Kaslo Brewery

SFU dates Kaslo Brewery 1897-1902. CHECKED 2026-09-24: nothing citable found — founder, site, end all UNKNOWN. The Kootenaian (Kaslo) on UBC Open Collections is the next read; UBC's full-text files open in a browser session.

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

1. 1894
   J. W. Barker starts it up — three years before the SFU row

   Nakusp Ledge, 12 April 1894: "J. W. Barker has secured possession of the Kaslo brewery and will commence operations at once"; 24 May 1894: "The Kaslo brewery has commenced operations." (PRIMARY) So a Kaslo brewery existed by the spring of 1894; the record's 1897 start is kept beside it.

2. 1897
   A new roof; the Consumers' Brewing and Ice Manufacturing Co.

   British Columbia News, 26 November 1897: a carpenter "working on the roof of the Kaslo brewery" fell twenty feet; 7 January 1898: "KASLO BREWERY ... A Plea for Building Up a New Home Industry" from "The Consumers' Brewing and Ice Manufacturing Co." — "What the Pabst Brewery is to Milwaukee, the Kaslo Brewery Co. may be to Kaslo" — signed by R. E. A. Mueller, manager of the Kaslo Brewing Company. The 1899 Williams' directory lists "Kaslo— Kaslo Brewing Co."

3. 1902
   Goodenough, Band and the proprietors

   The Paystreak, 15 February 1902: Kaslo's "Mayor Goodenough was until recently interested with Mr. Band in the Kaslo brewery"; Lardeau Eagle, 5 September 1902: "one of the proprietors of the Kaslo brewery, was in Ferguson yesterday. Their ad. will be found on another page."

4. 1903
   Mueller's estate offers the brewery — 'the only brewery in the neighborhood'

   Nelson Daily News, 5 September 1903: tenders to 15 September 1903 for "the property known as the 'Kaslo Brewery,' situate on part of block ten in addition No. 1 to the City of Kaslo. The brewery is equipped with a modern plant of a capacity of sixty barrels per week, and storage capacity of 250 barrels, and is the only brewery in the neighborhood" — so it stood, and was probably still working, a year after the SFU row's 1902 end. Who bought it and when it closed: UNKNOWN.