12/30/2025
H.W. Glendinning, one of Halifax’s earliest soda water manufacturers and one of the rarest Halifax bottles.
Henry William Glendinning was the first to bottle soda water in Nova Scotia. He started to manufacture soda water in Dartmouth N.S. as early as 1836. In 1864 a son William J. joined the firm and was shortly followed by another son John R. in 1872.
W & J. Glendinning operated as a soda water manufacturing and ice business until 1884. William died in 1884 and John renamed the company John R. Glendenning & Co. This soda water business continued until 1890.
From 1836 to 1863 H.W. Gendinning & Co
From 1864 to 1872 H.W. Glendinning & Son
From 1873 to 1884 W & J. Glendinning
From 1885 to 1890 John R. Glendinnings Gilles
