of business just after the Second World War. The oven was partitioned off after the building became a confectionary.

It stood idle, it’s iron doors hanging slack, until the wrecker smashed the screen around it. 

The oven will soon be gone too, with it’s smokey bricks converted to other purposes. 

And the memory of old fashioned bread will be gone from a corner of Craigflower Road forever.

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