Bootlegging in canada
Bootlegging or Rum running was the ban of both buying and selling any alcohol during the prohibition. Once this law took place it immediately triggered and a whole new type criminal activity called “bootlegging” was formed to make more money. “Bootlegging” was an underground system where criminals made or stored illegal liquor that they had imported and then sold the alcohol over priced from what they bought it from. Once the bootleggers got there liquor into the country they would run underground bars were called drinking clubs known as speakeasies. Bootleggers would bribe the cops to let them transfer the liquor from place to place. They would use "speeders" to transfer the alcohol from place to place, speeders were not very big, and did not travel very fast. Its name speeders because it would travel faster than any human-powered vehicles. They would smuggle alcohol into the bars without the cops finding out. Many bootleggers from other countries would buy liquor from Canada and sell it back in there home countries because liquor countries would go out of business because of the prohibition.