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Enterprise Brewery Ltd.

Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

Closed · 1957Ownership unknownMicrobrewery
Founded
1897
Closed
1957
Archive ID
TB-39KXBW0A
Last checked
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Who owns this brewery?

Charles Holten, Thomas Downs

Named in dated ownership records. No parent company is held, and each owner's sources are shown below.

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Who owns this brewery?
Charles Holten and Thomas Downs (since 1897)Verified
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From the record

Summary

SFU timeline dates Enterprise Brewery Ltd. 1897-1957, a remarkable six-decade Revelstoke brewing lineage surviving Prohibition.

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

Tally’s Take

Sixty years in a mountain town, straight through Prohibition. SFU dates Enterprise Brewery Ltd. From 1897 to 1957 — by a wide margin the longest continuous brewing operation in the British Columbia interior recorded here, outlasting every Kootenay rival and most coastal ones too. And almost nothing else about it survives in this archive, which is its own small injustice: six decades of brewing, reduced to a single line of dates.

Ownership & corporate history

  1. Founded by Charles Holten; Thomas Downs1897
    What the sources say

    Museum documents Holten and Downs establishing Enterprise Brewery on Charles Avenue.

  2. Founded by Charles Holten1897
    What the sources say

    Resolves held claim HOC-0202 ("FOUNDERS / PARTNERS"). Came to Revelstoke in 1885, struck it rich discovering the Silver Cup Mine above Trout Lake, and used the proceeds to establish the Enterprise Brewery on Charles Avenue with partner Thomas Downs. His First Street hill home still stands.

  3. Owned by Charles Holten1897
    What the sources say

    Resolves held claim HOC-0202 ("FOUNDERS / PARTNERS"). Founding co-owner.

  4. Founded by Thomas Downs1897
    What the sources say

    Resolves held claim HOC-0204 ("FOUNDERS / PARTNERS"). Co-founded the Enterprise Brewery with Charles Holten.

  5. Owned by Thomas Downs1897
    What the sources say

    Resolves held claim HOC-0204 ("FOUNDERS / PARTNERS"). Founding co-owner.

Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.

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The Museum

Timeline

  1. 1897
    Opens

    Revelstoke.

  2. 1957
    Closed

    Sixty years, having survived British Columbia prohibition.

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The People

Behind the beer

Charles Holten
Founder / partner

Museum identifies Holten and Thomas Downs as founders on Charles Avenue.

Thomas Downs
Founder / partner

Museum identifies Downs as Holten's partner in establishing Enterprise Brewery.

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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: 1897, 1957.

    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 Enterprise Brewery Ltd.

Is Enterprise Brewery Ltd. still open?
No. Enterprise Brewery Ltd. has closed (1957). SFU timeline dates Enterprise Brewery Ltd. 1897-1957, a remarkable six-decade Revelstoke brewing lineage surviving Prohibition.
When was Enterprise Brewery Ltd. founded?
Enterprise Brewery Ltd. was founded in 1897 in Revelstoke, Canada.
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