Doering & Marstrand Brewery

When the creek area in Mount Pleasant became Vancouver’s first piped waterway, multiple local beverage-makers in the area emerged to take advantage of the creek for their water supplies - giving the area the moniker Brewery Creek. This particular building of exposed brick, stone and beams that once housed Doering and Marstrand Brewery Co. was one of them.

According to the building permit issued in October of 1903, the building was an expansion of the Vancouver Breweries Ltd. complex. "The new two-story building featured a bottle washing room equipped with automatic electric machinery and was constructed for use as a storage cellar for ageing ale," according to an article from the Province newspaper in 1903.

It continued to be used for other industrial and manufacturing purposes after it ceased being a brewery facility, to produce dairy and ice, along with packing goods.

One of the notable features of the building is the hand painted Fell's Candy Factory sign on the E 6th Avenue façade - a nod to its time as confectioner Benjamin F. Fell's Candy Factory.

In 1993, the building was modified when an extension was added to the roof top monitor of the building by Kasian Kennedy Architects to create a live-work space for artists. Today, the building has ceased its industrial use and has been converted into 14 townhouses for residential purposes – each with distinct renovations done by individual owners.

Source

Mount Pleasant Stories: Historical Walking Tours - Mount Pleasant's Heritage Heart by Christine Hagemoen; Vanalogue blog; AuthentiCity (City of Vancouver Archives) blog

More information

https://www.sfu.ca/archives/archives-program/research/bc-beer-history-archive.html