HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Joe Beef, Insecticide, Individualism
22 Apr 2016
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Last call: booze and the regulation of leisure: the historical present: the drinking habits of history 124 students. Prior to 1979 the drinking age as 18 in ontario. You are allowed to serve it if you"re eighteen. Slums, bad housing, the root cause of these was booze: rise of the breweries. First commercial brewery, 1668, 1786 molson opened a brewery canada"s oldest company second to the hudson bay company: functions of drink in pre-capitalist society. Taverns and late 19th-century industrial capitalism: taverns and working-class culture: joe beef s canteen. Can be found on the corner of almost all working class communities, predominantly male spaces. Charles opened up his tavern in the late 1860s, joe beef becomes a notorious part of montreal. The canteen was the haunt of petty thieves and sailors. Inside it is crudely furnished, saw dust covers the floor. There is bread, cheese and beef to eat.
