Minutes of Evidence


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Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada


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"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.




Booze


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Booze runs through Canadian social history like rivers through the land. And like rivers with their currents and rapids. backwaters and shoals. booze mixes elements of danger and pleasure. Craig Heron explores Canadians' varied experiences with and shifting attitudes towards alcohol in this revealing. richly illustrated book. Book jacket.




Drink in Canada


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Nine essays explore aspects of alcohol consumption and regulation, and public attitudes about it, in Canada from the 1830s to the 1980s. Among them are how prohibitionist campaigns unified ethnic communities, the association of women alcoholics with prostitution and child neglect, institutions for alcoholics, the Temperance Act in the 1880s and 1890s, and the economics of rum running. Canadian card order number: C93-090466-4. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR