1.5K views · 33 reactions | While Canada never had federal prohibition like the United States (apart from a brief period during the First World War), the provinces were a different story. Some, like Quebec, had prohibition for a few months. Others, like PEI, had it in place for nearly half a century. | Canadian History Ehx | Facebook

During prohibition in the 1920s, the government was trying to dissuade people from drinking industrial alcohol, so they poisoned it and made it extra toxic thinking that people would just stop drinking it but instead it made many people sick and over 10,000 people actually died. Eventually prohibition ended and there was more regulation regarding alcohol, formulation and consumption. But there definitely was a dark past regarding prohibition. In the 1920s. #prohibition #1920s #alcoholpoisoning #