Moose Jaw, Canada Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

MOOSE JAW , 70km west of Regina, was founded as a railway depot in 1882 and is now Saskatchewan's fourth largest city, with 35,000 inhabitants – a number that has remained almost static since the 1940s. It achieved some notoriety during Prohibition in the 1920s, when liquor was smuggled south by car or by train along the Soo Line, which ran from Moose Jaw to Chicago. For most locals this period of bootleggers, gangsters, gamblers and "boozoriums" – liquor warehouses – was not a happy one, and for years various schemes to attract tourists by developing the "Roaring … more »