Imperial Brewery / Imperial Brewing Co. (Kamloops)

SFU traces the Imperial Brewery from 1897 to 1898, then Imperial Brewing Co. from 1898 to 1918, with the line carried through Prohibition to 1924 — the same shape found at Nanaimo, Revelstoke and Trail, where the brewing stops and the company survives on paper until prohibition lifts. This is also the second Imperial in this archive's British Columbia records, distinct from the one-year Imperial Brewery at Nelson, and a third exists at Montréal. None of the three has any connection to the others.

1. 1897
   Imperial Brewery

   Kamloops. Distinct from the Imperial Breweries at Nelson and Montréal.

2. 1898
   Imperial Brewing Co.

   The name it kept for twenty years.

3. 1924
   Line ends

   Brewing stopped in 1918; the company survived to 1924.

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

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2. historyProbable

   Continuity dates as recorded in BC Pass 57: 1897, 1898, 1924.

   Tally's British Columbia master, Pass 57 (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.