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Granville Island Brewing Company

Records of Granville Island Brewing, Canada's first licensed microbrewery, are included in the  as series 4. Dates of material: 1984-2013. Extent: 22 cm of textual records and other materials, including 88 photographs. Online finding aid () published September 2023.

Tin Whistle Brewing Company fonds

Records of the Tin Whistle Brewing Co., a craft brewery established in Penticton in 1995. Dates of material: 1995-2022. Extent: 6.25 cm of graphic materials and textual records, plus artefacts.  published April 2023.

Acquisitions not yet processed

Brewery records acquired but not yet arranged and described:

• Firehall Brewery (Oliver)
• Phillips Brewing and Malting Company (Victoria)
• R&B Brewing Company (Vancouver)
• Whistler Brewing Company (Whistler) – included in the Gerry Hieter fonds

Dave Smith fonds

Records and breweriana collection of Dave Smith, beer journalist and editor, publisher of since 2015. Dates of materials: ca. 1950s-2020. Dates of accumulation: 1990s-2020. Extent: 25 cm of textual records, ca. 500 artefacts. Online finding aid () published February 2024.

Greg Evans fonds

Research files and other records of BC brewing historian Greg Evans (1951-2018). Dates of material: 1969-2017. Extent: 2.25 m of textual records, photographs and other materials. Digitization of much of Evans' research materials is in progress. ) first published in June 2022; accrual added January 2023.

John Rowling fonds

Records of John Rowling, past President and co-founder of the Campaign for Real Ale Society of Britsh Columbia (CAMRA BC), co-founder and long-time director of Victoria's Great Canadian Beer Festival (GCBF), beer writer, breweriana collector. Dates of material: 1985-2022. Extent: ca. 60 cm / 6.8 GB of textual records and graphic materials, plus artefacts. Online finding aid ( published June 2023.

Mitch Taylor fonds

Records of Mitch Taylor, co-founder (with Bill Harvey) of the Granville Island Brewing Company. Dates of material: 1984-2012. Extent: 24 cm, including 88 photographs. Online finding aid () published September 2023.

Acquisitions not yet processed

Personal archives and collections acquired but not yet arranged and described:

• Gerry Hieter (Whistler Brewing Co., Great Canadian Beer Festival)
• Kim Lawton (Okanagan brewing collection)
• Mike Hurst (Labatt's Brewing Co.)
• Mike Stortz BC beer bottle collection

CAMRA BC - Campaign for Real Ale Society of British Columbia

CAMRA BC is a consumer advocacy organization founded in 1990 to champion the cause of quality beer and cider. The Archives' holdings of CAMRA BC records are mostly found in the personal archives of CAMRA members who retained records relating to their participation in the organization. The most extensive set (paper and digital) is included in the fonds of John Rowlings, CAMRA BC co-founder and past President (). A smaller group of files is included in the Greg Evans' fonds (). See also the .

Great Canadian Beer Festival (GCBF) Society

The GCBF Society was a non-profit organization spun off from CAMRA BC in 1995 to manage and organize Victoria's annual craft beer festival. Records are found in the archives of co-founders John Rowlings () and Gerry Hieter (fonds F-319, not yet processed). See also the .

What's Brewing Magazine

What's Brewing is a name associated with the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). CAMRA UK, , and CAMRA Calgary all had newsletters or magazines of this name. newsletter was published from 1990 to 2014; a full run (with a few small gaps) is found in the John Rowling fonds, . In 2015 What's Brewing BC was relaunched by Dave Smith as an independent digital-first magazine reporting on the BC craft beer scene; business records and a full run of print issues (up to the last print edition in 2020) are located in Smith's fonds in . Smith's archives also includes a collection of CAMRA Canada's What's Brewing newsletter (1983-1989) in series , as well as a couple of issues of What's Brewing Calgary (1999-2000) in .