1. PROHIBITION a CHC2D Canadian History presentation

2. TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES believed that alcohol was the source of society’s miseries — crime, poverty, disease and domestic abuse

3. TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES they pushed for the banning of all alcohol they succeeded in getting some of the ideas taught in Nova Scotia schools in 1882 Sir Wilfrid Laurier refused to accept the results of a 1898 national referendum and make it federal law

4. WORLD WAR I grain was needed for the soldiers, so a special Order- in-Council is introduced in April 1918 and becomes part of the War Measures Act in 1919, Canada joins the United States in prohibiting alcohol unlike the U.S., though, each province had to do it on their own, not through a federal law

5. DATES OF INTRODUCTION 1901: Prince Edward Island 1916: Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario 1917: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Saskatchewan 1918: Yukon 1919: Quebec 1921: Nova Scotia

6. DATES OF REPEAL 1919: Quebec 1920: Yukon 1921: British Columbia, Manitoba 1923: Alberta 1924: Newfoundland 1925: Saskatchewan 1927: New Brunswick, Ontario 1930: Nova Scotia 1948: Prince Edward Island

7. LENGTH less than 1 year: Quebec 2 years: Yukon 4 years: British Columbia 5 years: Manitoba 7 years: Alberta, Newfoundland 8 years: Saskatchewan 9 years: Nova Scotia 10 years: New Brunswick 11 years: Ontario 47 years: P.E.I.

8. SOME REASONS IT DIDN’T WORK Quebec was against it from the beginning and used intense political pressure to force its repeal Newfoundlanders were sailing 30 minutes to St. Pierre & Miquelon, which followed French laws allowing alcohol provinces began to legislate the controlled sale of alcohol: in Ontario, seven years after allowing some places to sell, the L.C.B.O. is introduced to control the sale to everyone

9. BENEFITS TO REPEAL it was politically popular for the parties at election time the U.S. does not repeal prohibition until 1933… and, until that time, illegal alcohol comes from Canada after we repeal it high U.S. demand = higher prices to sell, and some Canadian companies grew into major enterprises such as Labatt’s, Hiram-Walker (Canadian Club Whiskey) and Seagram’s