The Toronto Neighborhood That Stayed Dry for 96 Years

The Neighborhood That Banned Alcohol for 100 Years | The Junction In 1948, Ontario's premier won a majority government and lost his own seat, beaten by a 130-pound sweater importer called Temperance Bill. His voters lived in the Junction, a corner of Toronto's west end where you couldn't legally buy a drink, and hadn't been able to since 1904. We go back to the railway boomtown at Dundas and Keele, the unsolved 1897 killing outside the Subway Hotel, the vote that shut every bar in town, and the 1909 annexation deal that locked the ban in place long after the rest of Ontario went wet. More Toronto neighbourhood stories here:    / @clarkeallison8740   Then the cost: a main street with no restaurants allowed to serve wine, a stockyard that closed, a 17 per cent vacancy rate, a man who won a referendum after his own funeral, and the November 2000 vote that finally ended it.