Winnipeg’s main street in 1894. Tough times were blamed on the high costs of John A. Macdonald’s National Policy, but with a plethora of bachelors, men were said to be excited about the prospect of boatloads of buxom young English women. Glenbow Archives NA-118-24. Free trade 1840-1894 A correspondent for the Regina Standard, December 7, […]
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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 […]