Sky-Hy

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Bottles

Sky-Hy had several bottle designs over its life.

12oz Sky-Hy ACL bottle (front)

12oz Sky-Hy ACL bottle (back)

30oz Sky-Hy ACL bottle (front)

30oz Sky-Hy ACL bottle (back)

12oz Sky-Hy ACL bottle (front)

12oz Sky-Hy ACL bottle (back)

A labelled Sky-Hy bottle. This bottle is in my personal collection, and the label was put on by me as I had about 6 or 7 12oz Ginger Ale labels on hand. I have never seen an actual labelled Sky-Hy bottle

A labelled Sky-Hy bottle. The bottle itself is a standard green embossed-neck Niagara Dry bottle. The authenticity of this bottle is hard to validate as I have never seen an actual labelled Sky-Hy bottle

Bottle Caps

Sky-Hy went through numerous designs for their bottle caps. Designs include:

Standard: A standard design with "Sky-Hy Beverages Registered" and an airplane.
Variant 1: Flavor-specific designs in blue/white, with white text for the flavor names and "Canada's Finest" written on the lower half of the cap.
Variant 2: Flavor-specific designs in blue/white, with colored text for the flavor names and "Canada's Finest" written on the lower half of the cap.
Variant 3: Flavor-specific designs in blue/white, with colored text for the flavor names and "Canada's Finest" written on the lower half of the cap inside a detailed map of Canada.
Variant 4: Flavor-specific designs in blue/white, with white text for the flavor name(s) and "Canada's Finest" written on the lower half of the cap in white text with a dark background.
Variant 5: A (possibly flavor-specific) design in silver/red with the flavor name in the red half. I've only seen this cap in Cream Soda.

Variant 5 Cream Soda cap

Variant 2 Lemon-Lime cap

Variant 3 Lemon-Lime cap

Variant 2 Root Beer cap with yellow text

Variant 2 Root Beer cap with orange text

Variant 2 Ginger Ale cap

Variant 2 Orange cap

Standard Red Sky-Hy cap, flavor unknown

Standard Blue Sky-Hy cap, flavor unknown

What appears to be a standard brown/maroon Sky-Hy cap, flavor unknown. This cap was spotted in a low quality picture of several different bottle caps, hence the terribly quality.

Variant 1 Root Beer cap

Variant 2 Root Beer cap

Variant 4 Cream Soda cap

Variant 3 Orange cap

Variant 2 Lemon-Lime cap

Variant 2 Orange cap

Variant 1 Orange cap

Variant 5 Cream Soda cap

Variant 5 Cream Soda cap

Variant 2 Ginger Ale cap

Variant 2 Ginger Ale cap, side view

Variant 3 Lemon-Lime cap

Variant 3 Lemon-Lime cap, side view

Variant 5 Cream Soda cap

Variant 5 Cream Soda cap

Variant 1 Orange cap

Variant 1 Orange cap, side view #1

Variant 1 Orange cap, side view #2

Several Sky-Hy caps amongst other caps, this image is where some earlier images were cropped from

Several Sky-Hy caps amongst other caps, this image is where some earlier images were cropped from

Labels

Much like the bottle caps, the labels also had several variants:

Variant 1: Features the flavor, "Canada's Finest" text in blue, and "Niagara Dry Beverages" in yellow along the bottom.
Variant 2: Features the flavor, "Canada's Finest" text in blue, and "Niagara Dry Beverages - Niagara Falls, Ont." in yellow along the bottom.
Variant 3: Features the flavor, "Canada's Finest" text in yellow over top of a colorful map of Canada, and "Niagara Dry Beverages - Niagara Falls, Ont." in yellow along the bottom.

12oz Ginger Ale Variant 1 label

30oz Ginger Ale Variant 1 label

30oz Cream Soda Variant 1 label

30oz Ginger Ale Variant 3 label

30oz Lemo-Lime Variant 3 label

30oz Orange Variant 3 label

30oz Orange Variant 3 label in terrible shape

30oz Root Beer Variant 3 label

Full view of a sheet of Variant 2 Root Beer labels from Tim Maitland

Cropped view of a sheet of Variant 2 Root Beer labels from Tim Maitland

Information from the back of a sheet of Variant 2 Root Beer labels from Tim Maitland

Cropped view of a sheet of Variant 2 Ginger Ale, Root Beer, Orange and Lemo-Lime labels from the Toronto Public Library<br><b><a href='https://niagaradry.ca/images/full/skyhy/labels-tpl-hr.jpg' target='_blank'>Click here to view the full-sized (5,411 x 7,215, 10.0MB) image</a></b>

Signs

A wide green sign with red lettering

A tall sign

A tall sign

A tall sign

Old Advertisements

The following scanned advertisement(s) were provided to me by noted Canadian soda bottle collector Fred Spoelstra.

An advertisement for Sky-Hy from January 1942