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Columbia Brewery (Rossland)

Rossland, British Columbia, Canada

Closed · 1900Ownership unknownMicrobrewery
Founded
1895
Closed
1900
Archive ID
TB-NZA7TZ86
Last checked
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From the record

Summary

SFU dates Columbia Brewery in Rossland 1895-1900.

A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.

Tally’s Take

Five years, ending in a merger rather than a failure: SFU dates Columbia in Rossland from 1895 to 1900, and the Rossland Museum records Lion Brewing merging with it in that year. A brewery that disappears into a larger one still needs its own record — without it, the larger one's growth looks like it came from nowhere, and the town's brewery count silently drops by one with nothing to explain it.

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The Museum

Timeline

  1. 1895
    Opens

    Rossland.

  2. 1895
    Dreyer and Hoffmeier in Centre Star Gulch

    "In October 1895, the Columbia Brewery was opened in Rossland by Frank Dreyer and William Hoffmeier", in Centre Star Gulch; merged into Lion Brewing in 1900 (Rossland Museum).

  3. 1900
    Merged into Lion Brewing

    Per the Rossland Museum.

07

Follow the money

How it changed hands

1 recorded move
  1. 1895Founded
  2. 1900Merged into Lion Brewing

    Per the Rossland Museum.

No current parent in the archive's records — the moves above are history, not present ownership.

08

Show your working

Sources

  1. recordProbable

    Brewery record taken from Tally's British Columbia master, Pass 57, which cited https://www.sfu.ca/archives/archives-program/research/bc-beer-history-archive/bc-beer-history-archive-resources/timeline-pre-prohibition.html for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.

    Tally's British Columbia master, Pass 57 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026

    CommercialMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19
    Claim last checked 2026-08-19
  2. historyProbable

    Continuity dates as recorded in BC Pass 57: 1895, 1900.

    Tally's British Columbia master, Pass 57 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026

    CommercialMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19
    Claim last checked 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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Straight answers

Common questions about Columbia Brewery (Rossland)

Is Columbia Brewery (Rossland) still open?
No. Columbia Brewery (Rossland) has closed (1900). SFU dates Columbia Brewery in Rossland 1895-1900.
When was Columbia Brewery (Rossland) founded?
Columbia Brewery (Rossland) was founded in 1895 in Rossland, Canada.
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