Torontoist » Bootlegging http://torontoist.com Torontoist is about Toronto and everything that happens in it Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:18:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Historicist: Life in Wartime

Every Saturday at noon, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. Visit of Chinese officials to John Inglis Company, February 27, 1942. City of Toronto Archives, Series 1057, Item 2171. On September 10, 1939, Prime Minister Mackenzie King officially declared war on [...]

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Every Saturday at noon, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. Front page of The Star on November 19, 1924. In the heady 1920s, Ontario was a dry province. After the war, the Ontario Temperance Act, which originally prohibited public consumption and [...]

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