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Labatt's Saskatchewan Brewery Ltd. — Saskatoon

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Also known as The Saskatoon Brewing Company Limited

Closed · 1993Ownership unknown
Founded
1960
Closed
1993
Archive ID
TB-2W3E2ANK
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From the record

Summary

Status: CLOSED. Labatt acquired the Saskatoon Brewing Company operation around 1960. Federal records document Labatt's Saskatchewan Brewery Limited by 1963. Saskatoon City Council records state the brewery closed in 1993 and was slated for demolition, with a municipal photograph inventory prepared. [Canada Pass 26]

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

Ownership & corporate history

  1. Acquired by John Labatt Limited / Labatt1960 – 1993

    Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.

    What the sources say

    Pass 8 integrity correction: Pass 7 row was column-shifted. City heritage states Labatt acquired the Saskatoon Brewing Company operation around 1960; this row now preserves the intended owner/entity fields.

Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.

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The Museum

Timeline

  1. 1993
    Closed 1993 — a 1915 plant

    The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan runs the plant as "the Saskatchewan Brewing Co. (then Labatt's Saskatchewan Brewery) (1915– 93)"; accounts differ on when Labatt took it (about 1960 per the archive's source; as late as 1973 in others) — both kept. The building was demolished later in 1993 (reported); the site today: UNKNOWN.

Surviving objects

9 objects catalogued here so far, held by UNKNOWN — City/Labatt archival transfer request and City of Saskatoon Archives and University of Saskatchewan Archives & Special Collections and Labatt Brewing Company Collection (AFC 101), Archives and Special Collections, Western Libraries, Western University — as described in the collection's finding aid and Cited in Bellamy, Brewed in the North (2019) as held in the Labatt Brewing Company Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Western Libraries — the archive has not inspected the box. That is what the archive has recorded, not the extent of what the holder keeps — follow each link for the institution's own finding aid or catalogue. The archive links to each record rather than reproducing its photograph; the images belong to the holding institution and are licensed object by object.

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Straight answers

Common questions about Labatt's Saskatchewan Brewery Ltd. — Saskatoon

Is Labatt's Saskatchewan Brewery Ltd. — Saskatoon still open?
No. Labatt's Saskatchewan Brewery Ltd. — Saskatoon has closed (1993).
When was Labatt's Saskatchewan Brewery Ltd. — Saskatoon founded?
Labatt's Saskatchewan Brewery Ltd. — Saskatoon was founded in 1960 in Saskatoon, Canada.

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