Prohibition was an anti-liquor legislation introduced during WWI. Every province in Canada had followed suit except for Quebec by 1918. Prohibition was created to end social ills, but it created a new set of problems. At first, prohibition was beneficial to society, because when the bars and saloons shut down, there was less public drunkenness and domestic violence. Canadian criminal activity in the 1920s and early '30s was a result of American prohibition that was in effect from 1919-1933. "Blind pigs" and "speakeasies" were just some of the terms used to describe places where alcohol could be bought illegally. Bootlegging and bootleggers were individuals who illegally made, bought, distributed, smuggled and sold alcohol. Canadians smuggled alcohol and drank at blind pigs until prohibition officially ended in Canada in 1948(P.E.I).
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