Canada Barrels and Kegs, Waterloo, Ontario
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Rum barrel produced by the cooperage in 10 and 12 gallon sizes. These were floated across the Niagara River to the United States during prohibition.
- 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. - Inscriptions
- Information written on reverse.
- Date of Original
- March 1920
- Date Of Event
- March 1920
- Dimensions
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Width: 20 cm
Height: 25 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 20cm
Image Height: 25cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- ELP 55 29
- Collection
- Ellis Little Collection
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.463915 Longitude: -80.529613
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:35 Albert Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 5E2
