Prohibition in Ontario

These primary sources mostly argue in favour of prohibition (also known as temperance), though some argue the contrary.

At a provincial level, temperance efforts finally succeeded (for a time) with The Ontario Temperance Act in 1916. In the 1920s, The Dominion Scientific Temperance Committee created striking posters in support of prohibition.

Why did groups like the Dominion Alliance advocate prohibition? In short: "Temperance activists and their allies... believed that alcohol, especially hard liquor, was an obstacle to economic success, social cohesion and to moral and religious purity" (The Canadian Encyclopedia).