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Farming or fishing wages of $35 a month could not compete with monthly rum-running salaries of $400 a month for a captain. [20] Seventy-five percent of all illegal liquor brought into the United States was transported across the Detroit River from Canada, mainly along the thirty-five mile stretch from Lake Erie to the St. Clair River. In fact ...
Rum-running from Canada was also an issue, especially throughout prohibition in the early 1900s. There was a high number of distilleries in Canada, one of the most famous being Hiram Walker who developed Canadian Club Whisky .
Malahat, a large 5-masted lumber schooner from Vancouver, BC, was known as "the Queen of Rum Row" in her day. [2] She became famous (or infamous) [3] for rum-running on the US Pacific Coast between 1920 and 1933. The Vancouver Maritime Museum says that Malahat delivered "more contraband liquor than any other ship." [4]
As a result, the U.S. paid a fine much lower than the amount initially requested by Canada. [3] Captain Randell and Amanda Mainguy, the widow of the crew member who died, both received restitution. [4] The widow of dead sailor received $16,000 whilst Captain Randall received $7,000. The owners of the I'm Alone received no restitution. [7]
Farming or fishing wages of $35 a month could not compete with monthly rum running salaries of $400 a month for a captain. [4] Seventy-five percent of all illegal liquor brought into the United States was transported across the Detroit River from Canada, mainly along the thirty-five mile stretch from Lake Erie to the St. Clair
Nellie J. Banks was a 35 GRT cod fishing schooner turned "rum runner", built in 1910. She was one of the last rum runners seized off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1938. Nellie J. Banks was renamed Leona G. Maguire in 1941.
Canadian whisky featured prominently in rum-running into the U.S. during Prohibition. Hiram Walker's distillery in Windsor, Ontario, directly across the Detroit River and the international boundary between Canada and the United States, easily served bootleggers using small, fast smuggling boats. [21] [22]
HMCS Reo II was a former rum-running vessel turned military vessel from Meteghan, Nova Scotia.Built in 1931, the ship was used for rum running for five years until Prohibition ended, and was turned into a coastal freighter.