Beer was introduced to Canada by British settlers in the seventeenth century. The first commercial brewery was La Brasseries du Roy started by New France Intendant Jean Talon, in Québec City in 1668.
Bottles of beers from several Canadian-based breweries placed on a table being used to play beer pong
Depiction of Alexander Keith's Brewery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, c. 1865–70
Queues outside a Commission des liqueurs du Québec store, 1945. The end of prohibition in Canada saw a number of its provincial alcohol authorities created and charged with the distribution of alcohol.
Exterior of Creemore Springs brewery in Creemore, Ontario. Creemore Springs was one of many microbreweries that was acquired by a larger "macrobrewery".
The Molson Brewery is a Canada-based brewery based in Montreal and was established in 1786 by the Molson family. In 2005, Molson merged with the Adolph Coors Company to become Molson Coors.
Beer in Canada
…brewing industry has seen the major players in Canada acquired by or merged with foreign companies, notably its three largest beer producers: Labatt, Molson and Sleeman. The result is that Moosehead, with an estimated 3.8 percent share of the domestic market in 2016, has become the largest fully Canadian-owned…
1924 advertisement; "Fifty six years ago when Sir John A. Macdonald was first premier of the Dominion of Canada in 1867, MOLSON'S ALE was then 81 years old!"
Store in Montreal with advertising for Molson Brewery, 1910
Former Molson Brewery in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada