Which companies were approved?

A look at the production facilities of 13 companies awarded portions of the first AGLC buy of cannabis for public sale next October:

— 7 Acres/The Supreme Cannabis

Company, located in Kincardine, Ont., the company operates a 340,000square foot facility;

— ABCann Global has a 14,500square-foot facility in Napanee, Ont. and plans to build an adjacent 150,000 square-foot expansion;

— Aphria Inc., with just nine acres in 2016, announced five expansion projects in its last fiscal year, the largest being 1-million footer for the Leamington, Ont. company;

— Aurora Cannabis. Domestic facilities in Medicine Hat, Leduc, Cremona and Quebec could see the Edmontonbased firm have 2.14-million squarefeet in cultivation next year;

— CannTrust. A new 430,000square-foot greenhouse in the Niagara region of Ontario is phase one of twopart expansions coming online in mid2018;

— Canopy Growth. Centred at a former chocolate plant in Smith Falls, Ont., Canopy growth’s expansion plans for 2018 will triple its space this year to 2.4 million square-feet.

— Emblem Cannabis. The Paris, Ont. company acquired 80 acres of land last year and plans three 100,000square-foot facilities, boosting its growing space tenfold;

— Maricann Group Inc. A threephase expansion in Langton, Ont. will bring one-third of a planned 950,000square-foot project on line in November, and another third is expected in April 2019;

— MedReleaf Corp. In April the Markham, Ont. based company acquired 1 million square foot existing greenhouse that, once retrofitted would quadruple the company’s growing footprint. Also included in the deal was 95 acres of adjacent land in Exeter, Ont.;

— Organigram. The Moncton, N.B. company states it has two buildings on 14 acres totalling 480,000 square-feet, when the $90 million project is complete;

— Starseed Medicinal Inc. Plans to double its 60,000-square-foot facility in Bowmanville, Ont. were announced last year;

— UP Cannabis Inc. A corporate partnership with the band, The Tragically Hip, has led to its 200,000square-foot plant in the “Niagara wine region” to be dubbed the “Fiddler’s Greenhouse.”;

— Weed MD. From an initial 26,000square foot production facility in the tomato country of Aylmer, Ont., an initial harvest was expected in June from lease agreement that could to total involve 610,000 square feet, all near London, Ont.