CanadianBottles
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Ooh, I love that Malkin's Best bottle! That may be my favourite out of the bunch because I never had any idea that anything like that existed. I'm well aware of Malkin's Best but I never had any idea that they were in any way involved in the soda business, even if it was just extract. I very rarely see paper label sodas from BC. The only one I regularly see is the incredibly valuable Felix paper label. It's odd that B.C.'s most common paper label soda is also its most valuable ABM soda (as far as I know anyway, there's a rare Felix ACL that might compete). I've got a couple of dug BC embossed soda bottles with just the hint of paper labels, I wish so much that I could make out what they said.
Nanaimo Bottling Works was a very odd company, because unlike most companies with bottles that are very difficult to acquire they were around for several decades. I'm not sure how early they started but they have a couple of very scarce bottles that appear to date from the 10's or 20's, then they disappear until the shield ACL shows up, and their bottles remain hard to find until the fifties when that bottle cap ACL shows up and that one seems to be everywhere. And then they go out of business around that time when the number of bottles implies they were just getting successful. One thing I've learned about NBW though is that they were a franchise bottler for Orange Crush and a few other drinks, so it's possible that they didn't do much bottling of their own lines of soda until right around the time of their demise.
Nanaimo Bottling Works was a very odd company, because unlike most companies with bottles that are very difficult to acquire they were around for several decades. I'm not sure how early they started but they have a couple of very scarce bottles that appear to date from the 10's or 20's, then they disappear until the shield ACL shows up, and their bottles remain hard to find until the fifties when that bottle cap ACL shows up and that one seems to be everywhere. And then they go out of business around that time when the number of bottles implies they were just getting successful. One thing I've learned about NBW though is that they were a franchise bottler for Orange Crush and a few other drinks, so it's possible that they didn't do much bottling of their own lines of soda until right around the time of their demise.