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Tim Hortons invades New York City

A former Dunkin' Donuts franchise owner has quarreled with the Dunkin' Donuts organization which no longer wants his business.  As a result, he is turning his 13 New York City properties into Tim Hortons outlets.  The Canadian coffee, donut, and lunch shops are unfamiliar in New York City, and competition is fierce there, so observers are doubtful about success.   For more, see here.

Catholic temperance societies in Toronto in the 1870s (article)

This is an old but neglected article available as a PDF text on the Internet.

Brian P. Clarke, "'Heroic Virtue': The Catholic Temperance Crusade in Toronto during the 1870s," CCHA, Historical Studies 54 (1987): 57-67.  Irish Catholic women joined parish confraternities but not Irish Catholic men who made the tavern the center of their social life.  Priests hoped to break the grip of the tavern with a temperance crusade.

7 New Emerging Wine Regions

Global warming is partly responsible for emerging grape growing regions according to an article by Simon Majumdar at AskMen.com - here is the link.

Smoking and feminine modernity (article)

Penny Tinkler and Cheryl Krasnick Warsh,  "Feminine Modernity in Interwar Britain and North America: Corsets, Cars, and Cigarettes," Journal of Women's History 20/3 (2008): 113-43.

Rum running in western New Brunswick (newspaper series)

Anne Marie Murphy is the author of an ongoing series of articles in the Bugle-Observer that make "Rum Running in Western New Brunswick" their main title.  The article for 22 May 2009 is subtitled "The Thirties," while that for May 26 2009 is called "Madawaska and Victoria Counties ... a Look at the Economic Benefits [to New Brunswick] of [United States] Prohibition and the Politics of Booze."  She promises an installment for York County where her own family had been active in the rum running trade.  The articles are based mostly on anonymous interviews with elderly New Brunswick residents.

Prohibition in 1850s New Brunswick (article)

Greg Marquis, "Contesting Prohibition and the Constitution in 1850s New Brunswick," in Hamar Foster, A. R. Buck, Benjamin L. Berger, eds, The grand experiment: law and legal culture in British settler societies [Law and Society] (Vancouver: published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by UBC Press, 2008): 221-39.

Alcohol Control States and the Three Tier System

On Friday, May 15, at the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association's annual Conference in Arizona, public health policy analyst Dr. Peter Anderson will be on a moderated panel discussion on "The Middle Tier: Building Promotion and Control" with three others from government and industry.

From the conference brochure - "The middle tier of beverage alcohol distribution seems to be a phenomenon that is often described as a linchpin and necessity for an orderly marketplace. Is the middle tier critical to reducing alcohol abuse, ensuring tax collection, and preventing tainted products? Are monopoly entities such as the Scandinavian countries, Canadian Provinces, and US Control States considered a middle tier?"

The Three Tier System is described here by an Illinois wholesaling distributor. It would be interesting to investigate how the system of marketing medical marijuana compares to the Three Tier System, and conjecture how future marketing systems of other possibly legalized recreational drugs might also relate.

History of beer in Canada

Nicholas Pashley, Cheers! a History of Beer in Canada (Toronto: HarperColllns, 2009).

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About The Book E-mail this pagePrint this page Enlarge image Cheers! By Nicholas Pashley Price: $19.99 On Sale: 14/08/2009 Formats:     Trade PB Book Description We like beer in Canada. We really, really like it. And it’s not just a fly-by-night, sordid little affair. We’re in it long term. We spend something like $8 billion a year on beer. From barley growers to label designers, more than 170,000 Canadians owe their fulltime jobs directly or indirectly to beer. The rest of us just do what we can to help.   In the long-awaited follow up to Notes on a Beermat, Pashley explores beer in Canada, covering many salient points, including chapters on   • Frère Ambroise, Who Started It All (Unless He Didn’t) • Us Against Them: Canadians and Our Neighbours to the South • When Canadians Knew Squat: The Stubby in Our Lives • Beer: Isn’t It Bad for You and Bad for the Planet? • Ale or Lager? East Is East and West Isn’t • Barkeep! Gimme Another Light Dry Low-Carb Ice Beer with No Aftertaste • Are You a Beer Geek? (There’s No Right Answer) • The Future of Beer: Can I Afford to Drink Beer? (Can You Afford Not To?)   And much, much more!

Rum in Atlantic Canada until 1830 (dissertation in progress)

Emily Burton has begun work on a Dalhousie University doctoral dissertation on rum in Atlantic Canada from the early eighteenth century until about 1830.  For details, see here.  Thank you to David Trippel for his continued contributions to this blog.

'Ontario's beer police are running amok'

For the National Post, John Ivison describes how in Ontario "a private conversation in a bar can be taken down surreptitiously by a third party and used as evidence in a quasi-judicial hearing" and how this is becoming "the reality of life in a province that is under increasingly intrusive surveillance."