During Prohibition when booze was banned, reluctant liquor control officer Clifford Rose found himself in the middle of a dispute between a corrupt politician…
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Hugh Corkum was the wireless operator of The Liberty, the fastest rum running ship operating in the Maritimes during Prohibition when booze was banned.…
Fur trapping was big business in NB, as this 1925 photo of young Ronald W. Smith admiring the trapped foxes shows. The profitability of…
In the 1890s Frederictonians pooled money together to help fund a new health institute. It was based on an extraordinarily bizarre new health remedy:…
A carload of four young people — two guys and two girls — were driving home from a dance on a dark and stormy…
Joe Walnut, then just a small fish, began to set in motion the plan that made him the leader of The Maritimes and New…
In September of 1928, a massively overweight New York gangster named Jamie Clark came to Lunenburg to buy a schooner to smuggle illegal booze.…
This photo is of a New Brunswick pharmacy in the 1920s. The caption for it simply read “George Dalzell The Druggist.” I in no…
Details on this photo are few, but this is thought to be a photo of two officers of the Saint John Police Force defiantly…
Not modern hipsters, but rum runners from a century ago. Provincial Archives of New Brunswick P6-1232 Maritime farmers and fishermen who had spent their…
Artist William Hogarth made a career out of critiquing drinking in his paintings and etchings in the 1700s. (William Hogarth, Beer Street, 1750–51) It…
The Maritimes' most feared gangster, the prohibition era rum running kingpin who went by the alias "Joe Walnut." (Archives des Religieuses Hospitalieres de Saint-Basile,…