Australian Reacts To How Prohibition in Yukon Changed the World
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- Australian Reacts to Prohibition and the Yukon. Where a small town had big International impacts on trade and flight!
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Lived in Dawson City from 87 to 94. Met my wife there. Beautiful place with Beautiful people
The Yukon does get warm in the summer. It doesn't snow all year round.
Its currently 24 hour daylight here in The yukon. And its very very warm right now.
(Also locals say The Yukon)
We still have a few "dry" communities up here. But thats usually done by a native band
I seen pictures of cars taking alcohol to Detroit from Windsor by driving across the ice on the Detroit River. Crazy! There is also a place near Windsor which sold alcohol that even the American gangster Al Capone visited during prohibition, probably placing an order. Windsor, Detroit was a popular area for smuggling during those days
Just so you know, even Yukon gets warm temperatures in the summer months.
well, my canucks love you lol
Prohibition just pushes things underground, which is why all temperance measures ultimately failed. Also why the war on drugs was lost.
The mountain passes are not snowy all year.
Famous historical figures from the US associated with the Yukon and prohibition. Donald Trump's grandfather made the family's money by running a brothel in B.C. on toad to the Klondike and the Yukon, untill he ran out with the law on his heels. Also, the famous gangster, Al Capone, ran the town of Moosejaw, Saskatchewan. Using the fields around Moosejaw, he produced whiskey and used the railway to transport it to Chicago. The town has tunnels and secret rooms so he could store and flee if the police ever came for him. I love both these stories and how Canada played rolls in the paths of some of the biggest criminals in world history.
It was not possible to reach Yukon overland from the rest of Canada until 1942. There were no roads, and nothing but vast regions of forest and several mountain ranges in the way. The only ways to get there were through Alaska, either by the White Pass & Yukon Railway (which is still running), or by going 2,500kms up the Yukon River from the remote shores of Bering Straight.
. . . While there was an enthusiastic Prohibition movement in Canada, and legal prohibition existed briefly, it was never actually enforced with anything close to the effort made in the United States. Canada's three largest ethnic groups, after all, where French Canadian, Scottish and Irish! This was not a fertile cultural ground for making booze illegal. The Prohibition movement in the U.S. was largely a product of urbanization. Hard drinking that was practical in a rural society was disastrous for people living in cities and working in offices and factories. There was a big difference between working as a lumberjack or a farmer in the cold outdoors, where a little drappie was a useful tonic, and working in an office or factory. America cities were filling with slums. Drunken husbands beating their wives and spending their meagre salaries on booze was a genuine social disaster. By the 1920's, the U.S. had shifted into an urbanized society, and Prohibition was taken seriously --- as well as being linked to the issues of women's rights. There was also a growing divide between rich and poor. The wealthy could always drink as much as they wanted in their homes and clubs, and it was no problem for them to discipline the poor, who had to drink in public places.
. . . But Canada was still a largely frontier and rural society, with only a few pockets of urbanism. Other than a few pious Protestant church-goers, hardly anyone in Canada took Prohibition seriously, and there was nothing like the aggressive enforcement the Americans experienced. Canada's leading humourist, Stephen Leacock, made a fortune telling funny stories about it.
. . . Whisky distilling was a major national industry in Canada. Ironically, some of Canada's distilleries were owned by pious Scots Presbyterians who, by clever theological gymnastics, concluded that it was sinful to drink the stuff, but not sinful to make and sell it. American Prohibition meant a bonanza of wealth for cities like Toronto and Montreal, which had huge distilling facilities. Hard liquor would be shipped by the trainload to warehouses near the U.S. border, and then "accidentally disappear." At the Windsor-Detroit crossing, there were cables secretly laid under the river which dragged barrels of booze to thirsty Americans. Canada's enormously long border with the U.S., most of it in unpopulated wilderness, made smuggling easy. Canada's port cities in the Maritime provinces grew equally wealthy smuggling European booze into the U.S.
. . . Consequently, while in the U.S. the Prohibition Era was a major cultural upheaval, chronicled in countless movies and novels, in Canada it's barely remembered at all.
Moose Jaw Saskatchewan was a center for bootlegging booze from the States