The building itself dates from the early 1800s, when the Dunn brothers, founders of the brewery, establish their facility on Notre Dame street. Paint, left to its own devices for half a century, cracks and peels like old tree bark. Broken staircases, machine carcasses with undecipherable panels, shells of old brewing chambers, and nesting pigeons hide in its maze-like innards.
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THE DOW BREWERY
The Dow Brewery was one of the principal breweries in Quebec until the mid-1960s, when an unsubstantiated rumour positing a certain foaming additive as a possible cause for a string of alcohol-related deaths put it at the center of a health scandal. Sales of the market-leading Kingsbeer and Black Horse lagers plummeted, and the company never recovered, despite inquiry findings later published that disproved any connection.
These images were captured in late October of 2008.
Today,
parts of the Dow Brewery complex have been transformed into luxury condominiums, keeping pace with the continued and rapid gentrification of the sector.
