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Where Did Pure Spring Get Its Water? Brading's '1000-Foot' Well

Pure Spring sign, Westboro (1946). [Orig. image via Ottawa Archives – colourized by Ashley Newall] Writing another Ottawa beer history story this month (on George Stirling’s Dominion Brewery , formerly at the foot of the Rideau Canal locks), as I did a year ago on Henry Brading’s Union Brewery , I found myself once again drawn to the brewery water source… 

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