Home Hardware manager tests his baking mettle

BROCKVILLE, Ont. — An assistant manager at Brockville Home Hardware Building Centre is one of 10 contestants on CBC’s The Great Canadian Baking Show, which premiered this week. Tim Chauvin learned to bake growing up near Windsor, Ont. “My earliest baking memories would go back to Christmas time,” he told the Brockville Recorder & Times. The 38-year-old landed his place in the contest, according to CBC publicists, with “a delectable cake adorned with homemade peanut butter cups.” The show is an adaptation of The Great British Bake Off, which moved to Channel 4 last year after seven seasons on the BBC.