Brasserie de Joseph Chapman
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Tally's Take
Why this matters
Where the Dawes name starts. City of Montréal heritage records have Thomas Andrew Dawes working at Joseph Chapman's Montréal brewery from about 1817 and taking over the enterprise when Chapman died in 1836. Dawes went on to be one of the fourteen breweries consolidated into National Breweries in 1909, and one of the four fused into Dow Brewery Limited in 1952. Chapman's own founding year is unknown and stays unknown. Note what this means: Quebec's two greatest brewing names, Dawes and Dow, both begin as somebody else's employee.
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Timeline
- 1817Dawes joins Chapman
Thomas Andrew Dawes works at the brewery from about this year.
- 1836Chapman dies; Dawes takes over
The founding year of Chapman's brewery is not established.
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's Quebec master, Pass 83, which cited https://montreal.ca/repertoire-patrimoine-bati/batiments-patrimoniaux/9999-19-0002-01 for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's Quebec master, Pass 83 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026
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Lineage dates as recorded in Quebec Pass 83: 1817, 1836.
Tally's Quebec master, Pass 83 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026
CommercialMedium reliabilityAccessed 2026-08-19Reviewed 2026-08-19
Only the claims above are sourced. Everything else on this page is the archive's own research and has not yet been tied to a document — which is worth knowing rather than hiding.
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