Labatt Brewery — New Westminster
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Tally's Take
Why this matters
The end of a 145-year run. The BC Ale Trail states that New Westminster's brewing history began in 1860 and continued until the local Labatt brewery closed in 2005 — which means the city brewed continuously from the Picht Brewery of the colonial era to a national brand in the twenty-first century. The exact predecessor lineage between Westminster Brewery Ltd. and Labatt is open, and the archive leaves it open rather than assuming the obvious.
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Timeline
- 2005Labatt closes the New Westminster brewery
Ending brewing that the BC Ale Trail traces in the city back to 1860. Predecessor lineage unresolved.
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's British Columbia master, Pass 57, which cited https://bcaletrail.ca/notf-tp/ 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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Continuity dates as recorded in BC Pass 57: 2005.
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.
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