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Ginger Beers of New
Brunswick
By Steve Dickenson
(Daily Digger- Spring, Summer 1993) |
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When one decides to seriously collect Canadian stone ginger beer bottles,
one is then faced with the decision of what bottles to actually collect.
Whether by geographic location (ie. province), designs (ie. animal
transfers) or manufacturer (ie. bottler or pottery house), there is a
potential of several thousand different bottles across Canada to add to
one’s collection. Maritime bottles are popular because of their number and
difference in designs. As well, many brewers used a number of different
bottles and designs over the years in their businesses. Some even dated
their bottles each year. Due to the British army and navy presence there
were many brewers in various maritime seaports.
The following list of New Brunswick bottle companies by town or city while
extensive is not complete as I am sure there are others which have not
come to light at this time. Also in relation to other parts of Canada,
there was a higher use of debossed blob top primitives used in the
Maritimes, especially in New Brunswick.
Fredericton
(Bottles dated, "S.H.
McKee" was earlier predate)
Enterprise Bottling Co. – King
Ginger Beer
(Two out of three
bottles dated)
Harland
(Rare)
Emack Bros.
(Rare)
Leonard Flett
(Rare)
D.H. Crowley
(Rare)
E.J. Segee (Rare)
St. Stephen
- International Drug Co.
(Four known
varieties)
- Excelsior Bottling
Establishment
(Hard to find)
- J.W. Thomas (Quart and
pint debossed primitives)
Havelock
- Havelock Mineral Springs Co. & Ltd.
Sussex
- Sussex Mineral Springs Co. &
Ltd.
- Sussex Beverages P&B Company
- Sussex Ginger Ale Limited
Moncton
- WM Givans & Sons
(Hard to find)
- M.F. Leblanc – Moncton Bottling
Works
(Hard to find)
Chatham
- Cassidy’s Ginger Ale Works Ltd.
(Rare, last bottle sold in 1986 auction for
$620)
Campbellton
- Campbellton Ginger Ale Works
- A. C. Roy Prop.
(Hard to
find)
Saint John
- Dolan Bros.
(Most bottles had
cobalt blue tops)
- Joseph Terris
(Number of
varieties)
- WM B. Daley
- McIntyre & Townsend
(Three
varieties, hard to find)
- Charles Gurd & Co. (Maritime)
Ltd.
- J. Devine
(Very rare,
debossed primitive, last bottle sold at 1986 auction for $550)
- R. Sargent
(Rare, debossed
primitive, last bottle sold at 1986 auction for $570)
- D.J. Britt
(Very rare, bottle
sold in 1992 to Saint John collector for $1000 plus $1000 value in
bottles)
- W.M. Evans
(Hard to find,
debossed primitive)
- M. Hurley
- W.M.G. Brown
- John Bogan
- J.A. Wallis & Son
- R.G. Garnett
- R.J. Garnett
- P. Devine
- T.A. Hooley
- Carvill & Crogran
(This group
are debossed primitives, hard to find too rare to collect)
- J.J. Discoll
- T. Discoll
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