Canada Dry: Temperance Crusades before Confederation

by Jan Noel

Book Overview

The Temperance movement has played a large part in the history of Canada. From the founding of the first known temperance society in 1822 until the passage or near passage of prohibition laws in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the province of Canada in 1855, over half a million colonists took the abstinence pledge.

This overview by Jan Noel is the first major study of the subject since Prohibition in Canada by Ruth Spence, published in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802069762
• ISBN13: 9780802069764
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"