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Prohibition was a law that was supposed to stop the drinking and selling of alcohol in Canada and the United States. Prohibition was thought a patriotic duty during the World War I. Many groups were for prohibition like the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

The first province to enforce prohibition was Prince Edward Island in 1901, soon followed by the rest of the Provinces and Territories.

In 1898, there was a national plebiscite to stop the legal sale of liquor. But the Government of Sir Wilfred Laurier thought the number of voters against the east was too great and dissolved it.

Quebec, which never really enforced the Prohibition act, was the first to drop it. British Columbia followed in 1920 and gradually the other provinces followed. The last province to give up was Prince Edward Island in 1948.

Scott Campbell, Robi Sault, Richard Purnell
ALF School 1989