Year Speaker Topic

1892 Dr. McMillan, M.D. The Moon James McIssac (Journalist) Sir Thomas Moore Dr. Caven (Professor) Canadian History

1893 Peter McCourt Journalist) Archbishop Hughes J.J. Johnston Lawyer) League of the Cross Silas M. Bent Journalist) John Boyle O'Reilly Dr. James H. MacLellan, M.D. Hygiene (4)

The third strategy was involving the members in such activities as debating, acting and singing. Debating clubs from Kinkora competed with those from Newton and Dmerald. The Kinkora choir entertained in Emerald; and the Emerald Drama Club reciprocated. By 1894 Father John J. is called "that sincere and faithful advocatgxdfiifemperance;" and the parish: "Today the greater numberA... belong to a society in which liquor under no form is

tolerated." (5)

Without wishing to detract any from the success of :his effort, it must be emphasized that the people at Kinkora were not staunch prohibitionists. In four referanda on prohibition, in 1879, 1884, 1893 and 1906, they voted overwhelmingly against it. (6) It appears that while many of them were quite willing to adopt abstinence as a personal virtue, a majority oéthem were not willing to support prohibition as a political policy. They were being'

liberal rather than doctrinaire in this matter.

The movement had its costs however; horse-racing in Kinkora disappeared for twenty-seven years. In the advertisement for races in Kinkora in 1889 the owner of the race track, John 0' Ranaghan, warned: "Vendors of strong drink will be roughly

handled if caught selling intoxicating liquor." (7) In 1890,

the last year that races were advertised for Kinkora, Mr.

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