Work and whisky comprised the cycle of life for many loggers on the coast of British Columbia in the first decade of the twentieth century. Following is one of my early magazine pieces, published in the magazine section of the Vancouver Sun, May 5, 1951. The year was 1906. “As you walk down the […]
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The drinkers’ social custom
Booze 1829 — 1920 People don’t drink because they like the stuff, but simply because it’s the accepted thing to do, argued the Winnipeg Times on April 15, 1879. Physicians say that nearly two-thirds of their male patients suffer in some way or other from alcoholic poison. No close observer will be inclined to doubt […]