Exceptions to the Temperance Act:

1. For medical purposes, no less than one pint on the certificate of a medical man. 2. For bonnafide use in some art, trade, or manufacturing

purposes, on a certificate of two J .P’s and the affirmation of the applicant.

3. For exclusively Sacramental purposes, on the certificate of a clergyman.

4. The Lieutenant Governor may license one or two to vend for the above purposes.

5. Brewers or distillers, wine manufacturers, and exclusively

wholesale dealers, may sell not less than 10 gallons, to be taken out of the district, and not into any district where the law is in force. In case of a prosecution, the vendor must prove that he had reasonable grounds for believing that the liquor would be taken away.

The Examiner in April of 1879 reported that the penalties for the first offence of illicit selling of alcohol would be not less than $50; for a second offence less than $100; for the third and subsequent offences, not , less than two months imprisonment. (52) In an attempt to overcome the inconveniences, enterprising Islanders quickly found a place for rum , running in the local markets. T 0 help maintain anonymity, most rum—running boats were j Painted gray. The dangerous, but profitable, game of smuggling alcohol j to the United States began in 1920 when the United States passed . prohibition. The American Act forbade the sale, but not the consumption 0f alcohol. Since Canadian prohibition ended in 1919,* and provincial laws did not stop the manufacture of liquor for export, many Canadians began the practice of rum running to the United States. Two rum running entrepreneurs from Charlottetown, Ray Clarke and Edward Dicks, were the most prominent figures within the Island ; branch of the business. In September of 1926, they purchased a small 3 SChooner called the Nellie J. Banks, to be employed in PEI’s rum running 1 trade. (53) Launched in 1910, its early career as a fishing vessel changed 1 In 1926, when it was announced the Nellie J. Banks would henceforth 1 Carry freight. Once Captain Dick‘s name was announced in connection . Wlth the Nellie J. Banks, however, it was quickly assumed by many what the “freight” would consist of. The Island’s north shore was the focal point for rum running trade. The majority of vessels, including the Nellie J. Banks, went to the Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon for their supplies Where there were no Km “BY 1920 every Canadian province had abandoned prohibition in favor of government—operated liquor ores, except for PEI.

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