Grant's Spring Brewery

One of Hamilton's oldest breweries, on the spring at Bay and Mulberry from 1842 to 1932. UNKNOWN: the civic number; the name-change years between 1842 and 1892; what Taylor paid; what stands on the corner now — the Hamilton Public Library's local history collection and Margaret Houghton's 'Vanished Hamilton' are the next reads. Confidence C. Created INTERNAL 2026-09-24; not promoted.

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

1. 1842
   Peter Grant builds over the spring

   "The natural spring that runs under this site inspired Peter Grant and his partners to build a factory here in 1842" at the corner of Bay and Mulberry Streets — a stone building "fronting 33 metres along Bay Street and extending 68 metres back along Mulberry Street, with two underground storeys of vaults". Grant, born in England in 1813, is named with a partner, Mr. Snowden, in one account.

2. 1872
   Grant dies; Lottridge and lager

   Peter Grant died in 1872 and is buried in Hamilton Cemetery. His son-in-law James Lottridge "helped introduce the light, refreshing Germanic brew, the lager". The firm traded as P. Grant & Sons Spring Brewery, Grant's Spring Brewery and, by 1892, the Grant-Lottridge Brewing Co. (Limited).

3. 1930
   Into Taylor's corporation

   Taken into E. P. Taylor's Brewing Corporation of Ontario (from October 1930 the Brewing Corporation of Canada; Canadian Breweries Limited from 1937) in 1930.

4. 1932
   Closed

   Closed 1932 per the Canadian Breweries account; no independent corroboration of the year was found.