… Dan Malleck examines the conditions that led to Canada’s current drug laws. Drawing on
newspaper accounts, medical and pharmacy journals, professional association files, asylum …

… Dan Malleck shifts the focus to Ontario following repeal of the Ontario Temperance Act, an
… Malleck’s investigation of regulation in six diverse communities reveals that rather than only …

Positioning consumer culture in Canada within a wider international context, Consuming
Modernity explores the roots of modern Western mass culture between 1919 and 1945, when …

This essay examines the perceptions of American drinkers in Ontario border communities as
discussed in the records of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. It argues that Americans in …

A look at the activities of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, from its inception in 1927 to
1944, with regard to licensing hotel beverage rooms in the Niagara region would indicate that …

In the drive for the consolidation of professional authority, physicians in the nineteenth
century sought to exert control over all associated occupations, and weaken the influence of …

This article examines the debates about drug addiction, as presented by medical and non-medical
reformers in Victorian Canada, to explain the emergence of anti-narcotic legislation in …

Along with regulating the sales of liquor in provincial stores, overseeing the manufacture of
alcohol, and inspecting the public drinking establishments in the province, the Liquor Control …

1870s-1908 by Dan Malleck* 1 he creation of pure food and drug legislation in Canada was
intricately connected with the regulation of the public's access to dangerous drugs, and the …

This article examines the growing awareness of drug addiction as a form of mental illness in
several Canadian lunatic asylums in the last half of the nineteenth century and the …