Interested

Just out of interest where do you buy your booze in different provinces ?

Here in Ontario we have the LCBO (liquor control board of Ontario) and some of the grocery stores have little Canadian wine only outlets. I know in Quebec they can sell it just about anywhere.

What about the other provinces ? Oh how I miss going to the supermarket in the UK which was always fully stocked, lol.

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daisymoll

We can only buy it from the Nova Scotia Liquor Commission and a couple of other places.

Bit of a pain when they are all shut on Sundays though.

Oh well, life in Nova Scotia eh?

I think that ight change soon with the new minority government etc...

Smokey

Liquor stores in Sask too but ours are open on a Sunday. No wine outlets either. When I told my neighbour about buying booze from Tesco's it caused mirth for hours! (I'm still not entirely sure why either)

Purley

Does anyone know why the government still maintains this archaic way of selling liquor? Is it so they have control over the taxes or something? Still, you would think wherever they sold it, the government could still take their cut.

At least its better than it used to be. When we first came here over 30 years ago you had to go to this terrible place and there were bits of paper and pencils. I forgot how you know what they sold but anyway all the bottles were hidden away and you went to the counter with your piece of paper and they gave you the bottle.

I couldnt believe it!!!

TimEh?

When I came to Alberta over 30 years ago everything involving liquor was archaic. Booze was only sold in government-run liquor stores (and continued so until just a few years ago) and the drinking establishments were terrible:

Only hotels offered places to drink and they mostly consisted of very large beer-hall type establishments with separate entrances – one for Males and one for Females and Escorts (no single women allowed). The beer served was raw draught at 10 cents a glass – awful stuff.

Things are vastly better now with nice English and Irish-style pubs, micro breweries and privately-run liquor outlets. I don’t mind the grocery stores not selling booze myself (although Superstore has an outlet next to the main stores). After all, there’s loads of liquor outlets nowadays.

TimEh?

A little beer hall anecdote:

One of the downtown hotels I sometimes visited in the late 60s was pretty rough. One time my English pal and I were sitting at a table next to a very drunken businessman in a tie and suit. Along comes this Indian, whips out a knife, and slices off the businessman's tie just below the knot, walking off chuckling to himself. The drunk never even stirred.

Purley

Sounds like the same as here. I still think it would be nice if we could buy wine etc. at the grocery stores.

Corky

When we first moved to Ontario, we used to get this little piece of paper and write the number down of the bottle that you wanted, they were all behind a counter and all had a number, wonder if it is still like that. That was in the liquor store in Keswick. The other thing that used to bug us is having to go to a seperate store for beer. Now in Nova Scotia it is all in one store. You can also go to Cape Breton and find a bootlegger who will sell you moonshine.

TimEh?

At one time, you had to go to a seperate store (few and far between) to get cold beer.

Never did like Canadian or US beer myself but nowadays there's some really good micro brewery stuff around and loads of imports that are not too much more than the domestic. At Superstore you can get half a dozen Newcastle for less than six domestic beers at the small outlets.