E. L. Drewry Brewery
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada · Est. 1877
Tally's Take
Why this matters
Edward Drewry bought an idle brewery at Redwood and Main in 1877 and started what became the longest-running brewing site in Manitoba. His name stayed on it through the Drewrys and Western Canada Breweries corporate phases — Statistics Canada still listed Western Canada Breweries, Drewry's Manitoba Division, at Redwood and Main in 1954 — and the plant kept brewing long after his name came off it, as Carling from 1957. The archive treats the whole sequence as one production operation under changing owners rather than a row per corporate entity, which is the difference between a brewery's life and its paperwork.
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Timeline
- 1877Drewry takes the Redwood site
Buys the idle Herchmer & Batkin brewery and restarts it.
- 1954Western Canada Breweries
Statistics Canada lists Drewry's Manitoba Division at Redwood & Main.
- 1957Becomes Carling
The site passes to Carling; the operation continues uninterrupted.
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's Manitoba master, Pass 26, which cited https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/statcan/32-205/CS32-20... for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's Manitoba master, Pass 26 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026
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Lineage dates as recorded in Manitoba Pass 26: 1877, 1954, 1957.
Tally's Manitoba master, Pass 26 (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.
Straight answers
Common questions about E. L. Drewry Brewery
- Is E. L. Drewry Brewery still open?
- No. E. L. Drewry Brewery has closed. Manitoba Pass 26 master. Research brewery ID: MB-B0041. Entity type: Historical production brewery. Pass 17 lineage refinement: Drewry's Redwood brewery continued through the Drewrys/Western Canada Breweries corporate phase. Statistics Canada lists Western Canada Breweries Limited (Drewry's Manitoba Division) at Redwood & Main in 1954. This is treated as ownership/corporate lineage of the same Redwood production operation rather than an extra physical brewery row. The site became Carling Brewery in 1957.
- When was E. L. Drewry Brewery founded?
- E. L. Drewry Brewery was founded in 1877 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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