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Lansdowne Brewery (Nanaimo)

Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

Closed · 1921Ownership unknownMicrobrewery
Founded
1885
Closed
1921
Archive ID
TB-5CNVM7RH
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From the record

Summary

SFU dates Lansdowne Brewery 1885-1917 and carries its line through Prohibition to 1921.

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

Tally’s Take

Thirty-two years of brewing, then four more years of paperwork. SFU dates the Lansdowne Brewery 1885 to 1917 — the year British Columbia's prohibition came in — and carries its corporate line through to 1921. That gap is what prohibition actually looks like in a brewery record: the beer stops in 1917, the company goes on existing, and the line finally closes in 1921 as prohibition itself ends.

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The Museum

Timeline

  1. 1885
    Opens

    Nanaimo.

  2. 1917
    Brewing stops

    British Columbia prohibition.

  3. 1921
    Line ends

    The corporate line is carried through prohibition to 1921.

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Show your working

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

    CommercialMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19
    Claim last checked 2026-08-19
  2. historyProbable

    Continuity dates as recorded in BC Pass 57: 1885, 1917, 1921.

    Tally's British Columbia master, Pass 57 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026

    CommercialMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19
    Claim 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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Straight answers

Common questions about Lansdowne Brewery (Nanaimo)

Is Lansdowne Brewery (Nanaimo) still open?
No. Lansdowne Brewery (Nanaimo) has closed (1921). SFU dates Lansdowne Brewery 1885-1917 and carries its line through Prohibition to 1921.
When was Lansdowne Brewery (Nanaimo) founded?
Lansdowne Brewery (Nanaimo) was founded in 1885 in Nanaimo, Canada.
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