Lead story in the May-June 2020 issue of Canada's History is Daniel Francis's article "Booze," on the tangled history of Prohibition in Canada and why it failed
As the years passed it became conventional wisdom that prohibition was a classic case of the cure being worse than the disease. The jury is still out on whether it succeeded in reducing the consumption of alcohol.Also two lavishly illustrated art history essays, one built around Mark Reid's interview with McMichael Gallery director Ian Dejardin about the enduring appeal of the Group of Seven, the other Nanette Martin's story on an earlier artist somewhat eclipsed by the Group, Homer Watson.
Andrew Findlay provides a backgrounder on the long history of T'silqot'in nation's struggle to defend its territory and have its title to land recognized. A prairie mosque, Christopher Dummitt's new podcast, DNA testing's risks, and much else. Not least the oddest photo I'm seen in a while. Apparently in 1942 a group of reenactors dressed up as German soldiers and drove military vehicles through the streets of Winnipeg giving Nazi salutes and waving swastikas -- as a War Bonds fundraiser! Would not be allowed today, I'm thinking, and we don't even have a war on.
