Sit Down and Drink Your Beer: Regulating Vancouver's Beer Parlours, 1925-1954

by Robert A. Campbell

When public drinking returned to much of Canada with the end of Prohibition, former hotel saloons were transformed into closely regulated beer parlours, where beer was served in glasses and only to seated patrons. No entertainment was allowed, not even singing, and eventually there were separate entrances and seating for women. The parlours catered to a working-class clientele, and class, gender and sexuality, race, age, and decency were regulated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802083773
• ISBN13: 9780802083777
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher