Waterloo Public Library Digital Collections

Kuntz Brewery Fountain, Waterloo, Ontario

Description

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Image

Item Type

Photographs

Description

Children playing in the fountain in front of the Kuntz Brewery at King and William Streets. In the background is a horse-drawn wagon, late model cars and shop fronts with awnings.

Notes

The brewery was started by David Kuntz in the 1830s, brewing his beer in an old wooden washtub during the day and selling it from a wheelbarrow around the county at night. By the early 1840s, Kuntz had enough capital to purchase a brewery hotel from Christopher Huether. The building still stands at the corner of King and Princess Streets and is now known as the Huether Hotel and Lion Brewery.
The business was called Spring Brewery because it used water from a spring on the property. The operation was later moved to the corner of William and Caroline Streets. In the early 1870s, his son Louis took over, renaming it L. Kuntz’s Park Brewery. After 1929 it was sold and became Carling-Kuntz Brewery until approximately 1940 when the Kuntz name was dropped. In 1977 Carling Brewery was purchased by Labatt Breweries of London, but the Waterloo plant was closed by 1993 and all the buildings on the site had been demolished.
See also F2X and P191.

Date of Original

[ca. 192-]

Date Of Event

[ca. 192-]

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