Archive record · Brewery
Regina Brewing Company Limited
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Founded
- 1907
- Closed
- 1944
- Archive ID
- TB-0V14YEJ1
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
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Summary
Status: CLOSED. Historic Regina brewery founded by Julius Mueller, George Rumberger and William Williams. Fritz Sick acquired the company in 1924. It remained a distinct corporate brewery and was renamed Sicks' Regina Brewery Limited effective 1944-08-01. [Canada Pass 26]
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
The Museum
Timeline
- 1907Special & Porter
Founded 1907 by Julius Mueller, George Rumberger and William Williams (the archive's Regina heritage source); labels: "Special & Porter – 1907–1915", then "Royal Lagerine – 1920–1924" under prohibition, and the company's own name on labels 1924-1944 (label chronology).
- 1924Fritz Sick
Sick acquired the company in 1924 (the archive's source); a stock-certificate dealer's page says he "reopened it in 1925". Both kept.
- 1944Sicks' Regina Brewery Limited — and on to 2002
Renamed Sicks' Regina Brewery Limited from 1 August 1944; the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan runs the plant as one chain, "Regina Brewery (then Sick's Regina Brewery, Molson Regina Brewery, Molson Saskatchewan Brewery) (1907–2002)".
Surviving objects
3 objects catalogued here so far, held by Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library — Lawrence C. Sherk Canadian Beer Label Collection and Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan — Newspapers & Publications. That is what the archive has recorded, not the extent of what the holder keeps — follow each link for the institution's own finding aid or catalogue. The archive links to each record rather than reproducing its photograph; the images belong to the holding institution and are licensed object by object.
- sk-obj-fisher-bavarian-stoutc.1928-1944
Beer label
- sk-obj-fisher-regina-old-stylec.1924-1944
Beer label
- sk-obj-newspaper-regina-old-style-19351935-04-20
Newspaper advertisement
Straight answers
Common questions about Regina Brewing Company Limited
- Is Regina Brewing Company Limited still open?
- No. Regina Brewing Company Limited has closed (1944).
- When was Regina Brewing Company Limited founded?
- Regina Brewing Company Limited was founded in 1907 in Regina, Canada.
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