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Pacific Brewery

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Closed · 1885Ownership unknownMicrobrewery
Founded
1884
Closed
1885
Archive ID
TB-JABSSCBZ
Last checked
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Summary

Short-lived Victoria brewery documented in SFU archival timeline.

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

Tally’s Take

Short-lived, and that is very nearly all that is known. It appears in SFU's archival timeline of Victoria breweries and nowhere else in this archive — no closing year, no brewer, no beers. Kept as a record rather than written up, because the alternative to an incomplete entry is an invented one.

Events

  1. Pacific Brewery opened in Santa Fe under brewer/owner George Shneider.1864-09-16

    Opening

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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

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 Pacific Brewery

Is Pacific Brewery still open?
No. Pacific Brewery has closed (1885). Short-lived Victoria brewery documented in SFU archival timeline.
When was Pacific Brewery founded?
Pacific Brewery was founded in 1884 in Victoria, Canada.
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