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By Brett Ruskin for CBC News
A Halifax man has found a beer bottle nearly as old as Canada, with century-old suds still inside.
Jon Crouse was scuba diving in the ocean waters of Nova Scotia’s Northwest Arm during a rainstorm this week. The consummate collector of undersea objects shoved his arms into the silt on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.
His hand hit the bottle, but at first, he didn’t think he had found anything special.
“I’ve been looking for bottles since I started diving,” Crouse said. “I’ve found quite a few vintage bottles.”
The bottle he found Monday certainly fit that description.
Crouse has used markings on its bottom to trace its origins to a company that imported bottles to Canada from England between 1872 and 1890…CONTINUE READING AT CBC NEWS
