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Temperance unions rose to popularity amid the suffering and poverty in cities in the late 1800s. In 1916, BC held a plebiscite to determine the fate of legal alcohol consumption, in which prohibition passed with a vote of 54% against the legal sale of alcohol. Only a few years after, however, due to the inevitable rise in bootlegging and "medicinal" alcohol sales, the law fell apart, and by 1921, liquor stores began operating again.

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Oh Jamie did you hear the news,
The news that’s spreading round?
They’re going to throw out all the rum
Upon the blooming ground.
And when we’re coming home from work
All thirsty, tired and late,
We’ll have to be content with tea
Or else cold water straight.

‘Tis goodbye now, Old Demijohn,
And goodbye, Little Brown Jug,
‘Tis goodbye, O Nutbown Ale,
That foams from the Schooner’s mug.
And goodbye Scotch, ‘twas first-rate stuff
That made us canty feel,
And made old folks feel young enough
To dance a rousing reel.

The brewers and hop-raisers then
Will all be hopping mad;
And oh the prohibitionists,
They will be whopping glad.
They say we’ll have fair weather then,
That B.C. will be dry,
From Nelson and Kelowna towns,
Far North to the Horsefly

‘Tis said that soon John Barleycorn
Will have no place to go.
He’ll have to mount the watercart
Or else go down below.
He’s had his day; he’ll have to go;
How can he longer stay?
So we must all give him a foot
To help him on his way.

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from Settler's Songs of the Pacific Northwest, released June 2, 2017
Words by Edwin Enoch Kinny, published in “Westward: and other poems” in Vancouver around 1923.

Thomas, Philip J., and Shirley A. Cox. Songs of the Pacific Northwest. Ed. Jon Bartlett. 2nd ed. Surrey, BC: Hancock House, 2007. Print. pgs 92-95, 201.

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Katie Green and Karen Hefford are two musicians from Vancouver who combine classical and folk music influences. Their close-knit harmonies and varied instrumentation bring a fresh interpretation to traditional songs. ... more

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