Whatever the amount of liquor smuggled within Canada, it seems likely that far more was smuggled from Canada into the United States. Since breweries and distilleries could still legally operate in Canada, it was an easy matter to produce liquor in Canada for sale to American bootleggers. In the West, it was trucked across the border. Along the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence, speedboats were popular for nightly runs. In the Atlantic provinces, schooners such as the one above were experiencing hard times as they were made obsolete by motor and steam ships, so many a hard-pressed owner turned his hand to smuggling. It is said that as a result outport churches often suffered quarrels, with smuggling families sitting on one side of the church and temperance families on the other.
