Canada dry: temperance crusades before Confederation.
Urban History Review, March, 1997
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. Pp. vii, 310. Illustrations. Price? paper.
One of the many pleasures gained from reading Jan Noel's prize-winning history of the temperance movement in pre-Confederation British North America is coming to know some of the prominent temperance pioneers who directed and shaped the movement in various parts of the colonies. One such captivating portrait is drawn of the Reverend Joseph Stibbs Christmas, pastor of Montreal's American Presbyterian Church and founder, in 1828, of Montreal's first (interdenominational) temperance society. Noel's description of Christmas -- a learned man with a sensitive, poetic temperament, a firebrand who "stirred up a furious press controversy with intemperate criticism of long dead popes"...
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