HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Liquor Control Board Of Ontario, Joe Beef, Canada Temperance Act

• School: Queen's University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 124
• Professor: Steven J Maynard

Document Summary

Last call: booze and the regulaion of leisure: the historical present: the drinking habits of history 124 students. One of the biggest poliical social issues was a sworn aim by thousands of hundreds of canadians to stop drinking. Prior to 1979 the drinking age was 18. Root cause of many problems was not capitalism or the growing inequality but rather the demon liquor . Drink in pre-industrial canada: rise of the breweries. Molson opened a brewery in montreal making it the irst brewry in na, second oldest company in canada. First patent that the new province of canada issued was in part of molt liquours. In many canadian companies, rye was served as penny a court. Children were given a shot of rye to keep them warm on the way to school during winter. Water was oten unsafe during this ime. Many companies refused to insure if you were not a heavy drinker. 1878 almighty drunk jam in the hoc.