Archive record · Brewery
Lower Fort Garry Brewery
St. Andrews / Lower Red River, Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada
- Founded
- 1845
- Closed
- Year unknown
- Archive ID
- TB-N1XMA08R
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
Who owns this brewery?
Not yet mapped as a company, so the chain above it is still open.
From the record
Summary
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 — 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. Corporate/post operator; individual brewer contracts not fully resolved. Owner as recorded: Hudson's Bay Company. Status as recorded: Closed / historical site. PROBABLE DUPLICATE 2026-09-24: one Company brewery at Lower Fort Garry, held four times; the sourced record is hudson-s-bay-company-lower-fort-garry-brewery (TB-WYMQZ31G), 1845/1847 to 1868/1880 by the two Manitoba History articles. Not merged here.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Ownership & corporate history
- Owned by Hudson's Bay Companyuntil 1880
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
HBC operated the Lower Fort brewery and associated malt-house infrastructure. Source: SRC-CA-1802
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
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Common questions about Lower Fort Garry Brewery
- 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. The archive has not established the year it stopped. 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 — 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. Corporate/post operator; individual brewer contracts not fully resolved. Owner as recorded: Hudson's Bay Company. Status as recorded: Closed / historical site. PROBABLE DUPLICATE 2026-09-24: one Company brewery at Lower Fort Garry, held four times; the sourced record is hudson-s-bay-company-lower-fort-garry-brewery (TB-WYMQZ31G), 1845/1847 to 1868/1880 by the two Manitoba History articles. Not merged here.
- 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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