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Canada Barrels and Kegs Company Limited, Waterloo, Ontario

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Description

Photograph of employees of Canada Barrel and Kegs Limited taken in front of offices on Shantz (later Canbar Street) Avenue.

Front row, left to right; (?); (?); Bill Delion; Jack Maier; (?); Carl Pfeifer; Jack Sehl; Leo Henhoeffer; George Karges; Doug Roeding; Michael Cisarchuk; (?); Clayton Shantz; Bill Havck; Noah Knarr.

Second row, left to right; (?); (?); ? Heater; Alf Friedrick; Albert Schaefer; (?); Alf Weber; Henry Reipert; ? Bordman; Martin Weiler; (?); John Maziarz; Joseph Maziarz (killed in action, WWII); Lloyd Maier; rest of row unidentified.

Third row, left to right; (?); Albert Wahl; (?); Jerome Melhman; (?); ? Zimmerman; Emil Kurtz; Fred Dorsch; Bill Cole; Fred Markus; John Gaenech; Bob Cressman; Fred Cressman; Ed Seibel; (?); Bert Franz Sr.; William (Bill) Rabethge; (?)

Fourth row, left to right; seventh from left, Ted Henhoeffer; (?); Louis Henhoeffer; (?); (?); (?); Alf Hergott; second from the right, William Redmond; rest of row unidentified.

Fifth row, left to right; sixth from left, Henry Karges; seventh from left, Bill Davidson; (?); Henry Mehlman; Dave Rempel; (?); (?); (?); (?); Emil Moesser; Emil Feranhofer; Ed Buck; Henry Heck; Ed Kress; Wilf Hauk; Leonard Shoemaker; Bert Franz Jr.

Notes

Company founded in 1872 by Karl Mueller called Mueller Cooperage and operated out of a frame building at Regina and Erb streets. A brick plant was built in 1906 on Shantz Avenue (later Canbar Avenue, no longer exists) with Karl's son, John Charles taking over. In 1914 the company was incorporated as Charles Mueller Cooperage.

Business was sold to the Seagram family in 1920 and name changed to Canada Barrels and Kegs.In 1960 a division was created to produce Crestliner fibreglass boats under licence to the US owners of Crestliner. Boat production ceased in 1975. Company was registered as Canbar in 1973, and eventually moved to Breslau, Ontario. Factory was demolished in the 1990s.

Subject identified by Margaret Zavaros, June 1993. See comment section for additional identifications.

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