proving health and decreasing crime.The fall of prohibition started in 1921 when British Columbia and the Yukon totally abandoned prohibition and following them was Ontario, the Prairies, in 1921 and Newfoundland followed in 1925, New Brunswick in 1927, Nova Scotia in 1929, and Prince Edward Island in 1948. Government control was a major reason why people abandoned prohibition and the lies that were said that it prevented crime and poverty and disease. The lack of funding of social events is another cause of the collapse of prohibition.All in all prohibition proved out to be a lost cause, it did not work out well for the society or the economy of Canada, it was an effort put forward by people that thought strongly about prohibition in an effort to purify the society as a whole and start a new economy that peoples will put more money into the economy. Prohibition did not work at all. It just made crime rise, like bootlegging and smuggling liquor. But they might as well face it, the people wanted to drink and the government wanted money....
