• The 1915 Alberta liquor plebiscite was the first plebiscite to ask voters in Alberta whether the province should implement prohibition by ratifying the...
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  • by-election 1915 Thirsk and Malton by-election 1915 Alberta liquor plebiscite 1915 Edmonton municipal election 1915 Manitoba general election 1915 Prince Edward...
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    Sarah (2015). "Prohibition Plebiscites on the Prairies: (Not-So) Direct Legislation and Liquor Control in Alberta, 1915–1932" (PDF). Law and History...
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    free) for more than a century after the 1915 Alberta liquor plebiscite. In 2023, following a municipal plebiscite in which residents voted narrowly in favour...
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  • marriage, which was a divisive issue in Canada. A national plebiscite had been suggested by Alberta Premier Ralph Klein and some Conservatives and Liberal...
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    legislation permitted beer parlours to open in hotels. The 1923 Alberta prohibition plebiscite was conducted on Nov. 3, 1923, and a majority voted in favour...
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    March 12, 1957 in order to adopt a motion to create the 1957 Alberta liquor plebiscite. The vote was hotly contested with a number of Social Credit MLAs...
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    to block the new name but they were unsuccessful. In May 1915, residents voted by plebiscite to name the new city as Prince George with a vote of 153–13...
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  • the government introduced new amendments to expand access to liquor, following the plebiscite which had favoured reduction in prohibition. Turner spoke against...
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    underway in the United States, smugglers bought large quantities of Canadian liquor. Both the Canadian distillers and the U.S. State Department put heavy pressure...
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  • Suffrage for Filipinas was achieved following an all-female, special plebiscite held on April 30, 1937. 447,725 – some ninety percent – voted in favour...
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    liquor. A majority of more than 25,000 voters opted for the sale of alcohol under regulation by the provincial government. Five days later, Alberta,...
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  • Court, "business franchise fees" on retailers of products, particularly liquor and tobacco products. These "franchise fees" were mostly calculated according...
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    Prohibition of alcohol was introduced in Alberta under the binding results of a liquor plebiscite in 1915. The United States Army activated the 17th...
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    (1996). 1750-1915: Theatre in the Colonies and the United States. Cambridge University Press. p. 198. "Colonel Says He Abstains from Liquor". Milwaukee...
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    the American Relief Administration. In the wake of the Upper Silesia plebiscite of March 1921, an expert report by the Committee of the Allied Supreme...
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  • the citizens of Portage la Prairie to decide on whether to support a plebiscite for the tax. When the Manitoba legislature discussed redistribution of...
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