Archive record · Brewery
Labatt Brewery — New Westminster
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Closed
- 2005
- Archive ID
- TB-CJ36KJ7F
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
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Summary
BC Ale Trail states New Westminster brewing history began in 1860 and continued until the local Labatt Brewery closed in 2005. Exact predecessor lineage remains open.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Tally’s Take
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.
- 2005Closed April 2005 — about 150 jobs
"Labatt Breweries is closing its plant in New Westminster, B.C., next April, a move that will put about 150 people out of work" (CBC, 8 September 2004) — the former Lucky Lager / Westminster Brewery, Labatt's since 1958 (reported); the nine-acre site became Wesgroup's Brewery District (reported). The plant's own founding on this record: UNKNOWN — the Westminster Brewery lineage is held separately.
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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
CommercialMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19Claim last checked 2026-08-19 - historyProbable
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 reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19Claim 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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