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Episode 172 -\xa0To curtail social ills like alcoholism, family violence, and other unsavoury behaviours, religious and puritanical proponents of the Temperance Movement demonized alcohol throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.\n\nAfter numerous U.S. states had become \u2018dry\u2019 outlawing the production and sale of alcohol in the years prior, in 1919, the United States ratified the 18th amendment to their constitution, which banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within the country\u2019s borders. As hoarded supplies quickly began to run dry over the next ten years, Americans looked outside their borders to keep the liquor flowing into the country.\xa0\n\nScores of Canadians stepped up, flouting the laws to move alcohol across the 49th parallel. Many were entrepreneurs with a daredevil spirit, a means of transportation and a desire to make a quick buck, but others were psychopathic, dangerous, mob-connected killers. We\u2019ll talk about a couple of them here.\n\nMike Browne's\xa0new book, MURDER, MADNESS, AND MAYHEM:\xa0Twenty-Five Tales of True Crime and Dark History, is available this November from Harper Collins Canada! You can pre-order your copy now:\xa0https://bit.ly/3oSnKXSSources:[Prohibition: An Interactive History \u2013 Mob Museum][Women Led the Temperance Charge \u2013 Prohibition: An Interactive History][Captain Jack Randell][Captain Jack Randell - Classic Sailboats][The Sinking of The I\u2019m Alone][Heaving To Is a Valuable Skill for All Sailors][Story of the I\u2019m Alone | Decora-chan | Prince Edward Island][Ernest Hemingway - Biographical - NobelPrize.org][The Whisky King - Trevor Cole - eBook][Molls of a mobster | Maclean\u2019s | OCTOBER 5, 1987][Biography \u2013 STARKMAN, BESHA (Tobin)]\nSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices