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Red Lion Brewery (Nanaimo)

Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

Closed · 1891Ownership unknownMicrobrewery
Founded
1886
Closed
1891
Archive ID
TB-G2RV0D5Z
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From the record

Summary

SFU dates Red Lion Brewery in Nanaimo 1886-1891.

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

Tally’s Take

Five years, and the shortest-lived of Nanaimo's nineteenth-century breweries in this archive. SFU's timeline dating it 1886 to 1891 is the whole of the record — no brewer, no beers, no reason recorded for the ending. Kept anyway, because a brewing town's history is mostly breweries like this one and they are the first thing to fall out of it.

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The Museum

Timeline

  1. 1886
    Opens

    Nanaimo.

  2. 1891
    Closed

    Five years; nothing further is recorded.

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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: 1886, 1891.

    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 Red Lion Brewery (Nanaimo)

Is Red Lion Brewery (Nanaimo) still open?
No. Red Lion Brewery (Nanaimo) has closed (1891). SFU dates Red Lion Brewery in Nanaimo 1886-1891.
When was Red Lion Brewery (Nanaimo) founded?
Red Lion Brewery (Nanaimo) was founded in 1886 in Nanaimo, Canada.
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