I can't speak for Canada, but in my childhood in my state in the US, it seemed most every town above a certain populartion had its own soda pop bottling company. I recall going on a school field trip . The pop was often sold in wooden--maybe cardboard, too?--cardboard crates or by bottles, never cans to my recollection, individually at select businesses. The bottling company in my town went out of business by the time I graduated high school, maybe even middle school. Did your town or one nearby have at least one soda bottler servicing local customers?

I had been thinking of the aforementioned bottilng company recently but it was all the more on my mind after a recent trip to the supernarket nearest me. There I saw colorful 16-ounce cans of beer from my town's microbrewery/brew pub. I don't know if these beers are distributed to any other shops (if they're available at the package store where I purchase non-alcoholic beers, I've not noticed them), but I'm kind of glad the practice of beverages being produced locally for locals' consumption has resumed...even if I may drink my town's microbrewery's output. Is there at least one microbrewery where you live?

If where you live has both a local pop bottler and (micro)brewery, whose beverage/s are you more apt to drink?