Drink in Canada

Download or read book Drink in Canada written by Cheryl Lynn Krasnick Warsh and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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