Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-25

Island-are socalled dry provinces. All OF the
provinces with the exception of Quebec-whlch
permitted the sale of light wines and beer
were dry during or Immediately following the
World War. Since then Quebec, Alberta, Brit
sh Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan have
returned to the wet column, and from present
indications Ontario may follow suit.
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The present system in Alberta came into
effect in April 1924, after nine years of pro-
hibtion. 1t provides for the sale of hard
liquors, spirits, by government stores or
vender stores to those holding permits. Beer
may be sold by the glass in hotels No limit Is
placed upon the amount one may buy.
In British Columbia, which also had a pro-
hibition law during the war, intoxicants are
sold from government stores. There is beer
sold by the glass, legal drinking in any
public place. Permits are required for the pur-
chase of intoxicants from government stores.
No limit is placed upon the quantity which may
be purchased. This law came into effect in
June 1921, and since that time referendum
on the sale of beer by the glass resulted in a
vote against the practice.
Manitoba tried prohibition for eight years.
and in 1924 a. law approved allowing the
sale of liquor from government stores. The
people voted at the same time against the sale
Of beer and wine by the glass. A permit Is
required for the purchase Of liquor and a cit
izen may obtain only weeks supply at a
time. The big hearted trainers of this law
IL quarts of whisky and as bottles of beer
New Brunswick is dry Nova Scotia and
Prince Edward Island are dry. Ontario is dry,
and its system will be described in detail in
subsequent articles.
Quebec has the liquor law upon which most
of the other wet provinces have modelled theirs.
This law will also be discussed in detail later.
Saskatchewan adopted its present plan in
1924 sitter wartime prohibition and after ref
erendum. Intoxicants may be purchased from
government stores without permit. No beer
or wine IL sold by the glass. The trainers of
the Saskatchewan law also had large ideas
garding the amount of liquor man may buy
at time This amount is set down two
gallons of beer, one gallon Of wine and one
quart of whisky per day. If man feels that
he is being imposed upon, however, and ought
to be allowed little more, no may buy per-
nit for 81 and obtain 10 gallons of beer, 10
gallons of wine and gallons of whisky. the
assumption being possibly. that he will go
home and stay quiet for awhile.
feature of the laws which apply to all those
provinces recently admitted into the wet col
umn is that any municipality can determine
for itself the question of prohibition. There
are different ways Of granting this local option,
but 1t amounts to the same thing in the end.
Perhaps the most widely adopted plan is TO
require the assent of certain proportion of
the residents of community before allowing
the establishment there of a government store
tavern restaurant. This has resulted in
many Of the rural districts remaining dry.
while the cities have gone wet. There are dry
spots in the wettest territories.
The letters which to follow will be writ
ten from Toronto, capital of the Province of
Ontario; Ottawa, capital of the Dominion of
Canada and interesting because Of it's location
the border of wet province, and from Mon
treal, where the Quebec Liquor Commission is
located and where that PROVINCES present ex-
pertinent in the solution of the liquor problem
lends itself most easily to study.
Tomorrow Mr.. McKelway will tell of the
many changes in the Ontario Iiouor law