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British Columbia History (Digital)

1 Issue, 56.2 Summer 2023

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WHISKY AND WATER The spirited ventures of Jimmy Detweiler, BC's last rum-runner

WHISKY AND WATER The spirited ventures of Jimmy Detweiler, BC's last rum-runner
James “Jimmy” Longmore Detweiler had criss-crossed North America since the dawn of the twentieth century, chasing opportunities for adventure and fortune. His August 1919 homecoming to Vancouver’s Coal Harbour was shrewdly calculated. Dreams of an impending, unsurpassable golden (liquid) opportunity-rum-running-circulated in the salted air of this floating village and would soon be taken to sea. More whisky a-go-go, than rum-running, the business involved smuggling alcohol by ship to the United States, into a quenchless, black market.1 That demand was ignited by the US Congress’s enactment of the National Prohibition (Volstead) Act, on January 17, 1920.2 Like trying to stop a torrent with a rake, wife Hannah could only watch as Jimmy hit the water running. Lucrative, exhilarating, secretive, seductive, rum-running became Jimmy’s mistress. Not a clandestine affair: Hannah knew things,…
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