This talk focuses on the decline of the retail liquor trade as a private enterprise in the city of Halifax between the 1880s and the imposition of prohibition during World War I. It consists of an examination of regulations promoted by the temperance lobby to undermine the “liquor traffic” and provides a profile of the licensed liquor retailers. Illustrations include photographs of buildings in which drink was sold and advertisements that vendors inserted in the city directories.

Judith Fingard

Judith Fingard received her BA from Dalhousie University and her post-graduate degrees from the University of London, where she completed doctoral studies in 1970.  She spent her teaching career in the Department of History at Dalhousie and served as Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies from 1990 - 1995, retiring in 1997 to pursue research full-time.  Her research interests in Canadian social history have addressed issues of religion, class, gender, race, and disability. Judith served on the Advisory Board of the journal Acadiensis from 1971-2009 and, since the late 1990s, has served terms as president of the Canadian Historical Association and the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Association.  For her contributions to Canadian history she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1991.  Her journal articles and contributions to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography are too plentiful to name, and her books, for which she has received numerous awards, include: The Anglican Design in Loyalist Nova Scotia (1972), Jack in Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada (1982), The Dark Side of Life in Victorian Halifax (1989), Mothers of the Municipality: Women, Work, and Social Policy in Post-1945 Halifax (2005), with Janet Guildford.

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