Nov 24, 2024
2025 Calendars Now Available!
$15 shrinkwrapped on foamcore, or $5 each unmounted
Inquire within! https://fvacc.ca/calendar
seen from Belgium
seen from South Africa
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Germany
seen from Netherlands
seen from T1
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from T1
seen from Malaysia
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
seen from Canada
seen from Hong Kong SAR China
seen from Israel
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Mexico
seen from China
2025 Calendars Now Available!
$15 shrinkwrapped on foamcore, or $5 each unmounted
Inquire within! https://fvacc.ca/calendar
Our September-October newsletter is out, with a special feature on the Granville Bridge, and our next meeting is one week away! (September 14th, not today btw!) And this weekend, don’t forget it’s Granny & Grumpa’s Auction in Abbotsford! Here is a preview of few pages; become a member to see the full newsletter!
Cascade Beer - The Beer Without a Peer, from the back of Fruit Magazine (January 1912), seen on archive.org. The name "STAHR" appears in the bottom right hand corner of the image.
Cascade Beer was an early brand of the Vancouver Breweries Ltd, the Reifel family's brewing empire. If you don't already know the Reifels, take a look at a few of their contributions to our city: they built the Commodore Block, the Vogue Theatre and the Studio Theatre (the Studio was across the street from the Vogue, which later became the Eve Theatre (1972-78), the Lyric, the Towne Theatre, Tonic, and now Joe's Apartment); they donated property for the original Vancouver Art Gallery on Georgia Street; they built the "Casa Mia" (recently under contention as the owners want to convert it to a seniors' hospice) and the "Rio Vista", two mansions on Southwest Marine Drive; they farmed sugar beets during WWII on Reifel Farms; and as I've mentioned before, they donated the land for the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Delta. Oh, and yes, they may have participated in sending alcohol into the US during prohibition. But more about that some other time.
Vintage Vancouver beer labels, from Capilano Brewing Company and Vancouver Breweries Limited, seen this week at auction on ebay, from a seller in Warsaw, Poland of all places. The Capilano Brewing Company dates back to 1934 (note the label is stamped 621+35, my guess indicating 1935) and the second label is a special Jubilee beer for the city's 50th birthday in 1936 (note the label is stamped 4+8+36, most likely indicating 1936). Vancouver Breweries Limited dates back even further to 1901, and became part of the holding company British Columbia Breweries in 1911, and continued to operate under the name Vancouver Breweries for a good while. Cursory brewery details obtained from the book Brewed in Canada: the untold story of Canada's 350-year-old brewing industry by Allen Winn Sneath.