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- Archival Film Flashes Back to 70s Student Life
- Manuscript Traces SFU's Architectural History
- Early University News Publications Now Digitally Available
- Digitized Programs Commemorate SFU’s Opening & Installation Ceremonies
- Archives Celebrates Fall Convocation with Release of Digitized Programs
- Films Capture Visual History and Sentiment of Time Gone By
- Lost and Found: Simon Fraser Letters
- Oral History Provides Glimpse into Mind of SFU’s First Chancellor Gordon Shrum
- Early SFU Photos Tell a Story That Frames Our World
- Aerial Photos Capture Campus Landscape & Photographer’s Legacy
- You have what...?!! and other interesting things you didn't know about the SFU Archives
- Charting the course of history: documenting SFU's early days from the student perspective (Part 1)
- Charting the course of history: documenting SFU's early days from the student perspective (Part 2)
- Helping others find their history in the future: Preserving the records of the Students of Caribbean and African Ancestry at SFU
- Preserving the sparks of global revolution in the Adbusters Media Foundation fonds
- Reflections of a co-op student
- Debunking popular myths and conspiracies with the Barry Beyerstein fonds
- In "The Beginning...": First student film returns to SFU
- "Got any pictures of Terry Fox?"
- My summer in the archives: a co-op placement retrospective
- Seeing the world through Arthur Erickson's eyes
- Beer (records) in the Archives!
- Quartet in the Quadrangle: PSQ Records Come to SFU
- Navigating silences and filling gaps: finding Black stories in the Archives
- Boxes, boxes, and more boxes: my summer co-op at SFU Archives
- Glossary
BC Breweries Timeline
Timeline of BC breweries, colour-coded by region. If a name is truncated, hover over the entry to view the full name and dates. Entries on the same row indicate continuity, e.g. a name change of the same brewing company or a new company at the same brewery site.
See mistakes or omissions? Contact SFU Archives to suggest additions or revisions.
Data derived from:
- Bill Wilson, Beer Barons of BC (Lantzville: Tamahi Publications, 2011).
- What's Brewing Magazine, 30th Anniversary Special Edition (Vol. 30, Issue 2, Summer 2020).
- Joe Wiebe, Craft Beer Revolution: The Insiders Guide to BC Breweries (Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 2015).
- Allen Winn Sneath, Brewed in Canada: The Untold Story of Canada's 350-Year-Old Brewing Industry (Toronto: Dundurn, 2001).
Last updated: April 24, 2023
Colour key by region:
Vancouver Island-Central Coast Vancouver-Coastal Fraser Valley Thompson-Okanagan Kootenay Rockies Cariboo-Chilcotin Northern BC
Black bar = Prohibition (Oct 1, 1917 to Jun 15, 1921)
Brewery marked with double asterisk ** = Did not operate.