Bootleggers & Blind Pigs: How Vancouver Beat Prohibition
About this Event
📍Location: LOCAL Public Eatery
🧠Lecture: "Bootlegger & Blind Pigs: How Vancouver Beat Prohibition"
🎤Speaker: Will Woods
🎟️Tickets are limited
Think Prohibition was just a US thing? Think again.
Join Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours Founder and Chief Storyteller Will Woods as he serves up the dirt on one of the strangest social experiments in BC history, and how its vibrations still resonate in Vancouver today.
From tales of powerful mob bosses and corrupt government officials to dare-devil rum runners and "Dry Squad" detectives, you'll discover who the winners and the losers were in Prohibition-era Vancouver and why it all came crashing down in the end.
💡About Will Woods
Originally from London in the UK, Will Woods has made Vancouver home for the past twenty years. He founded Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours in 2012 with a mission to share Vancouver's most interesting histories, combining thorough historical research with theatrical storytelling. Will has written about Vancouver history for the Daily Hive, Vancouver Courier, and Westender, and has appeared on both CBC and CityTV. He is on the board of the Vancouver Historical Society and on behalf of his company, in 2019, he received the prestigious Heritage Medal of Honour from the City of Vancouver.
https://forbiddenvancouver.ca
Join us for a night with Vancouver’s bootleggers, blind pigs, and the city they helped shape. Tickets are limited so be sure to save your seat!
🕝 Schedule
6:00 PM: Doors open - find a seat (open seating!), grab a drink and some food, and settle in
6:30 PM: Host introduction
6:45 PM: Lecture begins
7:30 PM: Audience Q&A
7:45 PM: Chat with the speaker 1:1, mingle with fellow attendees, and continue the discussion over another round
8:30: Wrap up
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 27.96
