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WOLF’S BOAT TOP
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Leif Wolf - 810.841.4406 winter. Before the “Tunnel” between Wind-
sor & Detroit was constructed, according to
the Walter P. Reuther Library Archives, the
Happy 150th Birthday Canada… AND, 100 years ago, the area was known as the Windsor – Detroit “Funnel.” 75%
Canadians and Michiganders became much closer when percent of all the alcohol smuggled into the United States
in 1917, Michigan’s Liquor Prohibition went into effect. during Prohibition crossed the border here. By 1929 rum
Bootlegged liquor was smuggled across the Detroit Riv- running was Detroit’s second largest industry (automo-
er, the Lake St. Clair waterways, and across the ice in the tive #1). In 1933 Michigan reversed its prohibition laws.

Reprinted with permission
Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of
Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

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