Canadian History Readings Understanding Direct and Indirect Causes
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 he manufacture and sale of booze to the United States was big business and several men and women made a fortune smuggling alcohol across the boarder as Rum Runners and Bootleggers. The most infamous of these was Bensley Kerr of Hamilton, Ontario. Kerr was a pianist and plumber by trade and a man who did not like authority by nature. Hamilton was also home to the notorious mob boss Rocco Perri, who was the Canadian equivalent of Al Capone. Perri was one of the most charismatic individuals in the annals of crime and has the dubious distinction of making Hamilton—not Toronto—the head office for Ontario's mobs. Old Established distilleries and breweries expanded frantically during these years to supply the huge American market. In the process, Canada became one of the world's leading producers of distilled spirits, known the world over for the quality of our rye whisky. Men like Rocco Perri and Ben Kerr were the point men who connected the titans of the distilling industry with the bootleggers to the south.
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