Rum-running in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, was a major activity in the early part of the 20th century. In 1916, the State of Michigan, in the United States...
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Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law. The term rum-running...
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1920s, alcohol prohibition was enforced in Michigan while alcohol was legal in Ontario. Rum-running in Windsor was a common practice then. On October 25...
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2023 Yukon high-altitude object (category 2023 in international relations)
Yukon and near Ontario". CTV News. Retrieved February 16, 2023. Cecco, Leyland (February 14, 2023). "Hunt for mysterious object shot down in remote Yukon...
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Canadian whisky (category All Wikipedia articles written in Canadian English)
whisky featured prominently in rum-running into the U.S. during Prohibition. Hiram Walker's distillery in Windsor, Ontario, directly across the Detroit...
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Detroit River (redirect from List of bridges in Detroit)
this era are occasionally still found on the bottom of the river. Rum-running in Windsor and production of bootleg liquor became common practices. American...
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Canadian Club (category Economy of Windsor, Ontario)
running water and installed street lights. In 1890, the Ontario government acknowledged Walkerville as a legal town. It was incorporated into Windsor...
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Blaise Diesbourg (category Prohibition in the United States)
born in 1897, was also known as "King Canada," and was a major figure in the liquor smuggling and bootlegging business around Windsor, Ontario during...
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Middle Island (Lake Erie) (redirect from Middle Island (Ontario))
"clubhouse" that became the centre of rum-running activity. The hotel offered electricity, fireplaces, and a large screened-in porch with views of the lake. The...
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Gooderham and Worts (category Defunct companies of Ontario)
makes Gooderham & Worts brand whiskies but does so at its plant in Windsor, Ontario. The production of the American bourbon whiskies formerly owned by...
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Dominion House (category Buildings and structures in Windsor, Ontario)
oldest remaining continuously run tavern in the Windsor-Detroit Border region and one of the oldest in Ontario. From its commencement it has served and...
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until 1933 Transfer II, in use until 1938 Detroit Manitowoc (built 1926) Windsor (1930) Ferry from Grosse Ile to Gordon, Ontario between 1873 and 1888 on...
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Rocco Perri (category Organized crime in Hamilton, Ontario)
home on Bay Street. Kerr was described by the some as "King of the Lake Ontario rum-runners" (smugglers who typically used boats). Kerr was operating within...
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Lake Erie (redirect from Water pollution in Lake Erie)
States, Lake Erie's northern shore is the Canadian province of Ontario, specifically the Ontario Peninsula, with the U.S. states of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania...
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might be by small boat from Windsor across the river to Detroit only helped the province's economy. Rum-running occurred in other provinces as well. The...
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paved its first street in 1920. Blenheim grew during the Prohibition as men were involved in illegal rum-running operations. In 1924, W.G. Thompson opened...
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Scotiabank (redirect from National Trust Company of Ontario)
headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. One of Canada's Big Five banks, it is the third-largest Canadian bank by deposits and market capitalization. In 2023, the...
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Downriver (section Representation in other media)
the fact that the Detroit River, after running more or less west along the banks of Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, then bends to flow largely south before...
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Detroit Partnership (category Gangs in Ontario)
based in Detroit, Michigan. The family mainly operates in Detroit and the Greater Detroit area, as well as in other locations including Windsor, Ontario; Toledo...
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Canada–United States border (section Ontario)
beverages ("rum running") was widespread during the 1920s, when Prohibition was in effect nationally in the United States and parts of Canada. In more recent...
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Cheddar cheese (category Cheeses with designation of origin protected in the European Union)
Following a wheat midge outbreak in Canada in the mid-19th century, farmers in Ontario began to convert to dairy farming in large numbers, and cheddar cheese...
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This list of museums in Ontario, Canada contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government...
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Prohibition (redirect from Prohibition in Finland)
as a temporary wartime measure. Much of the rum-running during prohibition took place in Windsor, Ontario. The provinces later repealed their prohibition...
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J.P. Wiser's Whisky (category Articles lacking in-text citations from December 2014)
Windsor, Ontario, distillery. John Philip (J.P.) Wiser was born in 1825 in New York, to Isaac J. Wiser and Mary Egert. In 1857, Wiser began running the...
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Bessie Starkman (category Deaths by firearm in Ontario)
figure in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in the early 20th century. She and her common-law husband, Italian-born Rocco Perri, established a business in bootlegging...
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Horse racing (redirect from Horse racing in China)
particular breeds, running over obstacles, running over different distances, running on different track surfaces, and running in different gaits. In some races...
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Joseph Brant (category Indigenous leaders in Ontario)
Mohawk military and political leader, based in present-day New York and, later, Brantford, in what is today Ontario, who was closely associated with Great...
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African descent on plantations in the West Indies. Products typically associated with Newfoundland such as molasses and rum (Screech), were produced by the...
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172–188. doi:10.2307/2204556. JSTOR 2204556. Kelley, Sean M. (2018). "American Rum, African Consumers, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade". African Economic...
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