Wine gallon a wine gallon to an Imperial gallon, multiply by 0.833111. To convert an Imperial gallon to a wine gallon, multiply by 1.200320. Some research concludes that the wine gallon was originally meant to hold 8 troy pounds of wine. The 1707 British statute defines the wine gallon as – e.g. a cylinder in diameter and high, c. 3.785 litre – and was used to measure the volume of wine and other commercial liquids such as cooking oils and honey. A 14th-century barrel of wine contained , which equals one-eighth of the tun of 252 gallons. Wine gallon A wine gallon
Gary Gallon Gary Gallon Gary Thomas Gallon (October 1, 1945 – July 3, 2003) was a Canadian environmental activist and policy advisor. President of the Canadian Institute for Business and the Environment, and editor of "The Gallon Environment Letter", Gallon dedicated 30 years to raising environmental awareness among Canadians and inspiring environmentalists worldwide. Originally from California, Gallon came to Canada during the Vietnam War. Gallon's early forays in environmental activism included helping to found the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC, now one of the oldest environmental organizations in British Columbia) and co-founding Greenpeace. His later moves away from heady activism into the