Booze – When Whisky Ruled the West

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James H. Gray
For years whisky more or less ruled life on the prairies. Hotels out numbered other businesses in towns and cities across the prairies. This resulted in drunkenness, brawling, petty crime, and family poverty. Many paycheques were spent on booze, depriving families of food and clothing. This way of life lead to a vigorous and successful campaign for total prohibition. The Prairie provinces were legally dry from about the years 1916 to 1924. During this period bootlegging flourished. The end of prohibition played an important role on Canadian social history and still effects our lives today. This book deals with the everyday lives of men and women who lived through prohibition and the years that followed. And it tells how eventually booze became a money-making government business.
 

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