This Week in History: The Royal BC Museum’s collection from the early days of beer brewing in B.C.

There are currently more than 170 craft breweries across this British Columbia.

It’s an industry that has a long history in this province, and the Royal BC Museum has a wonderful collection from those early brewing days.

The collection includes items such as a Bunster’s Brewery brass spigot circa 1866, a Stanley Park ginger beer bottle from the 1890’s, a cardboard box from the Second World War which held a dozen pints of beer, and a collection of bottlecaps from the 1930’s onward.

Veronica Cooper looked over the collection with Paul Ferguson, collections manager at the Royal BC Museum’s history department.

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