N.E Suddaby Druggist bottle Fernie BC

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( any of these books the ones you were thinking of ? found this old auction online , never sold but for 4 Canadian bottle books I haven't seen before , all seem to be from the 70's )



Lot of four: 1) "Western Canadian Bottle Collecting" by George Watson & Robert Skrill, 1971; 2) "Western Canadian Bottle Collecting, Volume 2"; 3) "Bottlers and Bottles, Canadian" by O. Urquhart, 1976; 4) Pioneer Breweries of B.C. by George & Ilene Watson, 1974, hardback. State: City: Date: ID# 47767

http://www.icollector.com/1369-Canadian-Bottle-Collecting-Books_i27257008
 

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the same auction site also had 2 druggist bottles from western Canada , never sold , one is from Saskatoon and other Lethbridge alberta . oddly listed them as "foreign " not Canadian

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Yep, those were the ones I was thinking of! Or at least 1, 2, and 4 are. There's also a soda bottle book not included there.

And I assume they meant "foreign" as in a lot of drug store bottles not from the US, since there was also that British one there. The two prairie bottles are great, I don't think I've ever come across an embossed drug store bottle from the prairies, and that Lethbridge one doesn't look like any other Canadian drug store bottle I've seen.
 

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Norman E. Suddaby, of Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario, graduated from the Ontario College of Pharmacy in 1900. The earliest I have him listed as being in business at Fernie is 1905. He was still in Fernie in 1922. My cross-Canada research for the early 1900s is admittedly incomplete right now. In 1908 he bought out a local rival in Fernie, the Elk Drug Co., and this may explain the elk imagery on the label.
 

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Norman E. Suddaby, of Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario, graduated from the Ontario College of Pharmacy in 1900. The earliest I have him listed as being in business at Fernie is 1905. He was still in Fernie in 1922. My cross-Canada research for the early 1900s is admittedly incomplete right now. In 1908 he bought out a local rival in Fernie, the Elk Drug Co., and this may explain the elk imagery on the label.

some interesting information , so it appears his business was destroyed in the fire but he rebuilt and operated into the 20's , which gives us a good idea when the bottle was likely used
 

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Please let me know if you ever want to part with it, as I collect cross-Canada medicines. Thanks.
 

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