Closing time
Subtitle: prohibition, rum-runners, and border wars
By: Daniel Francis
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781771620376
Subjects: Temperance; Smuggling; Liquor laws; Prohibition; History
Description: "Canadians have long associated Prohibition with the colorful history of the Jazz Age in the United States. But even before the American ban that was in place from 1920 to 1933, Canada initiated its own Prohibition. The so-called Cold Water Army was led by zealots and prudes preaching hellfire and damnation, but also by committed social reformers who recognized the ill effects of excessive drinking. In March 1918, the federal government banned the manufacture and importation of liquor. For the next 21 months, Canada was as dry as any law could make it, which admittedly was not very dry. Closing Time tells the story of this fascinating attempt to control the social habits of Canadian citizens. It began as a popular crusade to cleanse society of a widespread evil, but instead became an opportunity for larceny, profit, and violence on a grand scale."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-179) and index.
Table of contents: title: Greenaway Of The Star; title: The Cold-Water Army; title: Running The Border; title: The Rum-Runners; title: Hello Neighbour, Let's Have A Drink; title: Sources.