Archive record · Brewery
Brasserie de Joliette
Joliette, Quebec, Canada
- Founded
- 1879
- Closed
- Year unknown
- Archive ID
- TB-0BYZYN12
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
Who owns this brewery?
Named in dated ownership records. No parent company is held, and each owner's sources are shown below.
From the record
Summary
Status: Historical / brewing active at least through 1904; exact production end unresolved. [Canada Pass 180] CHECKED 2026-09-24: a Joliette industrial chronicle for 1863-1884 names mills, a foundry, brickworks and factories but no brewery; nothing else reachable. The Société d'histoire de Joliette-De Lanaudière and BAnQ's Gazette de Joliette are the asks. Founders, site and end: UNKNOWN.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Ownership & corporate history
- Owned by Édouard-Ulric Dupuis1879 – 1885
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
City history identifies Dupuis as founder/owner; he died Dec 1885.
- Owned by Jacques-Éphrem Dupuis1885 – 1892
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Master brewer/proprietor by 1888 and still direct proprietor in Lovell 1890–91; widow sold brewery assets in May 1892.
- Owned by Roy & MireaultMay 1892 – May 1893
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Roy and Mireault bought the brewery property/equipment/licence in May 1892 and formed the named brewing partnership in July; partnership dissolved May 1893.
- Owned by Joseph RoyMay 1893
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Roy became sole owner when Roy & Mireault dissolved on 19 May 1893. A 1900 Joliette commercial guide identifies Joseph Mireault as proprietor, so Roy's exact end date and Mireault's route back into ownership remain unresolved.
- Owned by Joseph MireaultDate unknown
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
1900 commercial guide identifies Brasserie de Joliette proprietor Jos. Mireault; 1904 notarial lease calls Mireault a Joliette brewer. The transaction returning control from Roy to Mireault has not been located.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
The People
Behind the beer
Notarially based reconstruction identifies Jacques Ephrem Dupuis as master brewer and brewery proprietor in 1888; Lovell 1890–91 independently lists J.E. Dupuis as Brasserie de Joliette proprietor. His widow sold the brewery assets/licence in May 1892.
Notarially based reconstruction names Joseph Roy and Joseph Mireault as brewer co-purchasers in May 1892; their Roy & Mireault brewing partnership dissolved 19 May 1893 when Mireault sold to Roy. An earlier municipal summary expanded him as Joseph-Agnus Roy; that name expansion is retained as a source conflict, not treated as resolved identity.
Hired by master brewer Jacques-Éphrem Dupuis in 1888 to learn beer-making methods; co-purchased the brewery with Joseph Roy in May 1892; co-founded Roy & Mireault in July 1892; sold to Roy in May 1893; a 1900 commercial guide later names Mireault proprietor again and a 1904 lease calls him a Joliette brewer.
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