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Susannah Oland

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256:, a friend of the family, suggested that they market Susannah's "Brown October Ale" and John, whose time with the railway had ended, agreed. On 14 August 1867 the business was incorporated with John designated as manager, places set aside for three of his sons, with funds provided by de Winton, George Harvey and Thomas Mowbray. Though Susannah was the chief brewer and had been the inspiration for the business, her name was not on the agreement. Because they started the business in the Turtle Grove District of Dartmouth, it was called the Turtle Grove Brewery. Within a short time, there were nine employees and the business was the third largest operating in Dartmouth. John's name may have been on the paperwork, but Susannah ran the business. 193:, England, Culverwell married John James Dunn Oland (1819-1870). The couple had nine children: Susannah Elizabeth (1843-1918), John Athelston (1844-1849), Charles Egbert (1846-1846), Ethelred Henry (1847-1899), John Culverwell (1849-1937), Conrad George (1851-1917), Huldah Sarah (1853-1933), Mary Stephens (1854-1945) and George Woodhouse Culverwell (1856-1933). 263:
and the other two partners sold their interests to a manager, George Fraser, who had formerly been employed with a competing firm. Undaunted, Oland continued working at the brewery, which had been renamed the "Army and Navy Brewery", in honor of her biggest patrons. For eight years, the business
281:, on 24 March 1885. After her death, as her will had stipulated, control did not pass to her eldest sons, but rather to her youngest son, George, with provisions made for her daughter Hulda. The business she drove to be incorporated just 90 days after Canada's 268:
newspaper. She began operating the brewery under the gender neutral name, "S. Oland, Sons and Company", training her sons to be brewmasters. For the remainder of her life, she worked at the brewery; as of 2011 she is the only woman to have run the business.
165:, the business was incorporated in the name of her husband and sons. When her husband died, the partners sold their interests to a manager, whom Oland was able to buy out eight years later. She continued running the business until her death. 264:
operated under that name, though it was destroyed and rebuilt twice because of fire. In 1877, after receiving an inheritance from a relative in England, Oland bought out Fraser and published a notice of the partnership's dissolution in a
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When John died in a riding accident on 20 October 1870 Oland was left with no control over the brewery. Compounding matters, de Winton had been transferred to
181:, England, to Betty (nÊe Grabham) and George Woodhouse Culverwell. In 1841, she was living in the household of Samuel and Ann Mogg. On 26 September 1842 at 1054: 205:
and a dealer in tea and beer in Bristol after he and Susannah married. He filed for bankruptcy in 1844, and then studied accounting, going to work at the
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I Know That Name!: The People Behind Canada's Best Known Brand Names from Elizabeth Arden to Walter Zeller
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in 1947. It is the oldest independently operating and the largest privately-owned brewery in Canada.
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and she brewed beer. Within three years, the family was reunited and rented a house in
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John supposedly studied as an Anglican minister at Cambridge, but worked as a
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Brewed in Canada the Untold Story of Canada's 300-Year-Old Brewing Industry
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Susannah Woodhouse Culverwell was born 7 February 1818 in
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spawned two brewing dynasties in Canada, as after the
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West Monkton
Somerset
Richmond, Virginia
Dartmouth
Nova Scotia
Moosehead Brewery
Englishwoman
Canada
Moosehead Brewery
brewer
West Monkton
Somerset
St. Stephen's Church
Bristol
Gloucestershire
tobacconist
London and South Western Railway
Trowbridge
Wiltshire
Hawley
Farnborough
Surrey
Hampshire
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Railway
intercontinental railway project
Dartmouth
Francis de Winton
Gibraltar

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