Once Birdseye returned to the United States, he followed up on his Labrador experience and experimented with flash freezing of fish fillets. He soon developed and patented a “double belt freezer ...

Clarence Birdseye, founder of the frozen food company Birds Eye, in Labrador, Newfoundland, about 1912. It was no major setback for someone as curious and enterprising as Birdseye.