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The Rise and Fall of Canada’s Temperance Movement

The Rise and Fall of Canada’s Temperance Movement
Police confiscate illegal alcohol in Elk Lake, Ont., in 1925. Public Domain
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Temperance activists from Victorian times to the interwar years strove to reduce or ban drinking in Canada, with mixed success.

C.P. Champion
C.P. Champion
Author
C.P. Champion, Ph.D., is the author of two books, was a fellow of the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen's University in 2021, and edits The Dorchester Review magazine, which he founded in 2011.