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Medicine Hat's Early Breweries and Prohibition Roots
The article traces Medicine Hat’s brewing origins with early operators Butler and Flynn, Annie and Molly’s contraband routes, and the rise of Thomas W. Ireland who established Saskatchewan Brewery on Main Street. It notes licensing crackdowns, closures by inland revenue in 1887, Ireland’s later death, and his burial near Seven Persons Creek as the town’s first in the new cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medicine Hat
North-West Mounted Police
CPR
Morrow
Butler
Flynn
Annie
Molly
Montana
Thomas W. Ireland
London
England
Amelia
Hamilton
Pease
Regina
Ireland
Main Street
Monarch
Saskatchewan
P Smith
South Railway
Thos. Ireland
A.R. Tracey
Department of Inland Revenue
North-West Territories
New” St. Barnabas
Seven Persons Creek