Prohibition

====Canada====
{{Main|Prohibition in Canada}}

[[Indigenous peoples in Canada]] were subject to prohibitory alcohol laws under the ''[[Indian Act]]'' of 1876.<ref name=Campbell>{{Cite journal|last=Campbell|first=Robert A.|date= Winter 2008 |title=Making Sober Citizens: The Legacy of Indigenous Alcohol Regulation in Canada, 1777–1985|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/238951|journal=Journal of Canadian Studies| publisher = University of Toronto Press | language=en|volume=42|issue=1|pages=105–126|issn=1911-0251|doi=10.3138/jcs.42.1.105|s2cid=145221946}}</ref> Sections of the ''Indian Act'' regarding liquor were not repealed for over a hundred years, until 1985.<ref name=Campbell />

An official, but non-binding, federal referendum on prohibition was held in 1898. Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier's government chose not to introduce a federal bill on prohibition, mindful of the strong antipathy in [[Quebec]]. As a result, Canadian prohibition was instead enacted through laws passed by the provinces during the first twenty years of the 20th century, especially during the 1910s. Canada did, however, enact a national prohibition from 1918 to 1920 as a temporary [[World War I|wartime]] measure.<ref>{{cite book | first = J.M. | last = Bumsted | title = The Peoples of Canada: A Post-Confederation History, Third Edition | url = https://archive.org/details/peoplesofcanada00bums | url-access = registration | location = Oxford | publisher = University Press | year = 2008 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/peoplesofcanada00bums/page/218 218], 219| isbn = 978-0-19-542341-9 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | first = Greg | last = Maquis | title = Brewers and Distillers Paradise: American Views of Canadian Alcohol Policies | journal = Canadian Review of American Studies | volume = 34 | issue = 2 | year = 2004 | pages = 136, 139}}</ref> Much of the rum-running during prohibition [[Rum-running in Windsor, Ontario|took place in Windsor, Ontario]]. The provinces later repealed their prohibition laws, mostly during the 1920s, although some local municipalities remain dry.