When booze was banned
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Newfoundland Ranger liquor raid at St. Lawrence, 1943,Newfoundland Ranger Force Association fonds. Smuggling enforcement was taken more seriously after responsible government failed in the 1930s.
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Historian Mark Hunter says, “Many people thought turning a region dry might cure society’s ills.” — Submitted photo
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Liquor raid at St. Lawrence; Newfoundland Ranger Ian Glendinning (Regt. #28) with cask of rum, 1943, Newfoundland Ranger Force Association fonds. — Photo courtesy The Rooms Provincial Archives Division, VA 128-8.1
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