Lower Fort Garry Brewery
St. Andrews / Lower Red River, Manitoba, Canada · Est. 1845
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Major fur-trade/post brewery whose production served HBC employees and troops; brewery/malt-house history must remain distinct from later Red River commercial breweries. Legal entity: Hudson's Bay Company brewery at Lower Fort Garry / Stone Fort. Production evidence: HISTORICAL PRODUCTION VERIFIED — expanded brewery and malting house built with Lower Fort distillery project in 1845; 16,000 gallons brewed for British Sixth Regiment era; brewhouse demolished April 1880.. Ownership as recorded: CORPORATE/POST OPERATOR VERIFIED; individual brewer contracts not fully resolved. Owner as recorded: Hudson's Bay Company. Status as recorded: CLOSED / HISTORICAL SITE.
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- Who owns Lower Fort Garry Brewery?
- Lower Fort Garry Brewery is recorded as owned by Hudson's Bay Company, which does not yet have a full company profile in this archive.
- Is Lower Fort Garry Brewery still open?
- No. Lower Fort Garry Brewery has closed. Major fur-trade/post brewery whose production served HBC employees and troops; brewery/malt-house history must remain distinct from later Red River commercial breweries. Legal entity: Hudson's Bay Company brewery at Lower Fort Garry / Stone Fort. Production evidence: HISTORICAL PRODUCTION VERIFIED — expanded brewery and malting house built with Lower Fort distillery project in 1845; 16,000 gallons brewed for British Sixth Regiment era; brewhouse demolished April 1880.. Ownership as recorded: CORPORATE/POST OPERATOR VERIFIED; individual brewer contracts not fully resolved. Owner as recorded: Hudson's Bay Company. Status as recorded: CLOSED / HISTORICAL SITE.
- When was Lower Fort Garry Brewery founded?
- Lower Fort Garry Brewery was founded in 1845 in St. Andrews / Lower Red River, Manitoba, Canada.
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