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Don't never tell nobody nothin' no how : the real story of West Coast rum running

Don't never tell nobody nothin' no how : the real story of West Coast rum running

Book 2018

"At the stroke of one minute past midnight, January 17, 1920, the National Prohibition Act was officially declared in effect in the United States. From 1920 to 1933 the manufacture, sale, importation and transportation of alcohol and, of course, the imbibing of such products, was illegal. Prohibition was already a bust in Canada and it wasn't long before fleets of vessels, from weather-beaten old fish boats to large ocean-going steamers, began fi...