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...Quebec, Canada...
...citizens planning summer tours of Canada have observed that Ontario liquor prices are considerably lower than liquor prices in Quebec. Prices announced when Ontario became Wet (TIME, March 21) easily underbid prices in Quebec, and though Quebec has replied by issuing a new downward revision of its liquor tariffs, Ontario still claims the least expensive of Canadian thirsts. A comparative price list...
...export, the provincial authorities over sale. Thus a majority of Canadians may not decree that an individual province shall be either Dry or Wet. At one time or another each of the nine Canadian provinces have gone Dry; but the following have resumed liquor sale under restricted government control; Quebec, 1918; British Columbia, 1921; Manitoba, 1923; Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1924; Ontario...
...fine wines; Wet U. S. Congressmen watched with interest. In the legislature of the Province of Ontario before crowded and expectant galleries, Premier Ferguson introduced his bill to do away with the present liquor laws* and substitute others based on the limited franchise laws of Ontario's sister province, Quebec. He faced an enthusiastic dripping Wet majority triumphantly elected last December...
...Boston professional hockey team was returning from Quebec in its special car. At the border custom officers boarded the train; were shocked to find 20 quarts of whiskey concealed in the athletes' luggage. The contraband liquor was seized; fines of five dollars per bottle imposed; reprimands administered. Just as the culprits were about to be sent on their way, further search of the car revealed 65 additional bottles hidden in a linen closet. The car was detached from the train; the entire team detained in Richford...