Whiskey Bottles Smuggled in Animal Carcasses, British Columbia.
Did prohibition work? It is not easy to give an answer. First, there were plenty of loopholes in the laws. It was never illegal to drink. Usually the laws only prohibited retail sale and only for sales entirely within one province. That is, it was often legal to import liquor for private use from another province. In Ontario, it was even legal to buy and sell wine by retail so long as it was Ontario wine.
In addition alcohol could be purchased by prescription as a medicine. As a result, Canadian prohibition was not so thorough as that in the United States. There was also, as the picture indicates, smuggling of liquor.
