The William Cane & Sons Company Limited made "Cane's" pencils in Canada from about 1916 until 1931. Howard Cane sold the factory to Dixon in 1931 and the factory continued making pencils until about 1990 when the factory was demolished. I've never seen a photo of a Cane's pencil but I recently came across several advertisements showing an images in a 1922 Bookseller & Stationer and Office Equipment Journal.

The Dixon Chancellor is a relatively rare pencil to find. I recently found one in fair condition. The Chancellor was made by the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company of New Jersey before established a factory in Canada. I saw an advertisement from 1920 listing the Chancellor as well as other Dixon pencils for sale in Canada. The Dixon Company purchased the William Cane & Sons Pencil factory in Newmarket, Ontario in 1931 and established the Dixon Pencil Company of Canada. It is quite possible that the made in Canada Chancellor is just a re-branded Cane's pencil and likely made on the same equipment in the same factory. The Chancellor was made through at least the 1940s using Canadian graphite from the Black Donald Graphite Mine in Ontario. I'm not sure if Dixon ceased production of this pencil in 1954 when this source of graphite closed or if they found an alternate source of Canadian graphite and continued production.

Dixon had a nation wide advertising campaign in 1935 highlighting their new Chancellor pencil. You can see a few ads from newspapers across Canada below.

What great colour... perhaps my favourite. Carmine is a purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives.