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Prohibition was repealed in B.C. in 1921. But booze remained illegal in the U.S. until 1933, which made it a very lucrative export business for enterprising Canadians.
Hence you had a story on an “international convention of bootleggers” in Winnipeg that ran in the May 15, 1922, Vancouver Sun. The “three-day session” attracted “more than 30 members of the ‘profession’ from the principal cities of Canada and the United States.”
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Details were scant the meeting was at an unnamed hotel, by unnamed bootleggers. But an “informant” spilled the beans.