Archive record · Brewery
Prince George Breweries Ltd.
Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
- Founded
- 1978
- Closed
- Year unknown
- Archive ID
- TB-VSDPCYPS
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
Who owns this brewery?
Named in dated ownership records. No parent company is held, and each owner's sources are shown below.
From the record
Summary
Historical operator in the continuous Prince George industrial brewery-site lineage. Legal entity: Prince George Breweries Ltd. Production evidence: Historical industrial production — Statistics Canada 1979 and PWB first-party history. Taken over BY OLD Fort brewing 1981. Owner as recorded: Bob Naismith; partner Nelson — first-party historical account. Status as recorded: Closed / same-site succession.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Ownership & corporate history
- Controlled by Old Fort Brewing Co. Ltd.1981
What the sources say
PWB first-party history and SFU chronology support operator succession.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
The Museum
Timeline
- 1978The court-approved sale to Bob Naismith's company
"It took until February, 1978 to iron things out. That's when the BC Supreme Court approved the sale of the brewery to Prince George Breweries Ltd. By June the new company – headed by PG businessman Bob Naismith" was running the Nechako plant; "In 1981, Prince George Breweries morphed into Old Fort Brewing" under Ron Hodgson's Edmonton group. One stage of the plant lineage on pacific-western-brewing-prince-george-brewery (TB-382YMM44).
The People
Behind the beer
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Straight answers
Common questions about Prince George Breweries Ltd.
- Is Prince George Breweries Ltd. still open?
- No. Prince George Breweries Ltd. has closed. The archive has not established the year it stopped. Historical operator in the continuous Prince George industrial brewery-site lineage. Legal entity: Prince George Breweries Ltd. Production evidence: Historical industrial production — Statistics Canada 1979 and PWB first-party history. Taken over BY OLD Fort brewing 1981. Owner as recorded: Bob Naismith; partner Nelson — first-party historical account. Status as recorded: Closed / same-site succession.
- When was Prince George Breweries Ltd. founded?
- Prince George Breweries Ltd. was founded in 1978 in Prince George, Canada.
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