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Canada Barrels and Kegs, Waterloo, Ontario

Description
Media Type
Image
Item Type
Photographs
Description
View of the company's "stave yards". Note the railroad tracks and bridge over Silver Lake in Waterloo Park.
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.

Photograph published in "Rolling Out the Barrels 70 Years" a promotional pamphlet from 1942.
Inscriptions
Information written on reverse.
Date of Original
1942
Date Of Event
1942
Dimensions
Width: 25 cm
Height: 20 cm
Image Dimensions
Image Width: 25cm
Image Height: 20cm
Subject(s)
Local identifier
ELP 55 49 19
Collection
Ellis Little Collection
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
  • Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 43.463915 Longitude: -80.529613
Copyright Statement
Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
Contact
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