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Bootleggers. Ryan Himmelman & Will Barkhouse. Alcohol Prohibition. Prohibition is the banning of alcohol. It was put into effect after the war during the roaring twenties in Canada and the United States.
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Bootleggers Ryan Himmelman & Will Barkhouse
Alcohol Prohibition • Prohibition is the banning of alcohol. • It was put into effect after the war during the roaring twenties in Canada and the United States. • By 1925, some provinces did way with prohibition but it lasted longer in other provinces and the United States. • Because alcohol was banned in some places and not others, bootleggers and rum runners transported it across borders and made large sums of money doing it.
What is Bootlegging? • Bootlegging is the business of smuggling or transporting of alcoholic beverages illegally. • This mainly took place during the prohibition of alcohol between 1918 and 1933.
Methods • Traveled by schooners from the Maritimes to the border of the American territorial waters. • Speed boats arrived and took the alcohol the rest of the way. • Bootleggers walked across the border into the United States and sold it to Americans. • Used boats to transport it across inland waterways.
Al ‘Scarface’ Capone • Al Capone was a notorious gangster and bootlegger in the United States during the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920’s and 30’s. • He got the nickname ‘scarface’ after getting slashed in the face at a bar. • Murdered people but was never convicted of it. He was finally put in Alcatraz in 1932 for tax evasion. During his time he was harassed by other inmates
Rocco Perri • Rocco Perri was involved in organized crime in Canada during the inter war years. • He specialized in transporting liquor from Canada to the United States. • It is not know how he died. It is thought that he was murdered but his body was never found.
The “I’m Alone” • The schooner “I’m Alone” was Canadian schooner that smuggled alcohol to Louisiana. • She was sunk by The American Coast Guard while she was in international waters. • It was illegal for the coast guard to pursue a ship while it was outside territorial waters.
Stills • Still’s were made so people could make there own alcohol. • All that was needed to make one was a jar, copper tubing, a kettle, stove, a bathtub, and fermented mash. • Every year people died from ‘rot gut’. This was because they made it wrong.
References • Canadiana Scrapbook; The Confident Years: Canada In the 1920’s • Wikipedia • Google Images • ‘I’m alone’ Picture • Still Picture #1 • Still Picture #2
