The Big Brown Jug
by Nina Silver
Title
The Big Brown Jug
Artist
Nina Silver
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph With Creative Digital Enhancements
Description
The Big Brown Jug is a photo painting of an old jug of Canadian Whiskey found on display in the showcase of Gooderham's distillery in downtown Toronto. As the label says, Gooderham and Worts was Canada's first distillery. Founded in 1832, Gooderham & Worts began as a windmill in the wilderness and grew to become the largest distillery in the world and the largest corporate taxpayer in Canada.
The temperance act in Ontario Canada ran from 1916 to 1927. As legislation prohibiting consumption of alcohol was repealed, it was typically replaced with regulation imposing restrictions on the sale of alcohol to minors and excise taxes on alcoholic products. In Ontario, the Liquor Control Act of 1927 allowed the sale of alcoholic beverages for individual purchase, but public drinking of full strength alcohol (in pubs, taverns, restaurants, beverage rooms) remained illegal. In 1934, the new Liquor Control Act permitted public drinking, but only in hotel beverage rooms and dining rooms, and only beer in the former and beer and wine with meals in the latter. The Liquor Control Act created the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, whose local inspectors were to apply regulations based upon the community's standards of propriety. Within Ontario the act was also passed in an effort to encourage people to eschew the illegal drinking places and drink legally.
I don't drink, but the history of this 'medicine' fascinates me.
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February 19th, 2018
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