CCSI Cork Crowncap Database - Brewer/Bottler
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 Brewer/bottler #14911 | | | Name | McDonald's Beverages Ltd. |
| | | | State/Province | British Columbia |
| | | | | | Extra info | 1953--1961
In 1926, the McDonald Jam Co. of Nelson diversified by acquiring the local franchises for Coca-Cola and Orange Crush and bottling their own ginger ale. They continued in the pop business after they stopped making jam in 1953.
In 1961, McDonald’s foreman Lloyd Galbraith and Len Cutler bought the business and changed its name to Silver King Beverages. Within a year, Len’s son Noel bought Galbraith out.
Silver King-brand pop was only bottled for a few years in the early-to-mid-‘60s.
“It was a whole line of flavours. Not only ginger ale but cream soda, orange, and grape,” Noel says. “Then Coca Cola came out with Sprite and Tab — what they called Diet Coke back then — and their Fanta line of flavours. We had to quit manufacturing our own.”
Around 1968, the Cutlers built a modern bottling plant on Lake Street, after tearing down two former brothels.
“There was a fairly large structure at 608 that had many, many rooms in it,” Noel says. “And then 612 had a smaller house in the middle of the property. I have the parlour light in my summer cottage at Christina Lake out of 612.”
The Cutlers continued with the bottling works until 1973, when they sold to George Wood, who was part of the Ferraro/Super Valu family. He changed the name to Columbia Beverages, and later sold to an Okanagan concern |
| | | | | | | Other names used for this Brewer/bottler | | Name 1 | McDonald Jam Co. Ltd. |
| | | Name 2 | Silver King Beverages |
| | | Name 3 | Columbia Beverages |
| | Extra info | 1973---2000 (approx) |
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