Everyone knows about the Prohibition in the United States, the several year-long “noble experiment,” as President Herbert Hoover, who signed it into law, called it. Fewer know that American’s neighbor to the north, Canada, had a Prohibition of its own at the turn of the century, and that it lasted for a great deal longer than the American one.

On this day, May 21, in 1925, the Canadian province of Newfoundland became one of the last provinces to legalize the sale of beer. It was not the end of the Canadian Prohibition, which started with the Canada Temperance Act in 1878, but it another nail in the coffin.

The Canadian Prohibition was a lot less strict than the American one. Rather than a nationwide ban on all liquor sales, the Temperance Act made it a provincial decision to participate or not. Even then, the bans had many exceptions and loopholes, such as medicinal or religious use — so a shocking amount of people suddenly claimed illness around the holidays and lined up for “medicinal pints.”