Prohibition didn't end on P.E.I. until 1948, but anyone wanting a drink of alcohol before that knew exactly where to go. Bootlegging was prolific in P.E.I.'s bygone days, says historian Dutch Thompson. There were as many as a dozen bootleggers in the small town of Souris alone, according to Gus Gregory who was born in 1918 during the heyday of rum-running.
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