RCO
Well-Known Member
another bottle show find , just getting around to posting it . I was aware there was a bottler from Mattawa Ontario as I had seen a listing in a bottle book for one but I had never actually seen a bottle before . its a fairly small town and only around 2000 people today and not sure what population would of been when bottle used
a seller had this bottle at the Toronto bottle show and I had to pay a little for it but still felt the price was rather reasonable considering its rarity .
don't really know a lot about it , I've actually never been to Mattawa before , although have been to north bay many times and that's fairly close by , just never been down highway 17 in that direction before
also don't have any local history books from that area which might be able to shed more light on who A Gauvreau was or who was bottling in that area . according to a web search it might be Albert Gauvreau .
there is also 3 listings in the ontario bottle books for mattawa . napoleon Gauvreau 1895 ( mineral waters ) , O W Gauvreau 1908 ( aerated waters ) and A Gauvreau 1931 . the time span between the listings and fact there only for 1 year seems odd and perhaps they operated a bit longer . there just wasn't any records to be found . it definitely appears the Gauvreau family was involved in bottling in mattawa for a few years
a seller had this bottle at the Toronto bottle show and I had to pay a little for it but still felt the price was rather reasonable considering its rarity .
don't really know a lot about it , I've actually never been to Mattawa before , although have been to north bay many times and that's fairly close by , just never been down highway 17 in that direction before
also don't have any local history books from that area which might be able to shed more light on who A Gauvreau was or who was bottling in that area . according to a web search it might be Albert Gauvreau .
there is also 3 listings in the ontario bottle books for mattawa . napoleon Gauvreau 1895 ( mineral waters ) , O W Gauvreau 1908 ( aerated waters ) and A Gauvreau 1931 . the time span between the listings and fact there only for 1 year seems odd and perhaps they operated a bit longer . there just wasn't any records to be found . it definitely appears the Gauvreau family was involved in bottling in mattawa for a few years