HIST 1300 Study Guide - Labatt Brewing Company, Industrial Revolution, Gateway Drug Theory
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In 1874, per capita, every man woman and child is drinking a lot, average 301 standard drinks of hard liquor, 35 standard drinks of beer. Explorers believe that all canadians do is drink. They drink because they don"t have clean water, and cholera spreads, so they just drink liquor. 1870s, they get fresh water and start drinking that, from this, a prohibition movement emerges and wants liquor to go away. Significant because he is the founder of labatt"s brewery. Born in 1803 in ireland, in a small town, at the time, that town is a small agricultural town caught up in the industrial revolution. The turning point for him is moving to london england in 1830, at the age of 27. Significant because it inspires john labatt to go into brewing later in life, wants to get a foothold in society. This brewery is huge, 330,000 barrels of beer per year, primarily port and ale.
