Founded by British settler John Molson in 1786 in Montreal, Molson Coors—as it’s been called since its merger with American beer company Coors in 2005—is the oldest brewery in North America and was for a long time the largest in Canada. Rebuilt and extended following the Great Fire of Montreal in 1852, for 237 years it occupied 28 hectares in the neighborhood of Centre-Sud on the banks of the St. Lawrence River. This year the new brewery moved to Longueuil, on the opposite side of the river where it has over 140 hectares of space for future possible expansions. The new site also provides easy access to various amenities and infrastructures, including top-quality water, highways, natural gas pipelines and ports.
The Molson Coors facility in British Columbia did exactly the same two years ago. From the metropolis of Vancouver, home to the brewery since 1953, the production site was moved to Chilliwack in Fraser Valley about 100 kilometers to the east. There are practically no limits to its future growth with 36 hectares of land at its disposal – five times the area the brewery had in the middle of the provincial capital. Opened in September 2019, the site is just a stone’s throw from the northern border of the United States and has a direct link to the Trans-Canada Highway. It’s therefore in the perfect position to fulfill its task of supplying the west of Canada and the USA with beverages.