HAPPY WORLD VEGAN DAY✨💕 (shared from @KellysBake Instagram) “8 years ago, the mother daughter team of Kelly’s Bake Shoppe, Kelly Childs and Erinn Weatherbie, took a brave stand and pioneered the first vegan and gluten-free café and bakery in Canada. This was a very big job to take on in Downtown Burlington. In those days, most thought they were crazy to bring a vegan business into this city core. For them however, this company was more than an initiative to make profit; it was about creating a brand to bring awareness to the necessity of kindness to all sentient beings, and to try to change our perspective and relationship with food…and it worked!  ✨ It has been an incredibly rewarding journey and to be recognized as one of the founding vegan establishments in Canada, and to also be ranked #3 on a bucket list of world-wide bakeries to visit before…