Sweeney Cooperage Ltd

SWEENEY COOPERAGE LTD, at one time the largest barrel maker in the British Empire, was established in VICTORIA in 1889 by Michael Sweeney, a cooper from Newfoundland. The elder Sweeney ran the company until 1920; that year his son Leo (1886–1977) took over and expanded the business, then called Canadian Western Cooperage, to VANCOUVER. It became Sweeney Cooperage in 1940, and sold barrels to customers in more than 40 countries from its 4-ha site on FALSE CREEK. Business dwindled in the 1970s...

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