Archive record · Brewery
Regal Brewery (Hamilton Brewing Association)
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Also known as Regal Brewing Company, The Hamilton Brewing Association Limited
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Closed
- 1938
- Archive ID
- TB-6TSBATA9
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
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Summary
The Hamilton Brewing Association's Regal Brewery: a brand with a dated label, a corporate owner that also held Dominion of Toronto, and eight years inside Taylor's group as the plant that absorbed others. UNKNOWN: founders, founding year, street address, what became of the building. Next reads: Hamilton Public Library local history; the Hamilton Spectator of August 1930; the Fisher Library's Sherk collection finding aid. Confidence C. Created INTERNAL 2026-09-24; not promoted.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Ownership & corporate history
- Acquired by Brewing Corporation of Ontario / Canadian Breweries lineage1930
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Federal corporate-history report lists Regal Brewing Company Limited (formerly Hamilton Brewing Association Limited) among breweries acquired by the 1930 consolidation.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Events
- Federal corporate-history source identifies Regal Brewing Company Limited as formerly Hamilton Brewing Association Limited.1930
LEGAL_NAME / SUCCESSOR IDENTITY
Exact effective rename date remains UNKNOWN.
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Timeline
- 1903A Regal label, c.1903-1930
The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library catalogues a Regal label by "The Hamilton Brewing Association Limited", dated c.1903-1930 — the company name behind the Regal brand. Founding year and founders: UNKNOWN.
- 1926Buys Dominion Brewery, Toronto
"In 1926, the brewery was sold to the Hamilton Brewing Association, which owned the Regal Brewery in Hamilton" — the Association thus held two plants when Taylor came.
- 1930Merged into Taylor's group; keeps brewing
In August 1930 the Canadian Brewing Corporation — Dominion in Toronto and Regal in Hamilton — merged into Taylor's Brewing Corporation of Ontario. Regal became a consolidation plant: Taylor & Bate's production was moved here when that brewery closed.
- 1938Closed
Closed 1938 per the Canadian Breweries account; no independent corroboration found. Brands attested on objects: Regal, Sherwood / Old Sherwood Ale, Gold Spur Ale, and a tray reading "Regal — Spell it Backwards".
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