This post has some early Canadian pear history Canadian Pears Enie, Menie, Miney, Moe, Phileson. The harrow delight , harrow sweet etc. are well known Canadian pears from the modern times but I enjoy now growing some of these older Canadian pears from the earlier efforts! This post has some history about the Ayer and Douglas pears developed Kansas Anyone growing the Ayer pear? Its not the same pear as Ayers. This post discusses more about Douglas Douglas Pear