The subject of alcohol is rather wide ranging and can incorporate a number of issues and interests. Here are a few links and resources that can be used to follow up on particular topics.

Please contact the Manager Food and Beverage Services if there particular subjects which interest you.

Alcohol and Society:

Alcohol use has implications not only for individuals but for communities and society at large. In addition to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the two organizations listed below provide detailed information on issues concerning the effectiveness of public policy on curtailing the more harmful aspects of alcohol use.

Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse www.ccsa.ca

Alcohol Policy Research Network www.apolnet.ca

Attitudes towards alcohol have changed over the years. The Canadian experience with alcohol use from the perspective of social, economic and political history has been documented and discussed in the following recommended readings:

“Tavern in the Town: Early Inns and Taverns of Ontario”

Margaret McBurney and Mary Byers

University of Toronto Press 1987

“The Boys and Their Booze: Masculinities and Public Drinking in Working Class Hamilton, 1890-1946”

              Craig Heron

              Canadian Historical Review, 86, no 3

              (September 2005), 411-52

“Booze in Canada: A History”

Craig Heron

Toronto, Between the Lines 2003