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"Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire."
Plato
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McCord Museum M930.50.8.480, 1850-1885
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Nova Scotia Brewery-Alexandra Keith, Halifax, NS, established 1820. La brasserie ne´o-e´cossaise Alexander Keith, fonde´e en 1820, Nouvelle-E´cosse, 1865-70, LAC C-150714
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Grenville Brewery, Prescott. Brasserie Grenville, Prescott, n.d., LAC e008748941
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Woman's Holy War, Currier &Ives, New York, 1874, LC2003656595
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A group at the bar at the Vendome Hotel in Cumberland, BC Archives D-01287, 1880
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OR THE DEVIL LAUGHS.
Sad end of the work of the Vigilance committee and the license commissioners. Jubilation of the innkeeper. Despair of the mother.
Le vrai canard, Montréal, 23 April 1881
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Puck, New York, 16 May 1883
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TRIUMPH OF THE HOTEL OWNERS
Humiliation of ministers who had to withdraw their famous resolutons on licenses.
Le canard, Montréal 10 May 1884
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An apostle of temperance. Theory. Practice.
Passepartout, Sorel, Quebec, 27 October 1888
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Group of the WCTU meet in Toronto, 1889, Digital Archive Ontario
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The Tree of Dissipation, The New Temperance Primer, London, 1890
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Puck, New York, Dec 1891
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Teetotaler - T total abstinence
Bootlegging – carrying illicit booze at the top of your boot
"We soon learned that compulsion will not make people sober; it must be brought about by the example of the best people. The prohibition law made more drunkards than if there had been an open bar and free drinks on every corner street."
Samuel Benfield Steele
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E1 Dominion Scientific Temperance Committee, Provincial Archives of Alberta, PR1974.
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The Moon, Toronto, 17 January 1903
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Total Abstinence, Toronto Ref. library 1910.Abstinence.tb, 1910
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Temperance Education, 1 Toronto Ref. library, 1910
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Nellie McClung and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, BC Archives E-06019
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St. Louis Times, reprinted Judge, New York, 29 October 1910
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Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1984-4-940 Dominion W.C.T.U.
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Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1984-4-932 Dominion W.C.T.U.
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"Ah! When are we going to get rid of alcohol?", B. Chavannaz, 1914-1918, LAC e010754245
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Self conquest for the sake of others . . . , 1915 Digital Archive Ontario
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Police arresting a man for illegal possession of alcohol, Toronto, LAC PA-069901, 16 September 1916
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Rare Books and Special Collections, UBC
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View of liquor stills captured during Prohibition. City of Vancouver Archives, VPD-5214, CVA 480-215, ca. 1917
"I have different names that I am known by.
Sometimes I am beer; sometimes whiskey, rum or wine, but always booze.
My measure is always determined by my nature, whether hard or soft: my cost likewise.
I am the "waste product" of society.
I beget inefficiency.
I hinder recruiting.
I stifle patriotism.
I am food destroyed.
If the grain used to make me were used for food I could feed the Allied armies and they would not lack.
Nor would Britain fear starvation by the submarine.
When you drink me you are helping Germany starve Britain; you are making the Kaiser a present of a nail to drive into the coffin of Democracy; you are crucifying Belgium afresh.
Cut me out! I, Booze, say it.
Quit committing treason by drinking me."
John H. Roberts, Montreal, 4 June 1917
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"Four and twenty Yankees, feeling very dry,
Went across the border to get a drink of rye.
When the rye was opened, the Yanks began to sing,
'God bless America, but God save the King!"
Duke of Windsor, 1919
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Bob Satterfield, Cartoons Magazine, Chicago, October 1919
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[BC was the first province to open government-owned liquor stores in June 1921, ending prohibition. Other provinces soon followed.]
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George Matthew Adams, Cartoons magazine, Chicago, December 1920
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National Archives of Quebec, 1921 et 1933
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Cartoons magazine, Chicago, March 1921
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"Prohibition destroys respect for law. It increases crime. It degrades and corrupts those who attempt to enforce it."
Manitoba pamphlet, 1923
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Art Young, Life, New York, 2 August 1923
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Judge, New York, 13 September 1924
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Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1983-33-1123 Citizen's Liberty League
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Acc. No. 1983-29-113
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Blind pigs raided, 160 kegs destroyed, Elk Lake, Ontario, Ontario Archives F1194
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"Four-and-twenty Yankees,
All very dry,
Crossed the Yankee border
To get Canadian rye.
When the rye was open,
They began to sing,
'To hell with Calvin Coolidge,
God Save the King.' "
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Canadian Postcard by E.L. White (c. 1929-1930) [source - Postcardy: The Postcard Explorer]
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Ontario Archives 1930?
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American bar clients celebrating the end of prohibition. December 1933
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Les Callan, The Toronto Star, 3 April 1946
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Dethrone King Alcohol, Library of Congress LC-DIG-ppmsca-42681, Topeka, 28 October 1951
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Queen's Journal, Kingston, 14 October 1966
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